The fold is the most outlying (western) within the Chartreuse district. It is carried on the most external of the thrusts in this sector of the Alps. Further west is the foreland.
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| Looking NE onto lower Cretaceous limestones in the core of the Ratz anticline. On the left are steeply dipping beds of the forelimb with the crest of the fold evident behind. Chailles gorge. |
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