Geology of Languedoc edit
The main elements of the geology and relief of the Languedoc region are:
- to the north, the Montagne Noire, which is the southernmost part of the Massif Central, a large region of mainly Palaeozoic rocks occupying the central upland area of France, itself a small part of the Variscan orogenic belt
- In the centre, an east-west trending basin filled with sediments of Cretaceous to Quaternary age
- to the south, the Pyrenees, a double mountain belt, partly created during the late-Palaeozoic Variscan mountain-building event, and partly during the younger Alpine orogeny.
Geography edit
The Languedoc was historically much more extensive. It is part of the modern administrative region of Languedoc-Roussillon, comprising the départements of Pyrénées-Orientales, Aude, Hérault, Gard and Lozère.
The Montagne Noire edit
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The Languedoc Foreland Basin edit
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The Northern Pyrenees edit
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