Saint-Romain-et-Saint-Clément

Saint- Romain -et -Saint -Clément ( okz. Sent Róman e Sent Clamenç ) is a commune of 320 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) in the Dordogne in the Aquitaine region. It is one of ten municipalities in the canton Thiviers.

Geography

Saint- Romain -et -Saint -Clément (or the district of Saint -Romain ) is located three miles west of Thiviers and twelve kilometers southeast of Saint- Pardoux- la -Rivière away (air line). The community is surrounded by the following neighboring communities:

• Saint- Jory- de -Chalais in the North
• Thiviers in the East
• Vaunac in the south (only one point of contact )
• Saint -Jean -de- Côle in the West
• Saint -Martin -de- Fressengeas in the northwest.

In addition to the towns of Saint- Romain and Saint- Clément, the municipality consists of the following hamlets, farms and a mill:

Chez Barancle, Dala, Faugeraulas, Firbeix, Fraisse, Fressenède, Jalager, La Basse Fressenède, La Baraque, La Chabanne, La Foret, La Grange, La Lardie, La Pomerède, La Richardie, La Rochette, La Verdale, Lavergne, Le Bigeau, Le Bost, le Chadeau, Le Cros, Le Fagnac, Le Peyrou, Le Prieuré, Le Puel, Les Brandes, Les Fouillarjoux, Les Grandes Terres, Les Peyrières, Les Rochilles, Les Vergnes, Maizaraud, Moulin de Feuyas and Poncet.

The northern part of the municipality is crossed by the coming from the north Côle. They initially forms the eastern border to Saint- Jory- de -Chalais and Thiviers. In Jalager they shift to the west southwest and then pulls north past the village. Through the southern section at Saint -Clément runs in the direction of the West coming from the community Thiviers Ruisseau de Bonis. The southwestern border with Poncet is made from dehydrated in a northwesterly direction Ruisseau de la Font Pepie. Both latter streams are left arms of Côle.

The topographically lowest point in the municipal area of 147 meters above sea level, lies to the west of the village of Saint- Romain at the Côle, leaving the community here. The highest point of 268 meters located at Faugeraulas in the north. The absolute difference in altitude is 121 meters.

The municipality of Saint- Romain -et -Saint -Clément is neighboring community to the Périgord -Limousin Regional Natural Park.

Geology

The Côletal in the north is accompanied by metamorphic basement rocks of the north-western Massif Central ( Lower Gneiss ceiling and Thiviers - Payzac Unit ). At the bottom are mica schist, the north of the village of Saint- Romain pending in Côletal zwischenFaugeraulas and La Rochette well. In it switched are small amphibolite and Eklogitzüge, in southern mica shale deposits are found also serpentinites. In Leptynite follow the arc of Saint- Yrieix that have emerged from the Ordovician granites. Open-minded they are at Faugeraulas and northwest of the village of Saint- Romain. The mica schist are advanced along the Côletals of the Thiviers sandstone from the Thiviers - Payzac Unit in North West direction. Composed of former Rhyodaziten Thiviers sandstone occurs here primarily on the facies of Payzac quartzite. It contains a small amphibolite and Metakeratophyrvorkommen at La Chabanne. The garnet- bearing amphibolite continues as a train continued to the northeast.

The metamorphic rocks have in places reached the Isograd of Disthens, but generally belong to the Staurolithzone. Predominant strike of the metamorphic foliation is northeast.

The basement rocks were transgrediert of flat-lying Jurassic sediments of the northern Aquitaine basin. The layer package consists in a Lias ( Unterhettang ) and ends in the Dogger ( Unterbathon ). The sediments are north of Côle to the village of Saint- Romain, in the valley of the Ruisseau de Bonis and in the valley of the Ruisseau de la Font Pepie. The altitudes of the valleys are generally covered by upper pleistocene, colluvial gravel masses. In stratigraphically highest position there are fluviatile gravels of former river courses, which may date back to the Pliocene; to see at Dala, Le Peyrou, between La Pommerède and Fressenède and south of Saint -Clément. In the river valley of Côle rezentes alluvium was deposited.

The municipality is located in the influence area of ​​the south- trending border fault of the Massif Central, which has been split here in more side branches and smaller transverse fractures. Their influence is manifested in a set have silicification of the Lias and Dogger recrystallization.

At La Chabanne a local pyrite mass ( Iron hat) was mined in the 19th century in the mica schists, which supplied several thousand tons of ore.