International audienceAmong the various environmental natural files, the case of the underground detritic deposits was hitherto forsaken, in particular by high resolution analyses and treatments. Through the study of the sedimentary accumulation of the Cathedrale Lake (Choranche Caves, Vercors), this paper shows the potential of information which these deposits contain. With sedimentary cores sampled in the lake, various data are measured (granulometry, spectrocolorimetry, magnetic susceptibility and gray levels imagery) then submited to statistical processing (PCA, Passega images...) and signal treatment (wavelet decomposition). The stratigraphy of charcoal fragments trapped in the sediment, and dated by 14C method, does not appear suffici...