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Rivers that empty into the Golfe du Lion are the Tech , Têt , Aude , Orb , Hérault , Vidourle , and the Rhône . The Continental Shelf is exposed here as a wide coastal plain, and the offshore terrain slopes rapidly to the Mediterranean's Abyssal Plain . Much of the coastline is in lagoons and Salt Marsh . This is the area of the famous cold, blustery Catabatic Wind called the Mistral . GEODYNAMICS The Golfe du Lion cannot be dismissed as a simple passive continental margin, however. It results from Oligocene - Miocene anti-clockwise rotation of the Corsican-Sardinian Block against the European Craton . This extension rejuvenated a very complex tectonic framework inherited from the Tethyan evolution and the Pyrenean orogeny. The Eocene Mountain-building Event that built the Pyrenees compressed and thickened the entire crust. Oil geologists predict that there will be considerable oil deposits at the seaward margins of the Golfe. ECONOMY The chief port on the Gulf is Marseille . Toulon is another important port. The fishing industry in the Gulf is based on Hake (''Merluccius merluccius''), being bottom-trawled, long-lined and gill-netted and currently declining from over-fishing. EXTERNAL LINKS
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