Abstract
THE region described by Mr. Baring-Gould, lies, roughly speaking, to the south and south-west of Auvergne, forming a kind of border-land to that country and the Cevennes. Most of it goes by the name of Les Causses. This is a limestone region, furrowed deep by gorges, and pierced by caves. On the eastern side it rises, in three steps, from the neighbourhood of the Gulf of Lyons to the central massif of ancient granite and schists and of comparatively modern volcanic-rock; on the western side it falls, in like manner, to the sandy lowlands on either bank of the Garonne.
The Deserts of Southern France; an Introduction to the Limestone and Chalk Plateaux of Ancient Aquitaine.
By S. Baring-Gould With illustrations. In two volumes. (London: Methuen and Co., 1894.)
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BONNEY, T. The Plateau Region of Southern France. Nature 51, 100–101 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051100a0
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