Sedimentary Evolution
(Note: Permo-Triassic basins like the Brive Basin and the Grésigne Basin are considered to belong to the basement of the Massif Central.)
Structural and sedimentological investigations of the basin have been carried out in over 70 drilled wells that encountered the Variscan basement sometimes below 6,000 m of sedimentary cover.
The sedimentary evolution in the Aquitaine Basin begins in the Lower Triassic close to the North Pyrenean Thrust. From here, it slowly started spreading farther north.
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