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Location
Village of Prinçay in the department of VIENNE
(86) to the west of RICHELIEU.
Reopening of the quarry in 1988.
Geology
Vayolles Tuffo is from the Second Cretacious Era.
It is part of the Turorian Shelf.
It is 90.000.000 years old.
Vayolles Tuffo is a sedementary rock, a limestone of
a luminious and chalky variety, beige-white in color.
It is used mostly for restouration way in the valley
of the Loire river, and in the region of Anjou and Nantes
mainly for walls and other massive structures.
Vayolles Tuffo is extracted with a roterary arm saw. |
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