The Mont Ventoux: the Alp that is not in the Alps This stage is the last in the Alpine foreland and leads over the famous Mont Ventoux. Here, in the Provence of Southern France, the formation history of the Alps … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →A ride through the world’s greatest lake Today’s stage leads us through the ‘foreland basin’ of the Alps. The enormous pile of rocks that Adria shoved over Europe to form the Alps, make that the European plate bends down a … Continue reading →
Climbing through a nappe stack Yesterday, we the riders raced through offscraped slices of the French part of the Eurasian continent, but today we ride through rocks of the Alps that have sustained much worse geological torture. As explained in … Continue reading →
The Alps and the collision of Greater Adria and Europe After a week of cycling through the ancient crystalline massifs of France, and the overlying Paris Basin, we now enter younger geological phenomena. So far, we have seen the result … Continue reading →
Rifts, volcanoes, and coal Today’s stage leads us from the southeastern margin of the Paris Basin, in which yesterday’s stage ended, tot he next ‘island’ of older rocks. These rocks have been deformed in the ‘Variscan’ mountain building stage, just … Continue reading →
Bunch sprint in the Paris Basin Yesterday, we stood at the coast of the Jurassic inland sea of the Paris Basin, but the flat stage of today occurs entirely within the basin. The Paris basin is a leage, roughly circular … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →A back-in-time trial along a tropical coast The back-in-time trial of today brings us back to the Jurassic period, between 200 and 140 million years ago. The time trial from Changé to Laval leads us along the eastern margin of … Continue reading →