20/12/2015
Field visits
A programme of field visits is being prepared, it may include:
-History of water fountains, squares and anecdotes about the history of Montpellier’s water supply during the past millennium
-Karstic spring of L*z. Active management, drinking water supply for 340000 inhabitants, origin, tracing, new boreholes, water quality and biodiversity
-Corbières area: karstic geology, Roussillon Pliocene multilayer aquifer, hydrothermal springs in Tet River valley, Messinian Crisis of Salinity, Astian multilayer aquifer
-Larzac plateau: karst, geomorphology and groundwater protection. Millau viaduct
-Lozère granitic basement and mineral springs of Salvetat and Avène
-Fontaine de Vaucluse spring
-Etang de Thau, Balaruc, Messinian Crisis of Salinity
-Pyrénées: origin of groundwater, economic issues, tourism and thermalism in a pyrenean valley