Perte du Rhone
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Perte-du-Rhône (Loss of the Rhone). North of Bellegarde-sur-Valserine there is a sixty metre deep fault into which the Rhone used to disappear during the dry season. In 1948 the Génissiat Dam was built south of Bellegarde and the perte du Rhône was transformed in a reservoir twenty three kilometre long from Génissiat to the Swiss border.[1] A similar feature called pertes de la Valserine still exits in the same area.[2][1]
In 1854 Eugène Renevier professor of geology and paleontology in the University of Lausanne, with F. J. Pictet wrote Fossiles du terrain aptien de la Perte-du-Rhone.
