Puy de Dôme was created by a Peléan eruption, some 10,700 years ago. Puy de Dôme is approximately 10 km (6 miles) from Clermont-Ferrand. The Puy-de-Dôme département is named after the volcano.
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The town is on the border of a chain of volcanoes, Chaîne des Puys, with the most famous dormant volcano named Puy de Dome. It's also just a 10-kilometre drive ...
... crater. A lava flow traveled 8 km W to near the present-day city of Clermont-Ferrand. The sharper peak in the background is Puy de Chopine, whose complex ...
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Due to its geological youth, the complex is deemed to be dormant rather than extinct, meaning that a new phase of volcanism is possible. The Chaîne des Puys is ...
Auvergne is in the Massif Central, a land of 450 dormant volcanoes spread in the Chaîne des Puys, Monts Dore, Artense, Cézallier and Monts du Cantal.