Pollen studies of a peat bog in the Erdre valley, a downstream tributary in the Loire River basin, revealed the stages in the filling in of a deep thalweg from the Atlantic chronozone. For the first time, analysis showed that the Flandrian sea penetrated into this valley from around 7350 B.P. to around 6340 B.P., depositing nearly ten metres of fluvial and marine mud m 1,000 years. From around 5770 B.P. to our time, a peat deposit was superposed on the mud. It is very likely that a hiatus occurred in the sedimentation process relative to erosion during the Sub- Boreal marine regression. Signs of human activity (cereals) attest to the presence of man in this region from the end of the Mesolithic or beginning of the Neolithic. Pollen of Jugl...