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Article Dans Une Revue Earth and Planetary Science Letters Année : 2023

Miocene cave sediments record topographic, erosional and drainage development in the Western European Alps

François Lemot
Peter van der Beek
Marianna Jagercikova
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Samuel Niedermann
Julien Carcaillet
Edward R Sobel
Sergio Andò
Eduardo Garzanti
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Xavier Robert
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Mélanie Balvay
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Matthias Bernet
Johannes Glodny

Résumé

The dynamic Neogene evolution of the Western European Alps included exhumation of the external crystalline massifs, thrust propagation to the foreland, drainage network reorganization, and major climatic variations. To constrain possible interactions between those factors, accurate geomorphological and sedimentological archives are required. However, intra-orogenic areas are multi-method results from these sediments, including cosmogenic-nuclide burial dating (21 Ne, 10 Be, 26 Al in quartz), provenance analysis (clast petrography and heavy-mineral analysis), and detrital thermochronology (apatite fission-track and (U-Th)/He) combined with a paleo-environmental reconstruction from palynology. 21 Ne/ 10 Be dating of cobbles and sand constrains the burial age to 11.5 ± 1.5 Ma, providing a maximum age for the modern axial drainage system and a minimum longterm incision rate of ∼140 m/Myr for the Drac valley. Comparison of the combined data to both modern rivers and nearby Oligocene foreland-basin deposits provides evidence for two successive drainage reorganizations. Early Miocene exhumation and development of high topography in the Ecrins-Pelvoux massif, linked to localized thrusting on a crustal-scale ramp, led to initial deflection of the antecedent radial drainage network, beheading its headwaters by establishment of the axial upper Durance valley. Subsequent propagation of thrusting into the subalpine Dévoluy massif and associated uplift during the mid to late Miocene led to establishment of the modern drainage system.
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hal-04229664 , version 1 (05-10-2023)

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François Lemot, Pierre G Valla, Peter van der Beek, Marianna Jagercikova, Samuel Niedermann, et al.. Miocene cave sediments record topographic, erosional and drainage development in the Western European Alps. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2023, 621, pp.118344. ⟨10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118344⟩. ⟨hal-04229664⟩
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