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Puy () is a term used locally in the Auvergne, for a . The word derives from the Provençal puech, meaning an isolated hill, coming from Latin podium, which has given also puig in Catalan, poggio in Italian, poio in Galician and Portuguese.

Most of the puys of central France are small , with or without associated , whilst others are domes of rock, like the of the Puy-de-Dôme. The puys may be scattered as isolated hills, or, as is more usual, clustered together, sometimes in lines. The chain of puys in central France probably became extinct in late prehistoric time.

Other volcanic hills more or less like those of Auvergne are also known to geologists as puys; examples may be found in the and in the small cones on the Bay of Naples, whilst the relics of puys denuded by erosion are numerous in the of Württemberg, as pointed out by W. Branco. Sir has shown that the puy type of eruption was common in the British area in and times, as abundantly attested in central by remains of the old volcanoes, now generally reduced by to the mere neck, or volcanic vent, filled with and , or plugged with lava.


See also
  • Puig (disambiguation)

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