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3 unusual facts about Donzenac


Thiviers-Payzac Unit

The schist crops out in a 3 kilometer wide, slightly curved band that starts at the type locality Donzenac and extends to Lanouaille.

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The unit starts just west of Thiviers in the northern Dordogne and then follows for 70 kilometres a semicircular arc segment, passing through Lanouaille, Payzac, Orgnac, Donzenac and finishing just east of Brive in the Corrèze.

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The prekinematic Saut-du-Saumon orthogneiss is a 15 kilometer long, very drawn out, squid-like, NW-SE-striking granitic body, whose tail starts at Donzenac in the south and whose tentacles end in the Orgnac region near the river Loyre.


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