Fig. 5

Stereogram showing the spread of bedding planes in the whole Var Pliocene Basin (Wulff projection, lower hemisphere). Bedding planes measured close to the Nice Arc boundary lie in the zone marked A. Most data is spread around a mean strike of N86°E and mean dip 13°S. Part of the spread is ascribed to the lithological nature and emplacement of the Pliocene molasses. Molasse emplacement occurred below sea level in a deltaic environment, thus this bedding value corresponds to the untilted original bedding value. A significant spread towards subvertical values is observed (zone labelled ‘A’ in stereogram) in a NW–SE direction. These values were measured along the Nice Arc boundary, west of Mont Cima (Fig. 2b) close to ‘La Loubière’ location (cf. Fig. 4a). Parallelisation of bedding to the western Nice Arc is ascribed to post-Pliocene activity of a dextral + reverse fault (St Blaise-Aspremont Fault)