As a hydrosystem under multiple pressures, the Rhône is a Franco-Swiss river that has been heavily anthropized. The Rhône River has been channelized since the end of the 19th century by corrective engineering works called “casiers Girardon” (a sort of groyne field closed by a submersible longitudinal dike), and by-passed since the middle of the 20th century for hydroelectric production. Our study areas, located on the middle and lower Rhône (Pierre-Bénite, Péage-de-Roussillon, Montélimar and Donzère-Mondragon reaches) are both “corrected” and by-passed. Subject to terrestrialization and vegetalization, these dike fields display sedimentary patterns that testify of the two phases of development impact. Thanks to a geohistorical approach usin...