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Article: Teaching nature amid the French mountains.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 1994
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THE Cevennes region of France lies at the southern end of the Massif Central only a few hours drive from Nimes and the Mediterranean coast. it is a region of steep slopes clothed in oak and beech, the rounded summits of the mountains stretching away from you in hazy blue waves like combers coming in to a shore. Great plateaux rise up from the rugged hills and are in turn bisected by deep gorges and pocked with caves and swallow holes. The varied landscape is a product of the complex geology of the area. The high plateaux are formed of soft limestone through which rivers such as the Tarn and Lot have cut their dramatic gorges. These rivers are born, not on limestone, but ...
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