“…These starved post-rift pelagic sediments record thermal subsidence. 291 However, some restricted extensional deformation is reported locally within the 292 Briançonnais area (Claudel & Dumont, 1999), as in Provence (Dardeau et al, 1988) (Thum et al, 2015), or Alpine forebulge 309 propagation (Michard & Martinotti, 2002). 310 Despite the metamorphic overprint, (litho)stratigraphic correlations between many 311 units presently included in the Internal Zones of the western Alpine arc remain possible.…”