Mareuil Anticline
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The Mareuil Anticline, also called Mareuil-Meyssac Anticline, is a structural high within the sedimentary sequence of the northeastern Aquitaine Basin. The northwest-southeast trending anticline was c
A cross-section through the Mareuil Anticline with vertical exaggeration
The northwestern edge of the Mareuil Anticline. The Turonian (Angoumian) cliff is dipping 35° to the NNE.
Ligérian
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The Ligérian is a regional geological substage of the Turonian. It designates sediments of the Lower Turonian in western France.
Mareuil Anticline
…alveoline-bearing limestones. The Cenomanian is concordantly overlain by 55–65 m of Turonian strata divided into the nodular, chalky limestones of the Ligérian and the rudist-bearing limestones of the Angoumian. This is followed by 50–65 m of Coniacian — mainly hard, fossiliferous limestones. The sequence…
Flat-lying Ligérian in the Nizonne valley, near Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier
Horizontal slickolites in Ligérian near Mareuil
Pressure cone from Quinsac