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Chronology of thrust propagation from an updated tectono-sedimentary framework of the Miocene molasse (western Alps)
Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, Terre Planètes et Environement, Univ Lyon 1, ENSL, CNRS, LGL-TPE, 69622 Villeurbanne,
France
Total SA, CSTJF, Avenue Larribeau, 64000 Pau, France
Philippe Hervé Leloup
Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, Terre Planètes et Environement, Univ Lyon 1, ENSL, CNRS, LGL-TPE, 69622 Villeurbanne,
France
Philippe Sorrel
Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, Terre Planètes et Environement, Univ Lyon 1, ENSL, CNRS, LGL-TPE, 69622 Villeurbanne,
France
Albert Galy
CRPG, 15 rue Notre Dames des Pauvres, 54500 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
François Demory
Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IRD, INRAE, Coll France, CEREGE,
Aix-en-Provence, France
Vincenzo Spina
Total SA, CSTJF, Avenue Larribeau, 64000 Pau, France
Bastien Huet
Total SA, CSTJF, Avenue Larribeau, 64000 Pau, France
Frédéric Quillévéré
Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, Terre Planètes et Environement, Univ Lyon 1, ENSL, CNRS, LGL-TPE, 69622 Villeurbanne,
France
Frédéric Ricciardi
Total SA, CSTJF, Avenue Larribeau, 64000 Pau, France
Daniel Michoux
Total SA, CSTJF, Avenue Larribeau, 64000 Pau, France
Kilian Lecacheur
Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, Terre Planètes et Environement, Univ Lyon 1, ENSL, CNRS, LGL-TPE, 69622 Villeurbanne,
France
Romain Grime
Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, Terre Planètes et Environement, Univ Lyon 1, ENSL, CNRS, LGL-TPE, 69622 Villeurbanne,
France
Bernard Pittet
Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, Terre Planètes et Environement, Univ Lyon 1, ENSL, CNRS, LGL-TPE, 69622 Villeurbanne,
France
deceased
Jean-Loup Rubino
Total SA, CSTJF, Avenue Larribeau, 64000 Pau, France
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Short summary
Molasse deposits, deposited and deformed at the western Alpine front during the Miocene (23 to 5.6 Ma), record the chronology of that deformation. We combine the first precise chronostratigraphy (precision of ∼0.5 Ma) of the Miocene molasse, the reappraisal of the regional structure, and the analysis of growth deformation structures in order to document three tectonic phases and the precise chronology of thrust westward propagation during the second one involving the Belledonne basal thrust.
Molasse deposits, deposited and deformed at the western Alpine front during the Miocene (23 to...
