... tectonics rifting sea-floor spreading sedimentary basins sedimentation Southern Europe subsidence tectonics tectonophysics Tethys unconformities Upper Jurassic Var France Ventoux-Lure Massif Vocontian Basin Western Alps Western Europe ...

... the Ventoux-Lure thrust zone in Provence during the Miocene. Southward, this gravity sliding vanishes approaching the E-W trending structural high of the Eocene Pyrénéo-Provençal orogenic belt in southern Provence. Located between the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Hercynian basement of the Massif...

... been used to document for the first time in considerable detail the existence of a 140 by 200 km large and 12 km thick Mesozoic basin between the Durance fault to the east and the Cévennes fault to the west. This basin extends to the north of the Lure-Ventoux mountain below the Diois-Baronnies area...

.... Montenat C. Ott d’Estevou P. ( 1992 ). – Evènements tectoniques crétacés dans la partie méridionale du bassin subalpin (massif Ventoux-Lure et partie orientale de l’arc de Castellane, SE France). Implications géodynamiques . – Bull. Soc. géol. Fr. , 163, 2 , 147 – 158 . Homberg C. Hu...

... in recent time by radial collapse of the Alps. The incipient stage of this gravity sliding occurred during the Late Oligocene in the Diois-Baronnies (the former Mesozoic Vocontian basin), and then rapidly progressed to the south across the Ventoux-Lure thrust zone in Provence during the Miocene. Guillou...

..., La Fare). North-verging structures exist to the east of the MDF (e.g. Sainte Baume, Sainte Victoire) and to the west of the SCF (e.g. Istres, Anelier thrusts). This indicates that these two faults are major transfer faults [e.g., Molliex, 2009 ]. The Mont Ventoux-Montagne de Lure ridge...

... of Baronnies, where central massifs of the Lure anticline or monoclinal ridges of the northern limb of the anticlinal Ventoux Massif regenerate. When folded mountains form, the upper layered tectonic plate reduces (is heaped) at the cost of transportation of rock volumes to the upper free half-space...

...-Alpilles 5.5 785 5 Ventoux-Lure 5.5 685 5 psha easily enables the consideration of a hypothesis based on the input assumptions of the seismicity model, such as the size and the recurrence of maximum magnitude of each source. We studied the possibility of integrating the occurrence...

... and Stahel (1995) , Ritz (1991) , Lickorish and Ford (1998) . Pliocene data were from Ritz (1991) and Champion et al. (2000) , whereas Quaternary data were from Ritz (1991) . Abbreviations are the same as in Figure 1 except CA—Castellane arc, V-L—Ventoux-Lure fault, Dur.—Durence fault, Lub.—Luberon...

... calcareous nannofossils and stable isotopes .” Tübinger Mikropaléontologische Mitteilungen , 27 . Hibsch C. , Kandel D. , Montenat C. & Ott D’Estevou P. ( 1992 ). “ Evénements tectoniques crétacés dans la partie méridionale du bas-sin subalpin (massif Ventoux-Lure et...

...: Cevennes fault, NF: Nîmes fault, MDF: Moyenne Durance fault, NCFS: Northeast Cévennes Fault System, VF: Valence fault, VT: Vercors thrust, LT: Lance thrust, VLT: Ventoux-Lure thrust, LuT: Luberon thrust, DN: Digne nappe, S.S: Saou syncline, S.A: Saou anticline, D.S: Dieulet syncline, P.A: Puygiron...

... . – Thèse Sci. , Aix-Marseille Université, Centre Saint-Charles , Marseille , 252 p. Hibsch C. Kandel D. Montenat C. Ott D’estevou P. ( 1992 ). – Evénements tectoniques crétacés dans la partie méridionale du bassin subalpin (massif Ventoux-Lure et partie occidentale de l’Arc de...

... crétacés dans la partie méridionale du bassin subalpin (massif Ventoux-Lure et partie orientale de l’arc de Castellane, SE France); implications géodynamiques. l’Eocène .” Bull. Soc. géol. Fr ., ( 2 ), 163 , 147 – 158 Hippolyte J.C. & Dumont T. ( 2000 ). “ Identification...

... and thus less influence from the Durance fault. This may be due to the important compartmentation of the region. The Sorine diapir and the St-Geniez series are located at the intersection of two inherited basement faults, the east–west-trending Ventoux–Lure fault and the NE–SWW-trending Durance fault (e.g...

... C. ( 1980 ). “ La Provence . Introduction à la géologie du sud-est. In: 26 e CGI, Paris . Hibsh C. , Kandel D. , Montenat C. & Ott D’estevou P. ( 1992 ). “ Evénements tectoniques crétacés dans la partie méridionale du bassin subalpin (massif de Ventoux-Lure...

... ). – The geometry of a deformed carbonate slope-basin transition: The Ventoux-Lure fault zone, SE France . – Tectonics , 14 , 1393 – 1410 . Fournier M. , Agard Ph. & Petit C. ( 2008 ). – Micro-tectonic constraints on the evolution of the Barles half-window (Digne nappe, southern Alps...

... ; Manchuel et al. , 2018 ; Bollinger et al. , 2021 ). In addition, the region shows ancient surface ruptures (paleoseismic) identified on the Nîmes Fault, the Ventoux Lure thrust and the La Rouvière Fault ( Ritz et al. , 2021 , Bellier et al. , 2021 ), evidence for its past and probably significant...

... to the termination of the continental shelf ( i.e. pre-Vocontian settings sensu Frau et al. , 2018 ) and is mostly characterised by fine-grained calcisiltite facies ( Tabs. 2 and 4 ). The Vocontian Basin sensu stricto is located further seaward and delineated by major faulting systems ( e.g. Ventoux–Lure...