Climatic and tectonic controls on the development of the River Ognon terrace system (eastern France)

Deciphering neotectonics from river profile analysis in the karst Jura Mountains (northern Alpine foreland)

“…Moreover, the Ognon profile (river 1 on Fig. 10) presents some neotectonically controlled knickpoints along the same N-S faults, which suggests a potential neotectonic activity along these structures, as already suggested by Madritsch et al (2012).…”

“…In this region, the Doubs River is antecedent to the late frontal folds (Giamboni et al 2004a;Ziegler and Fraefel 2009) but sedimentary analysis had revealed that the Ognon and the Doubs Rivers were never connected (Fig. 3b), suggesting that a previous topographic high existed before the protoDoubs River development (Late Miocene to Early Pliocene; Madritsch et al 2012).…”

Of ice and water: Quaternary fluvial response to glacial forcing

“…Meurthe and Sarre, belonging to the Rhine catchment, and the Ognon flowing towards the Saône and the Rhône (Figure 3; Cordier et al, 2006Cordier et al, , 2012Cordier et al, , 2014Madritsch et al, 2012).…”

“…With progressive glacier retreat, the glacial and fluvial systems can become increasingly decoupled, and local topographic conditions control the nature of the fluvial archive (e.g. Carton et al, 2009;Madritsch et al, 2012). The Combe d'Ain glaciolacustrine complex in the Jura is associated with prograding deltaic sediments and glacial deposits, with evidence for fluvial erosion during deglaciation.…”