English: The lake, now dammed and used as a reservoir, lies in a deflation pan. That is a natural, circular, shallow depression caused by the removal of fairly loose, mainly Pliocene, sediment by wind erosion, during very cold, windy phases of the Quaternary period. It is the largest of a number of such deflation pans in this area.
See: Calvet, Marc; Delmas, Magali; Gunnell, Yanni; Laumonier, Bernard. 2022. Geology and Landscapes of the Eastern Pyrenees: A Field Guide with Excursions (pp. 323-324). Springer International Publishing. Kindle Edition.
Français : Le lac, aujourd'hui endigué et utilisé comme réservoir, se trouve dans une "deflation pan". Il s'agit d'une cuvette naturelle circulaire et peu profonde causée par l'enlèvement de sédiments assez meubles, principalement du Pliocène, par l'érosion éolienne, pendant les phases très froides et venteuses du Quaternaire. Il s'agit de la plus grande des nombreuses cuvettes de ce genre de ce secteur de la plaine du Roussillon.
Voir : B. Laumonier et al., Notice explicative de la feuille Argelès-sur-Mer - Cerbère (1097) à 1/50 00, BRGM Éditions, Orléans, 2015 (pages 7, 62 et 95), en ligne à : http://ficheinfoterre.brgm.fr/Notices/1097N.pdf.
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Lac de Villeneuve-de-la-Raho, Pyrénées-Orientales, France. In the distance: Canigou massif.
Lac de Villeneuve-de-la-Raho, Pyrénées-Orientales (66). Au loin : le massif du Canigou.
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