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unusual facts about Massif Central


Seuil du Poitou

The Seuil du Poitou is a geological denomination for an area in western central France where the Paris (Northeast) and Aquitaine (Southwest) sedimentary basins meet, and which also is a gap between the ancient mountain ranges Massif Armoricain (Northwest) and the Massif Central (Southeast).


Catherine Soullie

Catherine Soullie (born 18 July 1954 in Cite d'Aunis) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament elected in the 2009 European election for the Massif Central-Centre constituency.

Garabit viaduct

The Garabit Viaduct (Viaduc de Garabit in French) is a railway arch bridge spanning the River Truyère near Ruynes-en-Margeride (Fr), Cantal, France, in the mountainous Massif Central region.

Menatalligator

The strata from which remains of Menatalligator have been found are part of the Chaîne des Puys, a volcanically active chain of mountains in the Massif Central.

Monts Dore

The Monts Dore are the remnant peaks of a volcanic massif situated near the center of the Massif Central, in the Auvergne region of France.

Nohant-Vic

Just to the south of La Châtre, some twelve kilometres south of Vic, the Variscan-faulted rocks of the Massif Central begin with Cambrian/Ordovician migmatite.

Philippe Labro

Philippe Labro, is a French author, journalist and film director, born in Montauban (close to the Massif Central and the Pyrenees) on 27 August 1936.


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