Key facts
- Elevation
- 1,465 m (4,806 ft)
- Prominence
- 485 m (1,591 ft)
- Isolation
- 18.41 km (11.44 mi), to Puy de l ' Aiguiller
- Location
- Puy-de-Dôme , Auvergne , France
- Parent range
- Chaîne des Puys region of Massif Central
- Mountain type
- Lava dome
- Last eruption
- c. 10,700 years ago
- First ascent
- Unknown
- Easiest route
- road
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- scenic viewpoint
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Orcines
- Continent
- Europe
- Elevation
- 1465
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Location
- Massif Central
- Image
- Aerial image of Puy de Dôme (view from the west).jpg
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- Commons category
- Puy de Dôme (mountain)
- heritage designation
- Grand site de France
- Commons gallery
- Puy de Dôme
- mountain range
- Chaîne des Puys
- webcam page URL
- wwwobs.univ-bpclermont.fr/opgc/webcam.php
- topographic prominence
- 485
- topographic isolation
- 18.41
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Encyclopedic overview
Puy de Dôme ( US: /ˌpwiː də ˈdoʊm/, French: [pɥi də dom] ) 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. It is approximately 10 km (6 miles) from Clermont-Ferrand. The Puy-de-Dôme département is named after the volcano.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Puy de Dôme” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.