Crater of the Cup Aizac mountain with lava flow creating a prismatic basalt pavement. In the Vivarais or Ardeche range. After an engraving by Veyrenc in Barthelemy Faujas de Saint-Fond's Recherches sur les volcans, 1778. Cratere de la montagne de la Coupe avec un courant de lave qui donne naissance a un pave de basalte prismatique: dans le Vivarais. Copperplate engraving by Giuseppe Dall'Acqua from Scipion Breislak’s Traite sur la Structure Exterieure du Globe, Treatise on the Exterior Structure of the Globe, Jean-Pierre Giegler, Milan, 1822.

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