Cluster of basalt prisms near St Sanduox. Basalt mass, Pereneire, Auvergne, France. Copied from an engraving in Diderot's Encyclopedie. Amas basaltique de Pereneire en Auvergne. Copperplate engraving by Milanese painter Gaetano Riboldi 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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