The Formation of the Crau Plain: A Historical Analysis of the Durance River’s Impact

Contemporary scholars tell us that the Crau plain, near the Camargue, was born from the Durance. More precisely of its alluvium at the time when the river was a river and ended its course in the Mediterranean Sea. Before it is diverted to the east towards the Rhône, becoming a tributary, by one of these upheavals which our Earth is accustomed to. This is how the Crau is made up of countless pebbles, pebbles polished and shaped by the river during its descent from the Hautes-Alpes where it arises, at Montgenèvre. delay, these pebbles arrived by truck. They come from the Durance, from the Beynon quarry, located between Sisteron and Gap. They are extracted