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roughly 35 million years ago. The region has a wide variety of geologic features formed by the rifting. The mountain chain itself began to form approximately 95,000 years ago, and the volcanic activity that formed the range stopped about 10,000 years ago. The majority of the cones were formed by
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Jouannic, G.; Walter-Simonnet, A.V.; Bossuet, G.; Cubizolle, H.; Boivin, P.; Devidal, J.-L.; Oberlin, C. (2014). "Occurrence of an unknown Atlantic eruption in the Chaîne des Puys volcanic field (Massif Central, France)".
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in 1858. These books were the first widely published descriptions of the Chaîne des Puys, and the analysis therein laid the foundation for many of the basic principles of volcanology.
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Before 1750 and the chain's identification as volcanic, the Puys were rumored to be man-made mounds of mining waste or Roman forge furnaces.
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Memoir on the Geology of Central France, including the Volcanic formations of Auvergne, the Velay and the Vivarais
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Future eruptions at the Chaîne des Puys are possible and would result in the formation of new mountains.
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Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe
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The chain was the subject of the pioneering research of English geologist
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The Chaîne des Puys is located on the Limagne fault, a major part of the
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An outstanding example of plate tectonics in action and continental
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Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)
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Volcanologie de la Chaîne des Puys, Massif Central Français
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Prehistoric sites and decorated caves of the Vézère valley
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Scheffel, Richard L.; Wernet, Susan J., eds. (1980).
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Elevation
Puy de Dôme
Coordinates
45°30′N 2°48′E / 45.5°N 2.8°E / 45.5; 2.8
Chaîne des Puys is located in France
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
France
Parent range
Massif Central
Age of rock
Mountain type
cinder cones
lava domes
maars
Last eruption
UNESCO World Heritage Site
1434
Western Europe
[ʃɛːndepɥi]
Puys
cinder cones
lava domes
maars
Massif Central
France
volcanic field
Puy de Dôme
puy
rifting

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