The Parentis Basin. N–S schematic cross-section close to present shoreline showing the decollement on the Triassic evaporites of the basin margins and coeval basinal salt supported anticlines disconnecting infra and supra-salt series. The timing of main rifting is well expressed (Latest Aptian-Early Albian). The Late Albian marly and turbiditic series (Black Flysch equivalent) drapes the underlying faults. The Upper Cretaceous is unfaulted (after Serrano et al., 2006).