The publications of the geoparc La Hague

The Geoparc La Hague also offers publications for all audiences, including the most informed, in the field of geology, but also local buildings. Tools that can also serve as a guide and pretext for a ride.

The architecture of the Hague. An inheritance heritage

Inhabited since prehistoric times, the Hague peninsula was shaped by the women and men who succeeded each other. This territory, rural and coast, is characterized by a mosaic of reliefs, agricultural and natural environments, a diversity of landscapes and architectures which give it a singular identity. Its numerous villages and dispersed hamlets still maintain ancient constructions testifying to the social origin of the inhabitants, traditional know-how as well as lifestyles and past economic activities. Its architectural heritage also reflects the richness of its geological subsoil. The sandstones, the arkoses, the shales, the granites or the gneiss used thus make it possible to distinguish such a hamlet of another.

This work invites you to discover the diversity of the built heritage of the Hague, whether buildings for domestic, religious use, agricultural and artisanal buildings, hydraulic works or even equipment related to fraud and smuggling.

The guide to geological curiosities of geoparc La Hague

The Guide du Géoparc La Hague completes the BRGM Geological Curiosities Collection, intended for all audiences who wishes to discover stones and landscapes and learn about the geology of French territories. The opportunity for a walk where geology is mixed with the history of man and biodiversity.

The twenty-five sites of this guide constitute witnesses of this extraordinary geological richness: there is a variety of geological phenomena such as magmatism and the fusion of the entrails of the earth, the glaciations and fluctuations of the sea level or the expression of tectonics during compressions. The geological heritage of the Hague is also expressed by its building, each village and hamlet, having its geological identity visible through building materials.

The geoparc geological map La Hague with an educational vocation

The educational map of the geoparc La Hague is aimed at connoisseurs wishing to complete the guide or simply study this emblematic sector of learning geology in France. Among other things, it includes the oldest rocks in France (Gneiss Icartiens), aged just over two billion years, as well as the Flamanville granite, much younger with only 318 million years.

She joined the latest knowledge from research projects carried out in recent years, including in marine geology, and presents pretty subjects of studies to reconstruct a rich geological history.