The Largest Volcano in Europe; Found in France

[@soly-dp-colo6388]

French here. Cantal is a gorgeous volcano, with lots of trekking and old, pretty settlements around. It's quite a remote place, and really worth a visit if you come to France. Thank you for covering it, Timothy.

[@Liminal_Simulacre]

And an amazing cheese region of course :p

[@cheriestl]

I’ve been!! Also to Puy Dôme.

[@kennyjones559]

​@@Liminal_Simulacre The soil must be very good. From California, and we have still-active volcanoes & extinct volcanoes that give us our good soil, too. I'm in Arizona now, Phoenix, BUT this area spent most of its geologic past beneath various OCEANS. Then, "Arizona" rose from the sea approximately 374 million years ago, so we had dinosaurs 🦕 too. Rifting formed volcanoes, but they're mostly extinct. The San Francisco Volcanic Field in northern AZ is currently "dormant."

[@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx]

Thanks as always, Geology Hub! This is a huge volcano!

[@xwiick]

Thanks for all the hard work on these videos!

[@JackFroster]

'it will never erupt again' why did this make me feel sad for a volcano

[@emoishguy08]

I get sad over extinct volcanoes too. Also sad when there are railroad lines that don’t get used anymore.

[@davidcranstone9044]

​@@emoishguy08 Railway lines yes, and abandoned industrial sites (in fact I devoted a lot of my career to studying them). But extinct volcanoes no - to me they are just extremely interesting geology - and of course very important for understanding current volcanoes.

[@MossyMozart]

Had a long, productive career. Now retired. Don't be sad.

[@swainscheps]

I’m with @emoishguy08 in temperament but I know @MossyMozart has the right attitude. Think Marie Kondo: accept that things just aren’t meant to be permanent. We must enjoy what we have with the time we have; after all…think of all the things right in front of our noses today that will pass by the wayside that our children will lament missing out on…but that we regularly walk by and barely notice. (Having said that, I’m now going to sit down to watch a documentary on cabooses, pay phones, and seesaws…)

[@1of4Thatsthescore]

Never say never lol

[@erinmac4750]

Fascinating part of France. I hope to someday visit the region to check out the geology and otherwise maybe participate in some archaeology digs. Thank you for covering the Massif Central. 💚🌍🇫🇷

[@ragnapodewski4694]

The "Vogelsberg" covers a wide areal too, it is deeply eroded for it is older than Cantal volcano, beginning with basaltic magma, later becoming silica richer.

[@wuseling]

Vogelsberg aktive 20-7 mio . See: "Wasserkuppe" ~30 mio, Burg Stolpen ~25 mio, Hegau volcanoes 15 mio. It is easy to see that these are located near fault zones

[@lukasrentz3238]

Not looking like a classic volcano but you´r Neighbour, RLP, has two volcanic fields which are considered active ;) they also span a rather large area. Both Fields, Westeifel and Osteifel are given as 2000km².

[@Gabanret]

Hello @GeologyHub, thank you for making a video about a French volcano! Have you heard about the Estérel volcanic complexe in the South of France ? It would be a great topic to present on video 😇 Can you please do a video of it one day ?

[@eliscanfield3913]

Its always cool to learn about extinct volcanos in places we don't think of as ever volcanic. My university, Southern Connecticut State, is really near west rock, which is apparently formed by a volcano millions of years ago

[@BardWraith]

So interesting! I'm so glad i found this channel.

[@davidcranstone9044]

Welcome if you are new here, and pleased to have you on board. 😃

[@LuisAldamiz]

"Geologically recent" means when Homo erectus was discovering fire in Tanzania (at the latest). Thank you for explaining that geological oddity that is the Massif Central, I never before understood well why it was there at all. Now I do.

[@k.6686]

I'm from France and I noticed that area on google maps and wondered if it was a volcano. Now I know, thank you!

[@dianespears6057]

This was a great video. Thank you.

[@squidnoid8]

Great video. Very informative. You “ rock “. Pun intended.

[@voltavyn5176]

best youtube channel

[@tour2babel]

Thank you from France 👍

[@arnabhbanerjee7400]

Really amazing you covered this Volcano I had flown over it last year and from 35000 ft it stood out in the landscape.

[@SevereWeatherCenter]

Very cool video! Love it!

[@airjerden]

Is it possible that you could cover the UK in a similar fashion? There are some interesting geological formations in the form of extinct volcanoes throughout Wales, Ireland, England and Scotland.

[@eliscanfield3913]

Im interested in whatever caused so much granite in New England. (I think it's all from the same range).

[@davidcranstone9044]

I very much agree, though in fairness to other under represented countries (especially those with active volcanoes) I would not ask for more than 2-3. I am thinking mainly of the chain of Tertiary volcanoes down the west coast of Scotland, continued in Northern Ireland by the Antrim basalt, the Mourne Mountains and Slieve Gullion, where it is possible to examine features in the field (such as magma chambers, ring dykes etc) which are completely inaccessible to direct physical examination in a current or recently extinct volcano which has not been dissected by erosion. And it might be worth including one or two others such as the Cheviot - a Devonian volcano on the English/Scottish border, still upright and virtually unfolded, with its centre formed by the granite of a magma chamber within the lower part of the volcano, as shown by the lavas that surround it. Apologies for any mistakes in the above. I would much prefer to check my facts as I write, but when I briefly switched to Google to check something, KZbin closed the video on me and went to the next one, and when I reopened this one I had lost my whole text and had to rewrite it. I could not face doing that again!

[@RSimpkinuk57]

He covered Glen Coe in Scotland a couple of years ago.

[@Off-roading1]

Ben Nevis would be cool

[@Cerbera66]

Thank you for your content 😊👍🍀🌋

[@philipbahia2707]

I never knew there was a Volcano in Europe France.

[@georgemartinez-vi5yi]

Thanks for this informative video. Any chance of making a video of the European Holocene volcanoes which geologically are perhaps only sleeping.

[@haileyescobar-f3z]

Thank you for always giving us informational content! I was also wondering if you were going to do a video over Colombias Puraće volcano which has been showing signs of activity recently?

[@tHebUm18]

4:12 You definitely just drew a tardigrade here.

[@michaelwells6075]

Thank you! That was a very thorough and interesting report about a significant geological feature I'd not heard of. I'd be very interested to hear your description of significant geo-historical events and periods. The Younger Dryas is one that seems to have been a series of rather dramatic events in a relatively short geological time frame. We also know Antartica was at one time climatically very different. I assume because at that time it was not at the south pole. But, then, where was it? And was the south pole frozen over then as it is today?

[@friedrichschiller3012]

Quite a few years ago I went from Clermont-Ferrand to Murat (just east of the former Cantal summit) by bike. Beautiful landscape. Not to forget the delicious Cantal cheese.

[@ubermachtthemechanic007]

@geologyhub what criteria is used to determine if a volcano will ever erupt again?

[@7hunderstorm242]

I live on this volcano and I love it

[@GromKuba]

In the map I can see rifting and volcanoism zone in Bohemian Massif between Czechia and Germany. Is this zone related to volanism zone in north of Sudetes (Kaczawskie Mountains) in Poland?

[@lukasrentz3238]

Depends on the Age of the volcanism i guess. The rifting is comparably young. The Kaczawskie Mountains seem to be up to 500 Million Years old?

[@iowafarmboy]

Is that rifting still somewhat active? Or is all the rifting extinct as well?

[@nortyfiner]

The Chaines des Puys system is still considered potentially active. There are also still active volcanoes in Germany. But as for the deeper overall rifting, it's difficult to say since none of the volcanoes in question have erupted in so long.

[@lukasrentz3238]

@@nortyfiner The Rifts in Germany remain active, but rather as strike slip faults than actual rifts. The slip rate for the Upper Rhine Graben is estimated to be 0.1mm per year.

[@rolandsquire6555]

IIRC the massif central volcanic system is inactive currently but has gone through longer periods of inactivity in the past before erupting again.

[@alexmunroe5063]

Campi Flegri is the largest active one in Europe though?

[@tibomoltini2851]

you can ski there. it still has some heat, they have hot springs

[@tracychesnutt3660]

Has Mount Lamington be addressed in a video? A terrible eruption. Thanks.

[@IljaMuromec114]

You should make a video about the stratovolcano that used to be in central slovakia and was 4.6km tall

[@warpdriveby]

Is this rifting a result of the African plate's subduction? I wondered if the weight of the alps piling up close by was putting enough strain on the crust to cause faulting as rock stretches and sags under such a mass? I've been looking for a detailed explanation or just a hypothesis on the location/origin of Volcanoes on the continent outside Italy/Greece/Turkyie but I haven't found much, any idea where to look?

[@lukasrentz3238]

At least the Eifel Volcanic Field should be related to an Hotspot. The Rifting is a result from the advancing african plate.

[@tenalafel]

Yes... and no... The rifting is caused by the Apulian plate ( basically most of Italy, which is a pieces of the African plate that got separated ). It extend over all the outer arc of the Alpine surrection, you can see it through the various grabbens ( the various Limagnes, The Loire valley around Roanne, the Bresse bassin, the Rhine valley at the French/German border, you'll find some all the way to Slovakia. )

[@warpdriveby]

@tenalafel I think I was trying to ask if it is the weight of the Rock piling up in an area that then causes the faulting via tension, the lateral force of the plate stretching perpendicular to the motion Africa and the minor plates northland, or a combination. Maybe none of that? Im struggling to find a good diagram/model showing rifting features with the forces or motions causing them.

[@jimmyarmstrongtrainz7812]

And Cantal is the name of the best french cheese too 😁

[@sorcie1616]

Can you do a quick one on Nabiyotum Crater?

[@memofromessex]

I think the largest volcano on the British Isles is Cheviot. It's a shield volcano that was last active hundreds of millions years ago.

[@davidcranstone9044]

I am not sure if it is the largest - if anything I would guess the Mull volcano is larger. The Cheviot (actually its full correct name) dates from the Devonian period, but is still upright with the granite of a former magma chamber within the volcanic pile at its centre surrounded by lavas which are exposed down to their contact with the underlying country rock on most sides.

[@memofromessex]

@@davidcranstone9044 Half my family are from Northumberland and they refer it as Cheviot. Don't akkkkchtually me over a minor name difference. I think over the broad area Cheviot is larger.

[@davidcranstone9044]

​@@memofromessexI won't argue with you on either, since I don't have any figures for the (exposed surface) areas to hand. And although I've lived on Tyneside for over 35 years I am certainly not a Northumbrian. But nationally it one of the very few mountains known as The ****. In fact the only others I can think of are The Wrekin in Shropshire and The Breidden (pronounced Brythen since it is a Welsh name), though that is called Breidden Hill on the OS maps.

[@Artus6114]

Erupt. possible or?

[@zjefvanhoof1900]

One question. i was searching back for some older videos about vulsini and colli albani. but i cant find them anymore idk why?

[@foowashere]

Probably using copyrighted material, or with unclear copyright.

[@xwiick]

Expired licensing/withdrawn permit to use Video/photos is the most likely reason. You may notice blurred out segments in some older video's sadly some of the video's became pretty much audio only

[@zjefvanhoof1900]

@@xwiick ooh thank you

[@kevinanderson5658]

The Cheviot is an extinct volcano in the UK that may have once been as tall as 10,000 ft (3,000 m). It's located in the Cheviot Hills, which are the remains of a prehistoric volcanic center. Last eruption 393mya At 2,674 feet (815 metres) above sea-level, The Cheviot is the highest point in the Cheviot Hills, the county top of Northumberland, England's highest point outside of Cumbria and fourth-highest outside the Lake District, after Cross Fell, Great Dun Fell and Little Dun Fell. It is located in the Northumberland National Park and is 41 miles (66 kilometres) from the city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It can be viewed in the distance from the peak of Cow Hill on the Town Moor, the city's largest park.

[@roberttorrance731]

Never say never 😇

[@Dragrath1]

Interesting so by the looks of it extension has shifted elsewhere to the north? The episodic characteristic of extensional volcanic fields seems to be quite prevalent globally though I wonder what drives this local extension it sounds like this is still controversial? Do we see GPS movements of the land indicative of any modern extension even if minor in modern days perhaps in or around the Eifel region or that more northward volcanic center in France?

[@davidcranstone9044]

It is not often that you don't know anything about a volcano, though I have to say that I have found it hard to find information in English. As I understand it, the Auverne volcanoes and the Eifel volcanoes much further north are related to failed rifting 'now followed by the Rhone and middle Rhine valleys. But that is from reading more than 20 years ago, and may well have been overthrown by more recent work. I can certainly vouch for Cantal being cold and wet - I was seriously cold walking along one of the radial ridges in showers of driving rain in June!

[@chesterfieldthe3rd929]

I wonder if there was ever volcanoes in Northeast Illinois 🤔

[@azopalinc]

Have you had the chance to visit Montserrat? I have some great pictures taken from a helicopter during the 90’s eruptions

[@mediaalchemist]

Excellent video as always! Can you do a video on the 80 square kilometer geologic oddity of fossilized fumaroles from the Coli Caldera volcano that borders Guadalajara, Mexico? This site has been documented by Geologist John Pint who has lived near the site for 30+ years. Here is a quick video of what I mean: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWa6iYCbiq-andU

[@mediaalchemist]

And more video here of the fossilized fumaroles: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnzJgXaIjt1njdk

[@MrDan708]

Might be a good place for some French vintner with a sense of adventure to plant a new vineyard.

[@bofpwet9500]

Hi, sorry but, how and why can you cay it will never errupt again?

[@sjeason]

It has been 2 million years since it last erupted and there is no signs of any geological activity in the area. Whatever magma was present here has likely long since solidified and therefore will never erupt again. While technically not impossible for there to be volcanic activity in this area again, it would require a dramatic change in the geologic setting, which is extremely unlikely to happen anytime soon, so therefore it is extinct.

[@BackYardScience2000]

It's been more than 2 million years since it erupted last. Generally anything more than a few dozens of thousands of years to hundreds of thousands of years without an eruption can be considered to be extinct.

[@davidcranstone9044]

​@@BackYardScience2000Could I add though that the eastern side of the Auverne volcanic area, the 'puys' around Clermont Ferrand, are considered to be potentially active, with eruptions within the last 6000 years if I remember correctly. If anyone has more up to date and reliable information, please contribute it.

[@kaoskronostyche9939]

This is not a comment.

[@laura-bianca3130]

😂

[@GAMakin]

Interesting ... May have been underwater...?

[@tricky1581]

I don't think that part of France has been underwater since the break up of supercontinent Gwandana, if ever. And certainly not during its eruptive phase 12.5 to 2 MYA.

[@CARODSLINK]

Mexican Hat is on top of the Colorado plateau

[@CARODSLINK]

I ask again. What is Mexican Hat ? Approximately. It’s looks to be an impression nearly a third of the whole US . Impact? Volcanic? It’s something And I’m not smart enough to know. Ty Sir. Good day.

[@Liminal_Simulacre]

How does the Cantal compare to Mount Elbrouz, which is the tallest volcano in Europe ? I couldn't find a clear answer on its surface area.

[@aaronlemaster7139]

Maybe I am beating a very old dead horse... but Fance is not Europa... I get that Rome wanted to claim everything Europa because of their power... but it actually is not Europa.

[@lauram9478]

❤❤

[@Schody_lol]

Damn, that fascinating! Also: first! lol

[@LionelM-i2f]

🌼♥️👍

[@goodwaterhikes]

👍👍

[@BrickfallOfficial]

I fart at Swans!

[@EatsLikeADuck]

Is this a feature or a bug?

[@LauraMoore-j8s]

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[@RobertHenson72653]

Your brain power just amazes me !!

[@trimbalemrbale575]

now talk about the other volcano nearby

[@BackYardScience2000]

Which one?

[@thequestioner5916]

He has

[@trimbalemrbale575]

@@BackYardScience2000 few dozen Km to the NE. le mont-dore

[@tenalafel]

@@trimbalemrbale575 There's also the Devès flood basalt area... the Coiron, and then Agde... The whole issue with that area is that theres more volcano than everybody think... From around Gannat to the north and you go south to Agde... that's more than 300km with volcanoes here and there either as strato volcanoes ( Sancy, Cantal ), monogenic volcanoes ( Chaine des Puys ), Maars ( Maar de Jaude, Lac Pavin, Gours de Tazenat, or classic basalt flood ( Devès, Coiron ). the youngest one ( Lac Pavin ) is supposed to be between 7K and 12K years old only.

[@davidcranstone9044]

​@@tenalafelAnd Mont Dore, another big shield volcano to the north of Cantal and presumably much more recent since it is broadly uneroded.

[@williamlloyd3769]

Does this volcanic area have a Wine terroir? PS - Any unique qualities of a wine determined by the natural factors of its growing region.

[@oliviermalige3279]

Nope, rainy and colder weather don't allow grape there. However some great meat and a famous cheese from the beautyful cows fed on the vast pastures.

[@tenalafel]

Auvergne used to be one of the most massive wine producing region in France before the Philoxera. ( though not around the Cantal, the whole area is too high and too rugged for that, it's really a meat and cheese production area ) Nowadays only a few specific areas have managed to keep producing wine : Chateaugay, Boudes, St Pourçain sur Sioule, and there's many farmers that starts on wine around Clermont Ferrand to restart the production of the Cotes d'Auvergne.

[@TB.D]

IGP puy de dôme and AOC côte d'Auvergne

[@PanagiotisFintanakis]

😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@snarky_user]

Bulbous, bouffant.

[@mary-s2p5y]

Is that an area that grows those wonderful grapes to make wine/

[@Ben_3_2_1]

Noice!

[@sarahsmith6878]

Thank you.France near England. Not England France

[@PoorMansChemist]

I love this channel. It's subject matter is excellent. But that narrators speech pattern is like fingernails on a chalkboard. 😬

[@RichardGeiszler]

So the French volcano ran up the white flag and went extinct.