Mountainous Beziers

Below is the extremely impressive Viaduct de Millau, which transports the A75 motorway from the area of Clermont-Ferraud southward to Beziers. Using this motorway is a cheaper form of transportation compared to tunneling through the countryside hills, as well as a faster one. The trip can be shortened by 100km and as much as four hours!



Viaduct de Millau

 One can take notice that the river lay in a flat basin between two large hillsides. I can only imagine how much sedimentary rock, which comes from the accumulation of sediment in layers before a process of hardening, uplift and erosion, has settled in the bottom of that river! One day I hope to travel on the Viaduct de Millau and take in that beautiful view.



The Black Mountains

I also admire the many hillsides in the picture above. I find the process of normal faulting, which created the large mountain chains in the background, fascinating. How lucky those homes are to have such a gorgeous landscape around them!




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