EXCURSION TO THE HEART OF VOLCANOES
A day full scholarship at the Puy de Lemptégy, Discover the mysteries of the creation of our planet, volcanology ...
Geology is the science of permanent riddle: a landscape covered with vegetation, observation points are rare, apart from human works most often transients. A career is still exceptional access to the third dimension, so an anatomy lesson in the basement. But it is unique, the richness and variety of lessons it brings. Certainly, by exploiting old more than fifty years, who emptied his shoes off until fire is the basic anatomy of a volcano type "cinder cone" that is given to us discover here. But the content goes beyond: there are two volcanoes that have occurred on the site itself there are 30 000 years. The first is torn, dislocated and collapsed while he was drunken with its immediate neighbor, the Puy Drops. The second was in turn buried under the products emitted successively by two of his other neighbors: first, on the south side of the Puy de Côme, there are more than 11,500 years, while a cold climate prohibited and the development of vegetation and then, on the north side of the puy Chopine, here 9500 years while warming had facilitated the restoration of forest cover. It is therefore to explore the story of five eruptions that invites you to visit the route of "Volcano Open Air."
Lunch At Puy de Lemptégy