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Puy de Dôme
View on map:45.700000°N 3.217000°E
Description
Puy de Dôme
Puy de Dôme
(
US
:
/
ˌ
p
w
iː
d
ə
ˈ
d
oʊ
m
/
,
[3]
French:
[pɥi də dom]
(
listen
)
;
Auvergnat
:
Puèi Domat
[ˈpœj duˈma(t)]
or
Puèi de Doma
[ˈpœj də ˈdumɔ]
) is a
lava dome
and one of the youngest
volcanoes
in the
Chaîne des Puys
region of
Massif Central
in central
France
. This chain of volcanoes including numerous
cinder cones
,
lava domes
and
maars
is far from the edge of any
tectonic plate
. Puy de Dôme was created by a
Peléan eruption
, some 10,700 years ago. Puy de Dôme is approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) from
Clermont-Ferrand
. The
Puy-de-Dôme
département
is named after the volcano.
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puy de Dôme
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