1. The landform is a plain consisting of alluvial and diluvial deposits from the Quaternary period

2. The landform is a plain consisting of alluvial and diluvial deposits from the Quaternary period.

3. The centre of the town, between Labbés, Genin, and Texier, is located on old alluvium from the Quaternary period.

4. Alluvium dated from the Quaternary period cover the alluvial valleys of the Aume and Charente, the most recent being on the floodplain.

5. Cainozoic period a geological era that includes the QUATERNARY PERIOD and TERTIARY PERIOD, beginning some 65 million years ago and extending up to the present time.

6. Since the start of the Quaternary period about 2.6 million years ago, the eustatic sea level has fallen during each glacial period and then risen again.

7. If the Anthropocene is a period, then the Quaternary period, which began approximately 2.6 million years ago at a time of major glacial-interglacial fluctuation, has ended.

8. During the Quaternary period, frost weathering of limestone played an important role in the Alpilles and resulted in the stony deposits or “grèzes”, which linger beneath the warp of recent colluvium or alluvium.

9. During the Quaternary period, frost weathering of limestone played an important role in the Alpilles and resulted in the stony deposits or “grèzes” which linger beneath the warp of recent colluvium or alluvium.

10. The geographical area has a typically Mediterranean climate and lies on alluvial terraces of the late Quaternary period; it has a permeable sub-soil and distinctive landscapes formed as a result of human activity.

11. Anthropocene Epoch, unofficial interval of geologic time, making up the third worldwide division of the Quaternary Period (2.6 million years ago to the present), characterized as the time in which the collective activities of human beings (Homo sapiens) began to substantially alter Earth’s surface, atmosphere, oceans, and systems of nutrient cycling.

12. terraces with stony impoverished soils, detrital molasse from the Pliocène period, covered or not by old alluvial deposits from the Quaternary period, modern alluvial soils which are all well-drained allowing water to flow and the texture of which limits the bacteria attacks to which these apricot trees are greatly susceptible;