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Louvie-Soubiron Marble: Heritage Stone in the French Pyrenean Ossau Valley—First Evidence of the Roman Trans-Pyrenean Use
The historical character of the Louvie-Soubiron marble quarry, in the French Pyrenean Ossau Valley, has been brought to light through a combined...
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Peri-Gondwanan Blocks in the Structure of the Southern and Southeastern Framing of the East European Platform
AbstractSynthesis of the results of U–Pb dating of detrital zircons (dZr) from the Uppermost Precambrian–Phanerozoic strata of the southern and...
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A unique middle Miocene (Sarmatian) fish fauna from coastal deposits in the eastern Pannonian Basin (Romania)
Based on a total of 161 otoliths, a unique teleost fauna is described from the middle Miocene in the eastern Pannonian Basin. The section studied is...
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Setting Sustainable Abstraction Limits in Confined Aquifers: Example from Deep Confined Aquifers in the Bordeaux Region, France
This chapter describes the management of the deep aquifers in the Gironde Department of south-western France, which supply drinking water to the City...
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Groundwater in France: Resources, Use and Management Issues
This chapter describes the status of groundwater resources in France. French geology consists of a large variety of rock types, resulting in very...
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Proximity Indicator Minerals
The ore accumulations leave their trails in far more bigger area than occupied by the ore deposit itself. The expanse covered by the mineralogical...
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Alpine Foreland Basins
This chapter deals with the two Alpine Foreland Basins of the Iberian Peninsula. The first part of the chapter refers to the South Pyrenean Foreland...
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Linking Wine Culture and Geoheritage—Missing Opportunities at European UNESCO World Heritage Sites and in UNESCO Global Geoparks? A Survey of Web-Based Resources
Vine cultivation is strongly dependent on local terrain conditions, including geology, landforms and soils. This offers an opportunity to develop...
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Antler working by the last European Pleistocene hunter-gatherers of Santimamiñe cave (Northern Iberian Peninsula): technological implications of osseous equipment during the Magdalenian
This paper assesses the exploitation of osseous raw materials, namely antler, used by hunter-gatherer populations in the Late Upper Palaeolithic of...
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Quantification and possible causes of declining groundwater resources in the Euro-Mediterranean region from 2003 to 2020
Groundwater resources in Euro-Mediterranean countries provide a large part of the population’s water supply and are affected to varying degrees by...
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Reference Section of the Campanian Stage of the Southwestern Crimea: Problems of Substage Subdivision and Global Correlation
Abstract —Stratigraphy of Campanian deposits in the stratotype of the Kudrinskaya Formation in the Southwestern Crimea is revised. For the first time,...
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The CO2 Dynamics in the Continuum Atmosphere-Soil-Epikarst and Its Impact on the Karstification Potential of Water: A Case Study of the Lascaux Cave Site (Montignac, France)
The aim of this work was to understand the dynamics of CO2 in the atmosphere-soil-epikarst continuum of the Lascaux Cave site and to evaluate its...
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Ammonites, Microfauna, and Palynomorphs from the Lower Part of the Upper Bajocian Parkinsoni Zone of the Basin of the Bolshoi Zelenchuk River, Northern Caucasus
This paper contains the results of a comprehensive study of the standard Rarecostites subarietis Subzone of the upper Bajocian Parkinsonia parkinsoni...
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Neogene Regional Scale of the Eastern Paratethys, Stratigraphy and Paleontological Basis
AbstractThe stratigraphic scale of the Eastern Paratethys is revised based on a study of the Neogene stratotype and reference sections, their biotic...
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Subsidence Analysis
This chapter introduces three subsidence analysis models which are total subsidence, tectonic subsidence and post-rift thermal subsidence. The three...
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Detrital Thermochronology Using Conglomerates and Cobbles
Detrital thermochronology data from cobbles, either within modern sediments or basin stratigraphy, can provide excellent constraints on the...
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Between new and inherited technical behaviours: a case study from the Early Middle Palaeolithic of Southern France
The beginning of the Middle Palaeolithic in Western Europe is traditionally associated with the emergence of new, more complex and standardised...
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Integration of Neutron-Based Elemental Analysis and Imaging to Characterize Complex Cultural Heritage Objects
Prompt-gamma activation analysis (PGAA), a nondestructive, neutron-based bulk elemental analysis method, has been actively used for more than...
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Non-metallurgical iron ore trade in the Roman Mediterranean: an initial synthesis of provenance and use in the case of imperial Colonia Narbo Martius (Narbonne, Aude, France)
Since prehistoric times, iron ore has been traded to be used for various purposes as in medicines, pigments, and cosmetics. This non-metallurgical...
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Intercontinental response to variations in the Arabia-Eurasia Plate convergence, calcite e-twin evidence of the Kuhbanan Fault system, Central Iran
Variations in the plate convergence direction have generally reflected on the kinematics of the major fault zones developed in the intercontinental...