View of the Gavinello valley, district of Ronca, Vicentin, northern Italy. The lowest horizontal layer AA is composed of earth and marine sand. On this layer rests a large mass BB of ferruginous black basalt configured in vertical columns. Vue de la Vallee du Gavinello district de Ronca dans le Vicentin. Copperplate engraving 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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