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... channel permitting their waters to maintain the same level . The same red and yellow sands , sandstones , clays , and green and white foliated marls are found at Marcilly , Boën , Sury le Comtal , and generally throughout the plain ...
... channel permitting their waters to maintain the same level . The same red and yellow sands , sandstones , clays , and green and white foliated marls are found at Marcilly , Boën , Sury le Comtal , and generally throughout the plain ...
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... channel in a course from south to north . The inclination of the surface of the plain towards the river on either side , where not interrupted by hills , averages perhaps twenty feet in a mile . This at least is its slope from the base ...
... channel in a course from south to north . The inclination of the surface of the plain towards the river on either side , where not interrupted by hills , averages perhaps twenty feet in a mile . This at least is its slope from the base ...
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... the rocks on the opposite side , and usurping the channel of the river , down which they pursued their course to the distance of more than a mile . 3 . The Sioule , thus dispossessed of its bed 56 CHAP . V. MONTS DOME AND LIMAGNE .
... the rocks on the opposite side , and usurping the channel of the river , down which they pursued their course to the distance of more than a mile . 3 . The Sioule , thus dispossessed of its bed 56 CHAP . V. MONTS DOME AND LIMAGNE .
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... now forming the meadows of Pont Gibaud . In one part of this new channel , where the. Rock of Prismatic Lava on the Banks of the Sioule , near Pont Gibaud . 3. Chaumont , as seen from the South . CHAP . V. 57 PUYS NORTH OF PUY DE DOME . 57.
... now forming the meadows of Pont Gibaud . In one part of this new channel , where the. Rock of Prismatic Lava on the Banks of the Sioule , near Pont Gibaud . 3. Chaumont , as seen from the South . CHAP . V. 57 PUYS NORTH OF PUY DE DOME . 57.
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George Poulett Scrope. In one part of this new channel , where the valley has a slight bend , and the torrent of lava being opposed by a salient rock accumulated to a considerable thickness , the excavation effected by the river has ...
George Poulett Scrope. In one part of this new channel , where the valley has a slight bend , and the torrent of lava being opposed by a salient rock accumulated to a considerable thickness , the excavation effected by the river has ...
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Allier ancient appears Ardèche augite Auvergne basin bed of basalt breccia calcareous calcareous peperino Cantal cellular Central France chain of puys channel character Clermont clinkstone colour columnar compact conglomerate considerable contains covered crater Crown 8vo current of lava deposits distance district domite dyke east Edition elevation eruption evidently excavation Fcap feet felspar fissures flowed formed fragments freshwater formation geologists Gergovia gneiss granitic platform Graveneire Haute Loire heights hill Illustrations lacustrine lake lava lava-current Le Puy Limagne limestone marls mass matter Mezen miles Mont Dore Monts Dôme mountain neighbouring numerous observed occupied olivine Pariou peperino plain Plate plateau points Pomel Pont Portrait Post 8vo prisms probably Puy de Dôme recent remarkable ridge rise river rock sandstone scoriæ side Sioule slope strata stream of lava substance summit surface tertiary thick tion trachyte tuff valley vent Vivarais volcanic cones Vols Woodcuts
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