0 ), the site is underlain by eluvial and alluvial
formations that are characterised by detrital facies. The superficial alluvium is constituted mainly of pebbles and gravels that result from the dismantling of basaltic formations situated upstream. The possible origins of the pebbles in these formations are firstly the accumulation of boulders coming from weathered volcanic flows cleaned of their clayish coat and secondly the accumulation of basalt blocks rolled and smoothed through fluvial transportation. The Geological also identifies fresh basalt of the Younger Volcanic Series that are characterised by uniform doleritic facies mainly to the east of the site. These lavas are light greyish in colour and show many phenocrysts (large crystal surrounded by a finer-grained matrix in an igneous rock) of olivine scattered in the doleritic network of feldspars and pyroxenes (silicate minerals). They are often porous and vesicular and show many cracks and fissures, but they are also sometimes compact. Scoriaceous textures are common, mainly at the upper and lower parts of the flows. Weathering is in general not important and is very often in concentric beds production oniontype alteration structures.