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The Charente karst basin of the Touvre: alteration of the Jurassic series and speleogenesis by ghost-rock process
Dandurand, Grégory; Dubois, Caroline; Maire, Richard et al.
2014In Geologica Belgica, 17 (1), p. 27-32
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Abstract :
[en] The Jurassic limestone of the North-eastern part of the Aquitain Basin (Angoulême, Charente, France) provide evidence of the prominent role of the ghost-rock process from the study of three quarries, drillings and the discovering of a young cave called 'La Fuie' (Chasseneuil-sur-Bonnieure). This alteration process explains the genesis of maze caves and also the complexity of the Touvre aquifer which supplies the city of Angoulême. Indeed the large water reserve is situated into the porous rock (slow drainage) constituted by ghost-rocks while a small part is drained by the karst conduits (fast drainage coming from river losses). Moreover, for the first time a speleogenesis by ghost-rock process is demonstrated in a young and active subterranean network in Charente. La Fuie Cave, discovered during road works, was used as subterranean laboratory. Analysis of ascending collapse chimney and the discovery of ghost-rock combined with the study of piezometric level variations, recorded by a Luirograph, allowed to highlight a new way to drain residual deposits by flooding / dewatering of pseudo-galleries from ghost-rocks in cave system. At the same time, the piezometric level variations in the epiphreatic zone are the cause of a partial filling of the galleries.
Disciplines :
Earth sciences & physical geography
Author, co-author :
Dandurand, Grégory
Dubois, Caroline ;  Université de Mons > Faculté Polytechnique > Géologie fondamentale et appliquée
Maire, Richard
Quinif, Yves ;  Université de Mons > Faculté Polytechnique > Géologie fondamentale et appliquée
Language :
English
Title :
The Charente karst basin of the Touvre: alteration of the Jurassic series and speleogenesis by ghost-rock process
Publication date :
01 January 2014
Journal title :
Geologica Belgica
ISSN :
1374-8505
Publisher :
Geologica Belgica, Liège, Belgium
Volume :
17
Issue :
1
Pages :
27-32
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Research unit :
F401 - Géologie fondamentale et appliquée
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