Deformation Layer 8 at Nahal Darga occurs in unit 10 and is dated by Enzel et al. (2000) to ca. 450-50 BCE (ca. 2400-2000 yr B.P.). The deformed bed is ~20 cm thick and consists of fine to medium sand with a few laminae of aragonite deposited in a near-shore fan-delta setting. The principal deformation features include flame structures with some load casts and a minor amount of ball-and-pillow structures within an "intensely deformed bed." The deformation is beleived to have occurred when the sediment was at or very near the surface and the structures are interpreted as due to earthquake-induced liquefaction. Dating is based on radiocarbon dating and stratigraphic correlation within the fan-delta sequence; Bayesian modeling was not used in the age determinations.