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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 186. Not illustrated. Chapters: Aquitanian Basin, Bidasoa Basin, Charente Basin, Coastal Basins of the French Basque Country, Loire Basin, Sevre Niortaise Basin, Vilaine Basin, Cher, Thouet, Kaolin Deposits of Charentes Basin, France, Vienne, Leyre, Allier, Boutonne, Seugne, Creuse, Erdre, Petite Creuse, Oudon, Sarthe, Layon, Bouzanne, Benaize, Arconce, Anglin, Semnon, Indre, Tardes, Bouble, Mayenne, Lignon Du Velay, Meu, Uhabia, Sevre Nantaise, Senouire, Briance, Verzee, Vaige, Bourbince, Chapeauroux, Lignon Du Forez, Sevre Niortaise, Chere, Salleron, Brame, Vegre, Alene, Clouere, Cosson, Indrois, Semme, Airain, Arz, Vauvise, Rere, Gartempe, Oust, Sioule, Abloux, Maine, Ille, Huisne, Aron, Arroux, Beuvron, Besbre, Untxin, Tardoire, Clain, Boudigau, Arnon, Dore, Furan, Loiret, Antenne, Bonnieure, Ternin River. Excerpt: Loire (river) - The name "Loire" comes from Latin Liger, which is itself a transcription of the native Gaulish (Celtic) name of the river. The Gaulish name comes from the Gaulish word liga, which means "silt, sediment, deposit, alluvium," a word that gave French lie, as in sur lie, which in turn gave English lees. Liga comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *legh-, meaning "to lie, lay," which gave many words in English, such as to lie, to lay, ledge, law, etc. In French the adjective derived from the river is ligerien, as in le climat ligerien ("the climate of the Loire Valley"), a climate considered the most pleasant of northern France, with warmer winters and, more generally, fewer extremes in temperatures, rarely exceeding 38 C (100 F). The Loire in Orleans. Looking towards central Tours from the north bank of the River Loire.Studies of the paleogeography of the region suggest that in the Pleistocene the paleo-Loire continued its northward flow and joined the Seine, while the lower Loire found its source up...
