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Mount Thélod also called "The Volcano" Mount rises to 450 meters at a place called "the pillar". This volcano has never spit lava, the latter being spread on the surface. The eruption dating back to seventy million years, occurred at a higher level of several hundred meters from the current level, so that erosion has left only traces of the two chimneys has an altitude of 360 meters. You can see the traces on aerial photographs. But speaking as a pillar, do you know that in fact the building is facing you turn is a geodesic, it is even referenced as "Thélod I" by IGN (National Geographical Institute). Geodesy is to study the shape and dimensions of the earth. As for fireplaces are geodesic, or rather were before the aerial photography, high marks on top of which an operator could perform a highly accurate, with the passage of a plumb line in and throughout the height of the column. Thus protected from the wind swirls, this thread should be aligned in the axis of a terminal which was one of the items secretly guarded by the army of the time "maps of Staff." Now obsolete, these markers have been removed or are forgotten. At first brick, stone and cement, and finally, the top remains unknown to the general public, still remember the days when wars helping, we got down to map priority areas of the forehead. Thus the fifty laps recorded by the National Geographic Institute, most of these relics is found in northern and eastern Paris Basin. If the subject interests you you can through the geocaching visit another tour in the region: Tower of geodesic GC1ZGEC Grunch pressure of Ancerville (direction Saint Dizier) Have a good discovery
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