Puy
(pwē)
(geology) A small, remnant volcanic cone.
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The French term for a volcanic neck, revealed by differential erosion. The type location is the Puy de Dôme. The Hohentweil, Hegau, Germany, is a further example.
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Name for literary and musical societies founded mainly in northern France from the 12th century to the early 17th and the contests they held. It probably derives from the Latin podium, referring to the raised place from which competitors delivered their chansons. Early puys were in honour of the Virgin Mary; contests were held for the best chanson royale or serventois. There were puys in many major French towns, and in London; from the 16th century they were exclusively literary.
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This article is about the geological feature. For the French department, see Puy-de-Dôme. For the medieval poetry guilds, see Puy (society). For the airport with IATA code PUY, see Pula Airport. For other uses, see Le Puy.
Puy (French pronunciation: [pɥi]) is a geological term used locally in the Auvergne, France for a volcanic hill. The word derives from the Provençal puech, meaning an isolated hill, coming from Latin podium, which has given also puig in Catalan and poggio in Italian.
Most of the puys of central France are small cinder cones, with or without associated lava, whilst others are domes of trachytic rock, like the domite 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 Eifel and in the small cones on the Bay of Naples, whilst the relics of puys denuded by erosion are numerous in the Swabian Alps of Württemberg, as pointed out by W. Branco. Sir A. Geikie has shown that the puy type of eruption was common in the British area in Carboniferous and Permian times, as abundantly attested in central Scotland by remains of the old volcanoes, now generally reduced by denudation to the mere neck, or volcanic vent, filled with tuff and agglomerate, or plugged with lava.
See Sir A. Geikie, Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain (1897).
Puy is also another term for ones right bicep (outer). Commonly misspelled backwards as "yup", is a serious problem these days. It is mainly know for its janky features and scar tissue. However it is a highly cherished asset to the bicep, making it even more deadly with the user. It decorates and then spontaneously com-busts. sending the wielder into wild and deadly death throes.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.Template:2007
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