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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    is commonly but mistakenly 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    inches) 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Mezen Basin Molasse Basin Moscow Basin North Sea Basin Oslo Rift Pannonian Basin Paris Basin Peri-Caspian Depression Timan-Pechora Basin White Sea Rift System...
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    Pterodactyl. 1804 — Cuvier writes about fossils of extinct mammals from the Paris Basin, arguing that they are similar to other mammals such as ruminants but...
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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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    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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    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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    Mezen Basin Molasse Basin Moscow Basin North Sea Basin Oslo Rift Pannonian Basin Paris Basin Peri-Caspian Depression Timan-Pechora Basin White Sea Rift System...
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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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    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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    North Sea (redirect from North Sea Basin)
    it was connected with other shallow seas, such as the sea above the Paris Basin to the south-west, the Paratethys Sea to the south-east, or the Tethys...
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    269) The region covers a large part of the Aquitaine Basin and a small portion of the Paris Basin (the border between the two being located at the "Seuil...
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    conspectus and the Lowermost Eocene amber deposit of Le Quesnoy in the Paris Basin" (PDF). Geologica Acta. 2 (1): 3–8. Penney, David; McNeil, Andrew; Green...
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    culture, have been discovered in the French département of Essonne in the Paris Basin. These are not, however, megalithic structures. Neolithic monuments are...
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