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Aigues-Vives: Location AV04

It is important that you access this location on a laptop or desktop PC.

Click on any image to enlarge it - you will need to zoom in to see sufficient detail.

The photos are your outcrops, and you'll need to spend time studying them in detail, and working out the relationships between them.

Outcrop photographs

This location is a road cutting on the west side of the D57, 800m north of the Mairie (Town Hall). Explore the location in Google Maps and Streetview. Describe the overall form of the outcrop.


Figure 4.1. View of the road cut, looking north.

Figure 4.2. Closer view of the road cut.

Figure 4.3. Close-up of the basal contact. What are the
roughly cylindrical features within the sandstone?

 

 

Where next?

Make sure you've completed all the work for this locality. Now continue your investigations, or return to the Aigues-Vives home page.

 

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