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Benat Cape
Hyères Bay
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Marseilles
La Ciotat
Cassis
Sicié Cape
Carry-le-Rouet
Bec de l'Aigle
Frioul islands
Riou archipelago
Embiez islands
Saint Mandrier
Giens peninsula
Porquerolles island
Port Cros island
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Fig. 5.2
Simplified geological map of the coastline between Cap Couronne and the Porquerolles-Port Cros archipelago. 1
Recent (Quaternary) sands of the
Giens peninsula. 2
Tender shelly Tertiary (Miocene) sandstone (Carry-le-Rouet “molasses”). 3
Consolidated pebble and sand sheets of Tertiary age (Oligocene)
filling in the Marseilles basin (ancient delta). 4
Pebble and sandstone sheets at Cap Canaille and the Ciotat from the secondary era (Upper Cretaceous, Turonian
stage). 5
Massive limestone bars of secondary age (Lower Cretaceous, Urgonian facies). 6
Red clays with salt and gypsum, of secondary age (Trias). 7
Primary
clays and red sandstones (“Permian”). 8
Mica schists (phyllites from Porquerolles-Port Cros archipelago and Giens). 9
Micaschists. 10
Gneiss and granites