Bresse Graben
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- N/A
- Color RGB
- R: 245 G: 240 B: 240
- Rank
- tectonic subdomain
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Bresse-Graben
- Français
- Graben de la Bresse
- Italiano
- Graben della Bresse
- English
- Bresse Graben
- Origin of the Name
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Bresse (France)
- Historical Variants
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fossé de Bresse, fossé de la Bresse, fossé bressan, Bressegraben, fossé tectonique bressan (Rémond 1985), plaine bressane (Gardet 1942), Graben de la Bresse (Sommaruga 1997), Bresse Depression (Becker 2000), fosso bressano, Bresse Graben (Gouffon et al. 2024), Fosso della Bresse
Description
- Description
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Fossé d'effondrement (rift) néogène de l'avant-pays nordalpin autochtone, faisant partie des grabens du Massif Central.
Age
- Age at top
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- Neogene
- Age at base
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- Mesozoic
Geography
- Geographical extent
- SE France
Palaenography and tectonic
- Paleogeography
- European continental plate
- Kind of protolith
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- tectonic
References
- Definition
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(2024) :
Tectonic Map of Switzerland 1:500000, Explanatory notes. Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, Wabern
p.19: The Bresse Graben is entirely located in France and stretches roughly from Lyon to Dijon with a N–S orientation. A NE–SW oriented extension reaches the northwestern corner of the map area and is clearly separated from the Haute-Saône Platform by NNE–SSW to NE–SW oriented normal faults. The Bresse Graben is part of the European Cenozoic Rift System (Illies 1972, Hinsken et al. 2007), is ca. 35–60 km wide and filled with Paleogene–Neogene sediments which are up to 2 km thick (Chauve et al. 1980, Rocher et al. 2003).