Figure 5.
(A) Location of the Montagne Noire. (B) Structural map. (C) Interpretive cross section showing an alternative hypothesis for dome formation and enigmatic normal shear zones and faults observed on its northern flank (NF). The southern recumbent fold nappes (SFN) emplaced on the foreland basin are passively deformed during development of the Axial Zone (AZ) antiformal stack. PCB—Permian and Upper-Carboniferous basins; VFB—Visean Foreland Basin; L.P—lower plate; U.P—upper plate.