The Trévaresse is a series of hilltops in the

Bouches-du-Rhône Bouches-du-Rhône ( ; , ; ; "the Mouths of the Rhône") is a Departments of France, department in southern France. It borders Vaucluse to the north, Gard to the west and Var (department), Var to the east. The Mediterranean Sea lies to the sout ...

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

.Conseil général: la chaine des Côtes, Trévaresse, Roques
Francois Rozier, ''Observations sur la physique, sur l'histoire naturelle et sur les arts'', Volume 33, Hôtel de Thou, 1788, p. 2

/ref>Répertoire des travaux, publ. sous la direction de P.-M. Roux, Société de statistique de Marseille, 1839, p. 2

/ref> They run from Saint-Cannat to

Lambesc Lambesc () is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southern France. Lambesc is located in the heart of Provence at the foot of the Côtes mountain range, near the Alpilles. The town has a ...

and are covered by many vineyards. The soil is made of

clay Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, ). Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impuriti ...

and

limestone Limestone is a type of carbonate rock, carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material Lime (material), lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different Polymorphism (materials science) ...

. Christophe de Villeneuve-Bargemon, ''Statistique du département des Bouches-du-Rhone'', A. Ricard, 1821, p. 43

/ref> There is a former

volcano A volcano is commonly defined as a vent or fissure in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most oft ...

, whose crater is the site of Château Beaulieu.Dominique Auzias, Petit Futé,, Jean-Paul Labourdette, ''Tourisme et Vignoble en France'', Petit Futé, 2012, p. 47

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Landforms of Bouches-du-Rhône Hills of France Landforms of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur {{BouchesRhône-geo-stub