This Accepted Author Manuscript (AAM) is copyrighted and published by Elsevier. It is posted here by agreement between Elsevier and the University of Turin. Changes resulting from the publishing process - such as editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms - may not be reflected in this version of the text. The definitive version of the text was subsequently published in Sedimentary Geology, Vol. 251-252, 2012, doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.01.012 You may download, copy and otherwise use the AAM for non-commercial purposes provided that your license is limited by the following restrictions: (1) You may use this AAM for non-commercial purposes only under the terms of the CC-BY-NC- ND license. (2) The integrity of the work and identification of the author, copyright owner, and publisher must be preserved in any copy. (3) You must attribute this AAM in the following format: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en), [ + Digital Object Identifier link to the published journal article on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect® platform ] 1 Kilometre-scale palaeoescarpments as evidence for Cretaceous synsedimentary tectonics in the External Briançonnais Domain (Ligurian Alps, Italy) Carlo Bertok a*, Luca Martire a, Elena Perotti a, Anna d’Atri a, Fabrizio Piana b a Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Torino, via Valperga Caluso 35, 10125 Torino, Italy b CNR, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, unità di Torino, via Valperga Caluso 35, 10125 Torino, Italy *Corresponding author. e-mail address:
[email protected] phone : +39 011 6705335 fax : +39 011 6705339 ABSTRACT In the central part of the External Ligurian Briançonnais in the Ligurian Alps (NW Italy), a large and diverse set of stratigraphic, sedimentologic and petrographic data provides evidence for the occurrence of Cretaceous kilometre-scale palaeoescarpments.