12th Meeting of the International Nannoplankton Association (Lyon, September 7-10, 2008) Guidebook for the post-congress fieldtrip in the Vocontian Basin, SE France (September 11-13, 2008) Emanuela MATTIOLI (special editor), Silvia GARDIN, Fabienne GIRAUD, Davide OLIVERO, Bernard PITTET & Stéphane REBOULET ISBN 978-2-916733-02-9 Dépôt légal à parution Manuscrit en ligne depuis le 7 Septembre 2008 Manuscript online since September 7, 2008 Carnets de Géologie / Notebooks on Geology - Book 2008/01 (CG2008_BOOK_01) Guidebook for the post-congress fieldtrip in the Vocontian Basin, SE France (September 11-13, 2008) Emanuela MATTIOLI (special editor) 1,2, Silvia GARDIN 3, Fabienne GIRAUD 1, Davide OLIVERO 1, Bernard PITTET 1 & Stéphane REBOULET 1 1 UMR 5125 PEPS (CNRS), Université Lyon 1, Campus de la DOUA, Bâtiment Géode, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex (France) 2
[email protected] 3 UMR 5143 (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6, 75013 Paris (France) Manuscript online since September 7, 2008 1 Carnets de Géologie / Notebooks on Geology - Book 2008/01 (CG2008_BOOK_01) Chapter 1. The Aalenian-Bajocian northward, with many hiatuses (JAUTÉE, 1984). (Middle Jurassic) of the Digne Basinal facies, represented by marl-limestone alternations, are recorded in the southernmost area areas but in the sector south of the Verdon Davide OLIVERO with the contribution of River a shallow-water platform developed, Emanuela MATTIOLI documented by the occurrence of bioclastic limestones with corals. This development is Geographical and geological context evidence of a progressive extension to the Provence platform southward. The Digne area is located in southeastern France (Fig. 1.1), in the department of "Alpes In the Middle Jurassic, the central part of the de Haute-Provence".