Project

Sedimentation and deformation in a wrench tectonic context. The Lower Palaeozoic Plougastel Formation: the key to a better understanding of Variscan geodynamics in the Central Armorican domain, Brittany, France.

Code

3G037609

Duration

01 January 2009 → 31 December 2014

Funding

Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Jacques Verniers

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Geology
- Geophysics

Keywords

slump deformation crozon

Project description

In deformation belts it may be extremely difficult to distinguish hard-rock deformation featurers, formed after lithification, from soft-sediment deformation features formed at or directly below the sea floor. The Plougastel Formation (Brittany) contains pre-lithification deformation features and extends from a virtually undeformed area with intense post-lithification deformation, this allowing distinction between pre- and post-lithification deformation.