Category: 2023-women
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Stage 8: The future of the past
The future of the past is a bit cryptic. It’s where geology comes in to predict the future climates looking at the past.
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Stage 7: Stressed
Mountain are like people. They get stressed and sometimes even a complete meltdown. The Pyrenees show what happened then.
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Stage 6: Eels
Conodonts are eel-like animals but they are extinct. The last fact helps us learn about geological time scales in great precision.
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Stage 5: Rock it
Our race course today will rock it. Literally. The geological history of the Tarn and Aveyron at your footsteps, or wheels.
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Stage 4: Fossils
Fossils can be found in all of France. We find a lot along the Lot river in today’s stage due to the special geological circumstances here.
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Stage 3: Hard rocks
Eclogite is one of the hardest rocks there is. Yvonne Brière used these hard rocks to prove her thesis to become a female pioneer in geology.
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Stage 2: Sparks
Another of volcanoes in the Massif Central but the sparks have long gone. Hopefully the race will add some sparks!
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Stage 1: Volcanic cathedral
At the Grand Départ in Clermont Ferrand we find a volcanic cathedral built with materials from the nearby Chaine des Puys.
