Volcanic Bomb

3D Model

Basalt Bomb

• Volcano Name: Chaîne des Puys
• Volcano Number: 210020
• Erupted: 7,650 years ago
• Country: France
• Precise Locality: Puy De La Vache, S Foot Of
• Latitude: 45.71, Longitude: 2.96
• Notes: Matched to the GeoNames record for Puy de la Vache, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (http://geonames.org/2971232) based on locality name and country using the situate.py script. Other place names mentioned in the EMu record (Chaine des Puys and Foot Of) could not be matched and were ignored when determining the coordinates given here. Point coordinates were rounded to 2 decimal places from the values given by GeoNames. A minimum uncertainty of 10 km was assigned to all featureCode=MT records matched using the script.

Sample from the Smithsonian Institution’s collection. On display at the Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C. Bequest of M. Krafft (#116691.0001)

More Information: https://app.geosamples.org/sample/igsn/NHB006OFH