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Géomorphologie : relief, processus, environnement - Année 1996 - Volume 2 - Numéro 1 - Pages 23-49Résumé Des recherches ont été entreprises sur la fragmentation des marnes dans les ravines des Baronnies. La décompression superficielle pourrait expliquer la fragmentation initiale de la roche compacte telle qu'on l'observe, après denudation de celle-ci, dans des fosses abritées de l'action directe des agents atmosphériques. L'eau joue un rôle essentiel dans la comminution des débris engendrés par cette fragmentation primaire et, par conséquent, sur l'ablation et l'allégement de la couverture détritique. Comme celui-ci retentit mécaniquement sur la facilité d'ouverture des fissures de la roche sous-jacente, l'action superficielle de l'eau contrôle ainsi de manière rétroactive le processus de désagrégation en profondeur. La sensibilité à l'hydroclastie des débris des marnes oxfordiennes et gargasiennes, les secondes pourtant nettement plus calcaires, expliquerait la rapidité de leur érosion, par rapport à celle des marnes cénomaniennes. Ces différences de sensibilité sont à rechercher dans l'histoire pétrographique des marnes, y compris certaines microstructures à découvrir.
Abstract Research has been undertaken on the disintegration of marls in the gullies of the Baronnies Mountains. Release of surface pressure might explain the initial disintegration of cohesive rock, as observed after surface erosion of the latter, in trenches protected from the direct action of weathering agents. Water plays an essential role in the comminution of debris resulting from this incipient disintegration, and thus in the denudation of the rock-mantle and the relief of the load on it. Since this has a mechanical effect on the extent of joint widening in the underlying rock, the action of water on the surface makes it possible to retrospectively monitor the process of disintegration within. The rapid erosion of both oxfordian and gargasian marls, even though the latter have a much higher calcium carbonate content than the former, is much more rapid than that of cenomanian marls, and can probably be explained by their propensity to disintegrate through hydration. Differences in the levels of sensitivity to such disintegration no doubt lie in the petrological history of the marls, possibly in certain microstructures which have yet to be discovered.
27 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
Abstract Research has been undertaken on the disintegration of marls in the gullies of the Baronnies Mountains. Release of surface pressure might explain the initial disintegration of cohesive rock, as observed after surface erosion of the latter, in trenches protected from the direct action of weathering agents. Water plays an essential role in the comminution of debris resulting from this incipient disintegration, and thus in the denudation of the rock-mantle and the relief of the load on it. Since this has a mechanical effect on the extent of joint widening in the underlying rock, the action of water on the surface makes it possible to retrospectively monitor the process of disintegration within. The rapid erosion of both oxfordian and gargasian marls, even though the latter have a much higher calcium carbonate content than the former, is much more rapid than that of cenomanian marls, and can probably be explained by their propensity to disintegrate through hydration. Differences in the levels of sensitivity to such disintegration no doubt lie in the petrological history of the marls, possibly in certain microstructures which have yet to be discovered.
27 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.
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01 janvier 1996
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