This guide aims to recount, through the coastal landscapes of the Rhône delta to the harbour of Toulon, the last two hundred and fifty million years of the geological history of limestone Provence. The film of events unfolds before us, with the comings and goings of the sea in the time of the dinosaurs, and the great upheavals of the Tertiary era that gave the face of today's coastline. It is the continuation in space and time of the previous Geonautical Guide which covers the coastal geology of crystalline Provence, from the harbour of Hyères to the Esterel.
Boaters, take your time, drop anchor. Hikers, put your bag on the side of the path. The landscape is waiting to be observed, the ordinary rock to be contemplated. Then, helped by this guide, the imagination will come to illuminate what the eye cannot read. Fossils will fascinate us and reveal the infinite creativity of nature over time. But landscapes, rocks and fossils teach us much more, they bear witness to a bygone environment, irreversibly modified by man. They demand all our respect.
EXCERPT: pages 28 and 29
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WORK
Author: Georges BRONNER
Paperback: 64 pages
Size: 29 x 21 cm
An out-of-text map: 40 x 56 cm
Publisher: Editions Jeanne Laffitte
Edition: 1st (24 May 2006)
Language: French
ISBN-13: 978 2 86 276 442 9
Price: 23 euros
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Savoir/Essonne (2006)
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