Gravelly and sandy braidplain evolving into floodplain and playa lake deposits and vice versa in the Buntsandstein-facies sediments and marine incursions in the Triassic of the Lodève region (Southern France)

Abstract

Bun~andstein-facies, Middle Triassic, Lod~ve, Southern France; fluvial, braidplain, gravelly, sandy, floodplain, muddy, playa lake, evaporation, supersaturation, hypersaline, palaeosol, doloerete, hydromorpho~, aerated, zoned, mixed, telescoping; aeolian, deflation, dune, wind ripple, ventifact; alluvial-fan, dolomite breccia, Cambrian basement, unconformity, karstification, mad-flow, bu~d-out, swell, onlap; conglomerates, extraclastic, intraformational, highly-braided; sandstones, moderately-braided; playa lake, shrinkage, carbonate, sulphate, pre~pitation; marine, coastal sabkha, supra~dal flat, ~dal belt, littoral seam, cuvette depression, oolite barrier, pellicular transgression; palaeoslope, palaeorelief, degradation, rejuvenation, tectonics, uplift pulses, ~lting; climate, semi-arid, heavy rainfalls, vigorous floods; evolution, megacycle, symmetrical, progradation, retrogradation, depositional history.