Beschreibung:
The water-gaps of the river Aude near Minerve (Aude, France). This analysis of some peculiarities of the river Aude valley in Languedoc is mainly devoted to its defile through the Bassanel anticline. Through evidences from five successive alluvial terraces and the existence of some depressions explained by wind-erosion, the author demonstrates that it was during the final Riss period that the Aude flew through the Bassanel gap which had been previously cut by the Ognon and he explains that the diversion was more facilitated by the previous wind-erosion period than by any neotectonic change of the regional structural geology.