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... formations of Central France . Great light has likewise been thrown on the Palæon- tology of this district by the ... formation to the heaping up of ejected matters , whether frag- mentary or in the form of congealed lava - currents ...
... formations of Central France . Great light has likewise been thrown on the Palæon- tology of this district by the ... formation to the heaping up of ejected matters , whether frag- mentary or in the form of congealed lava - currents ...
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... FORMATIONS . THE parallel of 46:30 , passing near the towns of Châteauroux and Châlons - sur - Saône , will be found to divide France into two nearly equal portions , of which the northern may be considered as a vast plain , whose ...
... FORMATIONS . THE parallel of 46:30 , passing near the towns of Châteauroux and Châlons - sur - Saône , will be found to divide France into two nearly equal portions , of which the northern may be considered as a vast plain , whose ...
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... formation exhibits a series of flat - topped hills bounded by perpendicular cliffs 600 or 800 feet high . These plateaux are called " causses " in the provincial dialect , and they have a singularly dreary and desert aspect from the ...
... formation exhibits a series of flat - topped hills bounded by perpendicular cliffs 600 or 800 feet high . These plateaux are called " causses " in the provincial dialect , and they have a singularly dreary and desert aspect from the ...
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... by blue schistose marls or sandstone , and occasionally by magnesian limestone , especially in the departments of Dordogne , Lot , and Aveyron . CHAPTER II . TERTIARY FORMATIONS . SOME three or four CHAP . I. 5 SECONDARY FORMATIONS .
... by blue schistose marls or sandstone , and occasionally by magnesian limestone , especially in the departments of Dordogne , Lot , and Aveyron . CHAPTER II . TERTIARY FORMATIONS . SOME three or four CHAP . I. 5 SECONDARY FORMATIONS .
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... formations , since their lowest deposits are seen almost everywhere resting against the granite ranges which , no ... FORMATION OF THE LIMAGNE D'AUVERGNE . The largest 6 CHAP . II . TERTIARY FORMATIONS . CHAPTER II TERTIARY LACUSTRINE ...
... formations , since their lowest deposits are seen almost everywhere resting against the granite ranges which , no ... FORMATION OF THE LIMAGNE D'AUVERGNE . The largest 6 CHAP . II . TERTIARY FORMATIONS . CHAPTER II TERTIARY LACUSTRINE ...
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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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