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The region usually regarded as the Paris Basin is rather smaller than the area formed by the geological structure. The former occupies the centre of the northern half of the country, excluding Eastern France. The latter extends from the hills just south of
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means 'lousy' that is, 'infested with lice' but its meaning has broadened in use to include 'down and out'. This is a region of thin, chalk soils and little surface water. The epithet indicates the extreme poverty of the region when the name was
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Duval, B.C., 1992, Villeperdue Field, In Giant Oil and Gas Fields of the Decade, 1978-1988, AAPG Memoir 54, Halbouty, M.T., editor, Tulsa: American Association of Petroleum Geologists,
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Due to the millions of years of later deposition, erosion and other changes since, five drainage basins today drain almost all of the Basin.
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To the west, the strata folded by the Variscan rise below the more recent marine deposits in the hills of
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It forms a broad shallow bowl in which marine deposits from throughout periods from the
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recognized in the basin's strata during the 1820s and 1830s, the pioneering geologist
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were laid down. Their extent generally decreases with time. Based on analysis of
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These are two flowing north, the basins/specified parts of basins as follows:
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to the west, the Ardennes-Brabant axis to the north, the
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Carte Géologique de la France à l'Échelle du Millionième
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France
Triassic
Variscan orogeny
sedimentary basin
drainage basin
craton
Armorican Massif
Massif des Vosges
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