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For the Paris Basin is protected particularly to the east by a number of concentric circular outcroppings known as cuestas, with the steep faces sloping outward and the gentle faces sloping inward.
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Eight distinct cuestas lie between Paris and the Rhine�which means that German invaders must fight their way over eight natural obstructions.
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In 1914 the Germans outflanked the obstructive cuestas by slipping into the Paris Basin from the Flanders Plain, where the stony outcroppings tend to disappear.
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Now in addition to the cuestas, the Paris Basin is defended by the man-made Maginot Line, which extends not only along the Rhine but the full length of the Belgian border to the sea.
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Prominent features of the landscape are cuestas, such as Mesa Verde, and laccoliths, such as Ute Peak.
From Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomys bottae, in Colorado by Youngman, Phillip M.