CHARENTE-MARITIME. Manuscript entitled "Description géologiq - Lot 89

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CHARENTE-MARITIME. Manuscript entitled "Description géologiq - Lot 89
CHARENTE-MARITIME. Manuscript entitled "Description géologique et minéralurgique de la Charente-Inférieure par M. W. Manès". [1853]. 31 pp. in-folio, accompanied by a handwritten folding map on tracing paper (58 x 37 cm). Important study by William MANÈS (Saujon in Charente-Maritime 1798-1881), geologist and mining engineer. Physical description (location, extent, population, composition and configuration of the soil, springs and rivers, meteorology). Geological description (minerals, rocks, divisions into terrains, composition of Jurassic terrain, composition of Cretaceous terrain, composition of alluvial terrain). Mineralurgical description (quarries and mines, sands, clays, marls, gypsum stones, limestone, building stones, paving stones, iron mines, peat bogs). Mineral and metallurgical plants (tile and brick factories, potteries and earthenware factories, glass factories, plaster kilns, lime kilns, salt marshes, ironworks). State of the values created by the various branches of the mineral industry. William Manès is also the author of a Description géologique et industrielle du département de la Haute-Vienne (1833), a work in which he described the meteorite impact crater of Rochechouart-Chassenon.
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