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Pont du Gard

First-century Roman aqueduct bridge over the Gardon in southern France, part of the channel that carried water to the Roman city of Nîmes.

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Limescale in the Pont du Gard aqueduct traces 300 years of water crises and one deliberate diversion

Hard water left annual layers inside the channel that fed Nimes. A Mainz team sampled them at ten points to date the Roman decisions about who received the water and when the city stopped getting any.

Publishers:phys.org

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