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Promenade Géologique à Grenoble [A Geological Walk around Grenoble]

Walking / Outdoor Guide Geology Guide
By: Jacques Bouffette(Author), Jérôme Nomade(Author), Emmanuel Robert(Author)
44 pages, colour photos
Publisher: BIOTOPE
Promenade Géologique à Grenoble [A Geological Walk around Grenoble]
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Promenade Géologique à Grenoble [A Geological Walk around Grenoble]

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Language: French

Walking along the streets of the city center of Grenoble, southeastern France, let this booklet be your guide and offer you a unique discovery, combining human and geological history. At the foot of the Vercors, Chartreuse and Belledonne, and in the middle of an alluvial plain at the confluence of the rivers Drac and Isère, early regional geological materials have been used in the construction of Grenoble, and they offer excellent quality for its monuments, houses, dams, and bridges. The buildings of Grenoble illustrate this story and demonstrate the diversity of rocks used.

This guide invites you to a walk through three different time periods. The geological time-frame retrieves the history of the city through the description of the origins and uses of stone used for buildings, monuments and cobblestoned streets. The geographical time-frame allows the reader to reconstruct the history of the landscapes. Finally, the historical time-frame traces the urbanization and seeks to better understand the men who worked on its construction. Anecdotes and architectural details previously gone unnoticed, will make you see sites in a new light. The guide illustrates the diversity of materials used by our predecessors to build buildings. It appears that the choice of these materials obeyed both successive stages, economic constraints (nearby quarries, ease of transport of stones, etc.) and technical constraints (durability, yield, etc.)

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A l'occasion d'une balade au fil des rues du centre-ville de Grenoble, ce fascicule propose une découverte inédite, alliant l'étonnante cohabitation des deux histoires humaine et géologique. Au pied des massifs du Vercors, de la Chartreuse et de Belledonne, et au coeur d'une plaine alluviale à la confluence de l'Isère et du Drac, Grenoble a très tôt utilisé les matériaux géologiques régionaux, d'excellente qualité, pour ses monuments, ses maisons, ses digues, ses ponts. Le bâti grenoblois illustre cette histoire et témoigne de la diversité des roches utilisée.

Ce guide vous invite à une promenade à trois temps. Le temps du géologue permet de retrouver l'histoire de la ville au travers de la description, des origines et des usages des pierres utilisées pour les bâtiments, les monuments et les pavés des ruelles. Le temps du géographe reconstitue pour le lecteur l'histoire des paysages. Enfin, celui de l'historien retrace l'urbanisation et cherche à mieux connaître les hommes qui ont travaillé à son édification. Anecdotes et détails architecturaux jusqu'alors passés inaperçus, font voir le site sous un jour nouveau. Le propos illustre la diversité des matériaux utilisés par nos prédécesseurs pour construire les bâtiments. Il apparaît que le choix de ces matériaux a obéi aussi bien à des modes successives qu’à des contraintes économiques (proximité des carrières, facilité du transport des pierres, etc.) et techniques (dureté, débit, etc.)

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Walking / Outdoor Guide Geology Guide
By: Jacques Bouffette(Author), Jérôme Nomade(Author), Emmanuel Robert(Author)
44 pages, colour photos
Publisher: BIOTOPE
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