Deep-Water Sedimentation in the Alpine Basin of SE France / Глубоководная седиментация в альпийских бассейнах (юго-восток Франции)

The Gres d'Annot (Annot Sandstone) Formation of SE France includes some of the world's best exposures of sandy turbidites and has been the source of highly influential models of turbidite system development. This formation is now considered as a model example of a tectonically-controlled confined turbiditic ramp, and the Gres d'Annot outcrops constitute a classic area for academic and industrial field courses on deep-water gravity flow deposits. From the early 1930s, the focus of research on these extensive exposures has moved progressively from lithostratigraphy and structural interpretation to sedimentology, seismic-scale architecture of turbidite bodies, evaluation of tectonic controls, and more recently to detailed characterization of the turbidite units as hydrocarbon reservoir analogues <...>