Theoretical cross-section of geological formations and terrains: granitic, schistose, carboniferous, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Supercretaceous, chysmian, pyroide, and volcanic. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by J. J. Huot from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle (Picturesque Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1834-39.

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