Languedoc - geology

Virtual field trips constructed by geology students at Oxford Brookes University

• Gorges d'Héric - high-grade metamorphic rocks of the axial zone of the Montagne Noire
• Volcanoes of Languedoc
• Geology of the Upper Aude Valley
• The Devonian limestones of the Montagne Noire
• The Corbières Region
  

General links

• Geological sites to visit
• Taste the Geology
• Tethyan plate tectonic evolution
• Geology and Wine
• Terroir, wine and geoscience field education
• Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Iberian Peninsula
  
• The state of the French Mediterranean coastal aquifers
• Show caves of France
• Inventory of French Geological Landscapes

Regional/departmental links

• Geological field trips - Académie de Montpellier
• Soils & landscapes in Languedoc-Roussillon
• "Thermalism" of Languedoc-Roussillon
• Geological inventory of the Gard département
• Spele Aude - caves and karst in Aude

Geological sites: the following links are arranged roughly from north to south

Massif Central

• Chaîne des Puys - a chain of volcanoes well worth seeing on your way down or back
• Rochechouart impact crater (central France)

  Cévennes

• Geological History of the Cévennes
• Rocks and Scenery of the Mont Lozère Region
• Field trip to the Cévennes and adjacent Rhône Valley

  Les Causses - the limestone plateaux

• Millau viaduct - official web site
• The Millau viaduct project
• The Millau viaduct - highest bridge in the world
• Montpellier-le-Vieux - spectacular karst scenery
• The Roquefort caves - geology and cheese!
• Cirque de Navacelles

  

• Montagne Noire

• Geology of the Montagne Noire. Nicely illustrated and informative web site
• Trilobites from the Montagne Noire
• Gorges d'Héric
• Marble quarry at Caunes-Minervois
• Gouffre Géant de Cabrespine - impressive show cave
• Salsigne gold mine
• Inquiry into pollution from Salsigne gold mines
• From Bédarieux to Salagou - virtual field trip
• The Permian flora of Lodève
• Lodève uranium mines
• Uranium minerals from Lodève - scroll through these pages
• Uranium minerals from Lodève 2
• Pioch Farrus copper mine, Cabrières
• Cabrières - geology and archaeology
• Cabrières - the global site for the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary
• The Aldène (or Coquille) Cave, Minerve

Languedoc basin

• Sea level change in the Gard and the Rhone Valley - field trip
• La Bruguière (Gard) - rocks, the products and witnesses of time
• Landscape evolution near Nîmes
• Field trip - relative dating of rock units - Nîmes area
• Waste disposal and the Pliocene - Bellegarde (Gard)
• The source of the Lez - field trip to a karstic aquifer near Montpellier
• Minerve lignite mines
• Sussargues quarries near Montpellier
• Plaine des Dinosaures - dinosaur nesting site (English summary)
• Plaine des Dinosaures - official site
• Geology of Combejean & Pierrerue (St Chinian)
• From the Hérault basin to the Mediterranean passive margin - field trip
• The Volcanoes of Hérault
• The Cap d'Agde Volcanoes
• Massif de la Clape, near Narbonne
• Lagrasse: thrust tectonics
• Terra Vinea - visit the wine cellars in an old gypsum mine
• Dinosaur Museum, Espéraza
• Channel 4: Big Monster Dig - Titanosaur eggs in France

  

• Pyrenees and Roussillon basin

• Metamorphism in the Agly Massif
• Les Orgues d'Ille-sur-Têt - spectacular erosion features
• Roussillon seen from the sky (aerial photos)
• Geology of the Catalonian Pyrenees

Maps

• Online topographic maps of the region

Natural Hazards

• Natural hazards (Languedoc-Roussillon regional government)
• Atlas of Flood zones in Languedoc
• The floods of 12-13 November 1999
• November 1999 floods
• Mediterranean Rivers
• Coastal erosion
• Seismic surveillance network of the Pyrenees
• Comparison of two damaging earthquakes in France in 1996: Saint- Paul-de-Fenouillet (Pyrenees) and Épagny (Alps)

Languedoc-Roussillon - nature

• Haut-Languedoc Regional Nature Park
• Regional Nature Park of la Narbonnaise en Méditerranée
• Map of Regional Nature Parks in France
• Walks and tours in Pyrénées-Orientales
• The Mediterranean Garden at Roquebrun
• The Languedoc 'back country'
• Mediterranean Rivers
• Ecologistes de l'Euzière Interpretations of geology, ecology, landscape
• Languedoc-Roussillon regional government environmental site
• Parks and gardens of Languedoc Roussillon

Languedoc-Roussillon - archaeology, history, museums

General

• L'Aude - une terre d'histoire. Introduction to history written by local school children
• Piémont Biterrois guide (part of Montagne Noire/Cévennes)
• The Minervois
• Drystone architecture
• The Cathars
• Guide to the Pays Cathare
• Map of the Pays Cathare

Specific sites or areas - links are arranged roughly from north to south

• The Camisards
• Lodève Museum
• Cahiers de Minerve
• Grotte de la Coquille
• Villeneuvette - Louis XIV 'model' village of weavers
• Grotte de Gazel
• Canal du Midi
• Sentier des Capitelles de Laure-Minervois
• Amphoralis - Gallo-Roman pottery industry museum
• Peasants and Protest: Agricultural Workers, Politics, and Unions in the Aude, 1850-1914
• Mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau
• Excursion on June 25 1905 to Rennes-le-Chateau
• Rennes-le-Chateau papers - a site that 'debunks' the mysteries
• Tautavel man (450,000 years). Tautavel museum
• Tautavel
• Chateau de Peyrepertuse

Languedoc - weather and climate

• Corbières temperature & rainfall
• France Temperature Guide

Languedoc - culture

• Occitan language and culture
• Food and wine from Languedoc-Roussillon
• Festivals
• Aude food and wine guides
• L'Oulibo olive oil cooperative

Cities, Towns and Villages

• Towns & villages in Hérault
• Aerial views of towns and cities
  
  
• Agde
• Alet-les-Bains
• Carcassonne - history and virtual tour (French ministry of culture)
• Carcassonne
• Carcassonne
• Carcassonne - Mescladís
• Cessenon
• Ille-sur-Têt
• Lodève
• Mèze
• Narbonne
• Perpignan
• St Chinian
• Trèbes

Information for tourists and visitors

• Sun France - Languedoc-Roussillon official tourist information
• Languedoc-Roussillon links
• Hotels and Travel in Languedoc-Roussillon
• Southern France Guide
• Photo Gallery

• Welcome to Hérault
• Département of Hérault
• Montagne Noire tourist sites
• Discovering Hérault
• Bienvenue en Languedoc-Roussillon - Hérault
• Département of Aude
• Bienvenue en Languedoc-Roussillon - Aude
• Corbières Web
• Midi-Life.com - "news portal and service guide for visitors and expatriate residents of the Aude"
• Bienvenue en Languedoc-Roussillon - Pyrénées-Orientales
• The 'Little Yellow Train' in the Pyrenees