France

Cretaceous limestone at Cognac, Charente, SW France

Ivy and limestone cliff of Cretaceous Coniacian, Cognac, Charente, France.

Limestone Cretaceous cornices (Coniacian type), valley of the river Voultron; Blanzaguet-Saint-Cybard, Charente, France.

Simplified stratigraphic chart of the Angoumian, a Turonian sedimentary group in the northern Aquitaine Basin, France. Facies changes are not indicated.

landscape of Montmorélien (Cretaceous Campanian), Charente, SW France

Typical landscape of the hills around Montmoreau. Saint-Amant, Charente, France.

Typical landscape of the hills around Montmoreau. Saint-Amant, Charente, France.

Chalky hillside with its characteristic vegetation (dry lawn, juniper, orchids, pines on the top). Juignac, Charente, France.

Marnes du Callovien, localement nommées les « terres grises », sur le territoire de la commune de Quissac, dans le Gard (région Occitanie, France).

Falaises marneuses à l'est de Port-en-Bessin-Huppain (Calvados, France).

Kerberos langebadreae, big hyainailourid hyaenodont from the Middle Eocene - Bartonian- of Montespieu (Tarn, France)

Sinter deposits on Upper Bajocian oolite at the new entry to the Villars Cave, Villars, Dordogne, France.

Dolomitic, brownish-reddish Lower Bajocian from Ribeyrolles, Saint-Martin-le-Pin, Dordogne, France. The rock is recrystallized and slightly karstified.

Completely recrystallized Middle Bajocian limestone from Saint-Martial-de-Valette, Dordogne, France. The rock shows radially arranged fibrous calcite prisms in intense red colour.

White bioclastic Upper Bajocian limestone from the Sabouret quarry in Saint-Martial-de-Valette, Dordogne, France. The weathered surface reveals the bioclastic nature (and therefore high energy deposition) of the limestone with all kinds of broken debris, tiny oolites and some urchin spines.

Oolitic limestone (Sarthe, France)