General Soils

Question 1

How many soils in Alsace?

Answer 1

13

Question 2

Soils of slopes of the Vosges?

Answer 2

Granite, Schist, some volcanic

Question 3

Soils on the Vosges foothills?

Answer 3

Limestone
Sandstone
Marls

Question 4

Soils on the Rhine/Alsace Plain?

Answer 4

Alluvium
Loess/loam
Colluvium

Question 5

Soils of Champagne

Answer 5

Chalk
Limestone marls
Sand and Clay

Question 6

Champagne Chalk types

Answer 6

Belemite - squid - BEST
Micraster - sea urchins

Question 7

Primary soil in Languedoc?

Answer 7

Limestone “garrique”
Hills-pockets of granite
Low-iron-rich sedimentary

Question 8

Main soils of Bergerac?

Answer 8

Clay and Limestone

Question 9

Fronton soils?

Answer 9

Boulbenes - sandy clay

Question 10

What are the soils of Cahor?

Answer 10

Limestone - Causses Plateau
Gravelly slopes

Question 11

What are Provence main soil types?

Answer 11

E - Crystal Schist
M - Volcanic
W - Limestone

Question 12

What is the soil type of Mt Estrel in Provence?

Answer 12

Volcanic

Question 13

What is the soil type of Mt Maures in Provence?

Answer 13

Granite

Question 14

What are the soil types of most Provence mountains other than Esterel and Maures

Answer 14

Limestone

Question 15

What are the 2 soils associated with scrub brush in S France eg Provence and Languadoc?

Answer 15

Garrigue - limestone
Maquis - quartz schist

Question 16

Northern Rhone

Answer 16

Granite, mica shicst and granitic sand

Question 17

Where are the oldest soils found in Bourgogne?

Answer 17

Maconnais

Question 18

What are wind blown sediments?

Answer 18

Aeolian

Question 19

What are sandy soils composed of weathered feldspars, micas, quartz found in Beaujolais?

Answer 19

Arène / Gorrhe

Question 20

Clay and limestone soils found in Tourraine?

Answer 20

Aubuis

Question 21

Reef-like mounds of earth composed of fossilized corals, starfish and mollusks most famous around Pouilly-Fuisse?

Answer 21

Bioherm

Question 22

What is a thin bed of shale or marl interspersed with sandstone?

Answer 22

Flysch

Question 23

What are sandy clay conglomerates (rounded gravels formed by glaciers) called in SW France?

Answer 23

Boulbènes

Question 24

What are small limestone pebbles from Portlandian marl in Centre-Loire eg Sancerre & Pouilly Fume?

Answer 24

Caillottes

Question 25

What is a type of porous limestone found in Champagne?

Answer 25

Chalk

Question 26

What are soils that are developed from rain-driven slope wash?

Answer 26

Colluvial

Question 27

What are soils formed from river sediments?

Answer 27

Alluvial

Question 28

What is a short or shallow valley, usually dry, with in a limestone escarpment?

Answer 28

Coomb

Question 29

What is the French word for slope?

Answer 29

Côte

Question 30

What are the underground ancient quarries found in Champagne called?

Answer 30

Crayères

Question 31

What is a cliff-like ridge of land formed by folding called?

Answer 31

Escarpment

Question 32

Large round stoned found in SW, Languedoc and Rhône regions?

Answer 32

Galets

Question 33

What is high grade metamorphic rock, meaning that it has been subjected to higher temperatures and pressures than schist?

Answer 33

Gneiss

Question 34

What are limestone and soils derived from limestone that are so poor they can only support scrub bush found in S France?

Answer 34

Garrigue

Question 35

What is an igneous rock formed of quartz formed from compressed ancient magma?

Answer 35

Granite

Question 36

What is bedrock that has dropped down parallel between two fault lines?

Answer 36

Rift Valley or Graben

Question 37

What is rock formed through cooling and solidification of magma or lava?

Answer 37

Igneous rock

Question 38

What are sedimentary soils composed of fosslized and compacted marine life?

Answer 38

Limestone

Question 39

What are fine wind-blown soil deposits usually comprised of silt and sand?

Answer 39

Loess

Question 40

Similar to garrique with poor soils with the ability to only support scrub brush from acidic, crystalline schist?

Answer 40

Maquis

Question 41

What is a soil of clay and limestone that hardened over time?

Answer 41

Marl

Question 42

What are landforms that manifest as a cluster of mountains, and high elevation plateaus?

Answer 42

Massif

Question 43

What are flinty-clay soils found in Touraine and Central Loire?

Answer 43

Perruches aka Silex

Question 44

Known as the golden stone which are broken limestone with iron-oxide found in Beuajolais?

Answer 44

Pierres Dorées

Question 45

What is the name for galets in Juançon?

Answer 45

Poudingues

Question 46

These are decomposed schist meaning “rotten rocks” found in Morgon?

Answer 46

Roches Pourries

Question 47

And iron-rich clay-limestone soil found in Marcillac?

Answer 47

Rougiers

Question 48

What is a type of soil composed of quartz sand that are cemented over time?

Answer 48

Sandstone

Question 49

What are soils that are formed from clay that has been compressed within the earth’s crust?

Answer 49

Schist

Question 50

in Centre-Loire what are the Kimeridgean marl rich soils that are oyster fossils?

Answer 50

Terres Blanches

Question 51

What is a porous limestone found in the Middle Loire?

Answer 51

Tuffeau

Question 52

What are volcanic soils found in Beaujolais (specifically Brouilly)?

Answer 52

Diorite

Question 53

What are the 4 main soil types of Centre/Upper Loire

Answer 53

Caillottes-limestone pebbles
Terrese Blanches
Silex-flint
Sandy Gravel

Question 54

What type of wines are produced in soils of silex?

Answer 54

Gunflint aromas

Question 55

What type of wines are produced in soils of caillottes?

Answer 55

Perfume that mature quickly

Question 56

What type of wines are produced in soils of terres blanches?

Answer 56

Power wines that age