National heritage will soon allow new members. Alongside
churches, castles, small flowers, trees and birds, there will be
stones. It is precisely that come to the French geologists, last
week. The history museum natural, the mining Office BRGM and the
State launched the inventory of resources across the national
territory. "Geological history of Earth, it shapes the
landscape. But this heritage is well known and less protected
than others", argues Pierre Nehlig's BRGM. The democracy of
proximity (read opposite) Act of 27 February 2002 legally
registered the duty of this census. Researchers rely on
associations and local communities to perform this work of Ant
for years. BRGM developed software to help geologists to field
to describe sites or expand the information on those already
well known. This program will not shock the scientific
knowledge. As Patrick De Wever of the Museum, geologists scour
mass for two centuries. Specialized maps exist for a long time
and the BRGM end in 2009 mapping in 60 France to 50