Barrême is a commune

Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence is a French department in the south of France, it was formerly part of the province of Provence.- History :Nord-de-Provence was one of the 83 original departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790...

 department in southeastern France

France

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Geography

The village lies in the middle of the commune, near the confluence of the rivers Asse de Clumanc, Asse de Blieux, and Asse de Moriez, tributaries of the Asse.

Regional Geology

Barreme is a young Tertiary thrust sheet top basin, riding on the Digne thrust which proagates westwards. This fact means that the local topography reflects the geology very accuratley. So, anticlines and hard rocks are the high ground while synclines and soft rocks form the low ground. The basement is Cretaceous limestone and shale which are unconformably below the Tertiary fill of the basin. There are two units in the Tertiary fill of the basin, an older transgressive unit with the younger terrestrial unit unconformably on top of this. This tectonically driven region has major N-S trending thrusts sympathetic to the digne thrust. There are gypsum bodies which have been ducltily deformed to preduce sheath folds. These occur on multiple stratigraphic horizons.

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