Champsaur - exploring two syn-orogenic turbidite basins

Part of The Shear Zone Channel. Follow Rob on an investigation of two distinctive turbidite successions deposited in the "foreland" of the western Alps. It's a story of deducing tectonic controls on depositional pathways and how active structures on the (ancient) sea-bed can focus and direct submarine flows. All in a beautiful part of the Hautes-Alpes of France....