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Paper reference: T. Dewez, 1998, Influences néotectoniques sur la geomorphologie de la region de Huy: le meandre de Leumont et la butte d'Ombret, Bulletin de la Société géographique de Liège, 35, 19-27
(Article written in French with English abstract) The geomorphology of the region of Huy is profoundly marked by the tectonic activity of NNW-SSE striking normal faults. Two of them, one situated in Ombret, and the other at Statte, yield two curious morphologies: the bayonet-shaped meander of Ombret and the double meander of Leumont and Statte-Ahin. The sudden and progressive narrowing of the valley at Ombret results from the uplift of a tectonic bloc situated to the east of the meander. The Quaternary activity of this fault started when the Meuse was flowing on the top of the Ombret hill. Between Wanze and Antheit, the Meuse drew a short meander, the abandonned meander of Leumont. The formation of that meander was contemporaneous with the terraces covering the so-called "mont-Falhisse", a hill culminating at 90 m above the Meuse's alluvial plain level, between Antheit and Huy. The abandonment of the meanders dates back to the last erosion phase of the Meuse. In Statte, that last erosion phase could probably be older than or contemporaneous with the last glacial period.