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    The Paris Basin (French: Bassin parisien) is one of the major geological regions of France. It developed since the Triassic over remnant uplands of the...
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  • France's oil reserves are mainly distributed between the Paris Basin and the Aquitaine Basin. In 1939 production in mainland France was around 50,000...
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    subterranean network is colloquially referred to as "The Catacombs". Paris lies within the Paris Basin, a geological bowl-like shape created by millennia of sea...
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    Structural basins are often important sources of coal, petroleum, and groundwater. Hampshire Basin, United Kingdom London Basin, United Kingdom Paris Basin, France...
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    minted their own coins. The Romans conquered the Paris Basin in 52 BC and began their settlement on Paris's Left Bank. The Roman town was originally called...
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    Seine (redirect from 2018 Paris flood)
    777-kilometre-long (483 mi) river in northern France. Its drainage basin is in the Paris Basin (a geological relative lowland) covering most of northern France...
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  • up Paris, Páris, París, or Parìs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Look up paris, parís, pāris, or päris in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Paris is...
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    Acad. Sci. Paris (in French). 250 (23): 3870–3871. Buffetaut, Eric (2004). "Footprints of Giant Birds from the Upper Eocene of the Paris Basin: An Ichnological...
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  • The Aquitaine Basin is the second largest Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary basin in France after the Paris Basin, occupying a large part of the country's...
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    the Paris Basin. Danubian I peoples cleared forests and cultivated fertile loess soils from the Balkans to the Low Countries and the Paris Basin. They...
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    primary evidence for extinction came from mammoth skulls found in the Paris basin. Cuvier recognized them as distinct from any known living species of...
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    from Andalusia, Castile, and Catalonia to Brittany, Normandy, and the Paris Basin. La parure en callaïs du néolithique européen. G. Querré, Serge Cassen...
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    species of shelled gastropod that ever lived. It is found mostly in the Paris Basin, France. La plage coquillière. La Cave aux Coquillages 33.(0)3.26.58...
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    Georges Cuvier (category Chancellors of the University of Paris)
    in geology in the early 19th century. His study of the strata of the Paris basin with Alexandre Brongniart established the basic principles of biostratigraphy...
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    Aalenian-Bajocian boundary beds of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (NE Paris Basin)". Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana. 46 (2–3): 166. Iba...
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    and were only found further north, in the Loire and Saône basins and in the Paris Basin. Yet Rouffignac was decorated at this time! He therefore proposes...
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    belongs to the Armorican Massif, while most of the region lies in the Paris Basin. France's oldest rocks are exposed in Jobourg, on the Cotentin peninsula...
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  • Valentin, Boris (2008). "Magdalenian and Azilian Lithic Productions in the Paris Basin: Disappearance of a Programmed Economy". The Arkotek Journal. 2 (1)....
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    5 in) long fossil seed pod has been described from the Eocene of the Paris Basin. Acacia-like fossil pods under the name Leguminocarpon are known from...
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    of France is commonly divided into the Paris Basin, the Armorican Massif, the Massif Central, the Aquitaine Basin, the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Côte languedocienne...
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  • genus of Geosporobacter which has been isolated from water from the Paris Basin. "Species: Geosporobacter subterraneus". LPSN.DSMZ.de. Klouche, Nihel;...
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    fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris, in English Iconography of the fossil shells of the Eocene of the Paris basin) written with G. Pissaro (1904–1913...
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    found mainly along the south coast of the Baltic Sea, amber from the Paris Basin, France, the Fur Formation, Denmark, and the Bembridge Marls from the...
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    indicated on the river Seine at the western city limits. Paris lies in the so-called "Paris Basin," a low-lying continental shelf that over geologic time...
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    south. It protects the broad-leaved trees typical of the southeastern Paris Basin plateau. The idea for the park was put forth in 2009, with numerous working...
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    little change in peasant life occurred beyond northern France and the Paris basin until the last quarter of the century. Millet's representation of class...
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  • published in the year 1804. Georges Cuvier describes fossil from the Paris Basin. He determines that two particular taxa based on their fossils were similar...
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    flint mines of Spiennes), the coastal chalks of the English Channel, the Paris Basin, Thy in Jutland (flint mine at Hov), the Sennonian deposits of Rügen...
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