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Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière
Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière (; oc, Sent Pardon la Ribiera) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It forms part of the Parc naturel régional Périgord Limousin. Etymology The Occitan is derived from ''Saint Pardulphus'' (), means 'the river', i.e. the Dronne. Geography Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière is surrounded by the following communes: * Champs-Romain in the north. * Saint-Saud-Lacoussière in the northeast. * Milhac-de-Nontron in the southeast. * Saint-Front-la-Rivière in the south. * Sceau-Saint-Angel in the west. * Nontron in the northwest. * Savignac-de-Nontron in the northwest (the communes only touch at a single point). Besides the village center the commune of Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière comprises the following hamlets: ''Beaumont'', ''Bon Ombre'', ''Bordessoule'', ''Bos-Brûlat'', ''Brande'', ''Brin'', ''Chaumeille'', ''Chez Bathe'', ''Chez Boissard'', ''Chez Boutard'', ''Chez Neymard'', ''Jamaye'', ''La Briderie'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parc Naturel Régional Périgord Limousin
The Parc naturel régional Périgord Limousin (or Périgord Limousin Regional Natural Park) was created March 9, 1998. It consists of 78 communes situated in the Dordogne and Haute Vienne départements. The park has a surface area of 1,800 square kilometers and is inhabited by 49,661 people. Geography The park comprises 5 Cantons of France, cantons in the Dordogne: * Canton of Bussière-Badil, Bussière-Badil * Canton of Jumilhac-le-Grand, Jumilhac-le-Grand * Canton of Mareuil, Mareuil * Canton of Nontron, Nontron * Canton of Saint-Pardoux, Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière and 5 cantons in the Haute-Vienne: * Canton of Châlus, Châlus * Canton of Oradour-sur-Vayres, Oradour-sur-Vayres * Canton of Rochechouart, Rochechouart * Canton of Saint-Laurent-sur-Gorre, Saint-Laurent-sur-Gorre * Canton of Saint-Mathieu, Saint-Mathieu Associated with the 78 founding communes are six other communes, that serve as access points to the park: * Aixe-sur-Vienne * Brantôme, Dordogne, Brantôme * Nex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dronne
The Dronne (, also , ; oc, Drona) is a long river in southwestern France, right tributary of the Isle. Its source is in the north-western Massif Central, east of the town of Châlus (south-west of Limoges) at an elevation of . It flows south-west through the following ''départements'' and towns: * Haute-Vienne * Dordogne: Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière, Brantôme, Ribérac * Charente: Aubeterre-sur-Dronne * Charente-Maritime * Gironde: Coutras The Dronne flows into the Isle in Coutras. Among its tributaries are the Lizonne and the Côle The Côle (french: la Côle) is a long river in the Dordogne ''département'', south-central France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, .... References Rivers of France Rivers of Dordogne Rivers of Gironde Rivers of Haute-Vienne Rivers of Nouvelle-Aquitaine {{France-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piégut-Pluviers Granodiorite
The Piégut-Pluviers Granodiorite is situated at the northwestern edge of the Variscan Massif Central in France. Its cooling age has been determined as 325 ± 14 million years BP (Mississippian age, Upper Mississippian, Serpukhovian). Geographical situation The Granodiorite was named after Piégut-Pluviers, a small town in the Arrondissement of Nontron in the northern Dordogne. Its outline is in the shape of an inverted comma pointing north with a nearly squarish main southern part turned into the NE-SW direction. The main body measures 15.5 kilometers in the NE-SW direction and 15 kilometers in the NW-SE direction and terminates in a tapering triangular section. This section continues farther north in an almost ten kilometer long appendix that is separated from the main body only by a very thin layer of migmatite, migmatitic gneiss. The granodiorite takes up about 250 square kilometers in surface area. Its lowest point has an elevation of 135 meters above sea level along the west ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Front-la-Rivière
Saint-Front-la-Rivière (; oc, Sent Front la Ribiera) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. The village center has a twelfth-century church, a bar, school, hairdressers and a post office. It also has four châteaux, dating from between the Middle Ages and the 19th century. These include the ruins of the Du Barry family château, the Château de la Renaudie, which dates from the time of François I. The Du Barrys were implicated in a plot to overthrow the monarch during the Wars of Religion. Chazelles, one of St Front's surrounding hamlets, was a mint in Gallo-Roman times, before the village came into being. La Varenne, another of St Front's hamlets, means 'game reserve'. Wild deer are often seen in the surrounding farmland. Population Economy In the 19th century St Front had a good reputation for the quality of its wine. There remain a few private but no commercial vineyards. An important contributor to the village's growth was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of France
The () is a level of administrative division in the French Republic. French are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada, ' in Germany, ' in Italy, or ' in Spain. The United Kingdom's equivalent are civil parishes, although some areas, particularly urban areas, are unparished. are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France. vary widely in size and area, from large sprawling cities with millions of inhabitants like Paris, to small hamlets with only a handful of inhabitants. typically are based on pre-existing villages and facilitate local governance. All have names, but not all named geographic areas or groups of people residing together are ( or ), the difference residing in the lack of administrative powers. Except for the municipal arrondi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plagioclase
Plagioclase is a series of tectosilicate (framework silicate) minerals within the feldspar group. Rather than referring to a particular mineral with a specific chemical composition, plagioclase is a continuous solid solution series, more properly known as the plagioclase feldspar series. This was first shown by the German mineralogist Johann Friedrich Christian Hessel (1796–1872) in 1826. The series ranges from albite to anorthite endmembers (with respective compositions NaAlSi3O8 to CaAl2Si2O8), where sodium and calcium atoms can substitute for each other in the mineral's crystal lattice structure. Plagioclase in hand samples is often identified by its polysynthetic crystal twinning or 'record-groove' effect. Plagioclase is a major constituent mineral in the Earth's crust, and is consequently an important diagnostic tool in petrology for identifying the composition, origin and evolution of igneous rocks. Plagioclase is also a major constituent of rock in the highlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mica Schist
Schist ( ) is a medium-grained metamorphic rock showing pronounced schistosity. This means that the rock is composed of mineral grains easily seen with a low-power hand lens, oriented in such a way that the rock is easily split into thin flakes or plates. This texture reflects a high content of platy minerals, such as micas, talc, chlorite, or graphite. These are often interleaved with more granular minerals, such as feldspar or quartz. Schist typically forms during regional metamorphism accompanying the process of mountain building (orogeny) and usually reflects a medium grade of metamorphism. Schist can form from many different kinds of rocks, including sedimentary rocks such as mudstones and igneous rocks such as tuffs. Schist metamorphosed from mudstone is particularly common and is often very rich in mica (a ''mica schist''). Where the type of the original rock (the protolith) is discernible, the schist is usually given a name reflecting its protolith, such as ''schistose met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennsylvanian (geology)
The Pennsylvanian ( , also known as Upper Carboniferous or Late Carboniferous) is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy, ICS geologic timescale, the younger of two period (geology), subperiods (or upper of two system (stratigraphy), subsystems) of the Carboniferous Period. It lasted from roughly . As with most other geochronology, geochronologic units, the stratum, rock beds that define the Pennsylvanian are well identified, but the exact date of the start and end are uncertain by a few hundred thousand years. The Pennsylvanian is named after the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, where the coal-productive beds of this age are widespread. The division between Pennsylvanian and Mississippian (geology), Mississippian comes from North American stratigraphy. In North America, where the early Carboniferous beds are primarily marine limestones, the Pennsylvanian was in the past treated as a full-fledged geologic period between the Mississippian and the Permian. In parts of Europe, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Mathieu Leucogranite
Saint-Mathieu (French for Saint Matthew) may refer to: Places France * Saint-Mathieu, Haute-Vienne * Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers, Hérault * Pointe Saint-Mathieu, a headland in Brittany Canada * Saint-Mathieu, Quebec * Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil, Quebec * Saint-Mathieu-d'Harricana, Quebec * Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc, Quebec Buildings and structures * Abbaye Saint-Mathieu de Fine-Terre, a former Breton monastery at Pointe Saint-Mathieu, Brittany * Saint-Mathieu Lighthouse, at Pointe Saint-Mathieu, Brittany * Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil Aerodrome, Quebec * Saint-Mathieu-de-Laprairie Aerodrome, Quebec Other * Battle of Saint-Mathieu (10 August 1512), part of the War of the League of Cambrai See also * San Mateo (other) * Sant Mateu (other) * São Mateus (other) São Mateus is Portuguese for Saint Matthew, and may refer to one of the following places: Brazil *São Mateus, Espírito Santo, a municipality and a city in the state of Espírito Santo * São Mateus, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leucogranite
Leucogranite is a light-colored, granitic, igneous rock containing almost no dark minerals. Alaskite is a synonym. Leucogranites have been reported from a variety of orogenies involving continental collisions. Examples include the ( of Proterozoic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granodiorite
Granodiorite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock similar to granite, but containing more plagioclase feldspar than orthoclase feldspar. The term banatite is sometimes used informally for various rocks ranging from granite to diorite, including granodiorite. Composition According to the QAPF diagram, granodiorite has a greater than 20% quartz by volume, and between 65% and 90% of the feldspar is plagioclase. A greater amount of plagioclase would designate the rock as tonalite. Granodiorite is felsic to intermediate in composition. It is the intrusive igneous equivalent of the extrusive igneous dacite. It contains a large amount of sodium (Na) and calcium (Ca) rich plagioclase, potassium feldspar, quartz, and minor amounts of muscovite mica as the lighter colored mineral components. Biotite and amphiboles often in the form of hornblende are more abundant in granodiorite than in granite, giving it a more distinct two-toned or overall darker appearan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paragneiss
Gneiss ( ) is a common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock. It is formed by high-temperature and high-pressure metamorphic processes acting on formations composed of igneous or sedimentary rocks. Gneiss forms at higher temperatures and pressures than schist. Gneiss nearly always shows a banded texture characterized by alternating darker and lighter colored bands and without a distinct cleavage. Gneisses are common in the ancient crust of continental shields. Some of the oldest rocks on Earth are gneisses, such as the Acasta Gneiss. Description Orthogneiss from the Czech Republic In traditional English and North American usage, a gneiss is a coarse-grained metamorphic rock showing compositional banding ( gneissic banding) but poorly developed schistosity and indistinct cleavage. In other words, it is a metamorphic rock composed of mineral grains easily seen with the unaided eye, which form obvious compositional layers, but which has only a weak tendency to fractur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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