Carcassonne balanced cross-section and its Paleocene restoration. Legend similar than the Figure 9. Alaric and Boucher Thrusts are connected into the basement. The restoration of syn-orogenic series shows the retro-foreland Eocene filling during shortening: the Villerouge Thrust activation is marked by growth strata deposit of the Coustouge group, then the Boucher and Alaric Thrusts during the Coustouge and Carcassonne group in agreement with the Les Bains cross-section. The NE-SW post-Eocene faults show slight vertical normal offsets. The numerous NE-SW post-Eocene faults affecting the hangingwall of the Boucher Thrust are in the alignment of Alet and Rennes-les-Bains. A part of the main recharge area (see Fig. 8) is indicated with a groundwater cold flow toward the W-SW. In the restoration, the NE-SW Mesozoic normal faults are considered with the same NE vergence than the post-Eocene displacement and similar to the NE-SW Mesozoic normal faults affecting the eastern part of the Mouthoumet Massif (see Figs. 2 or 8).