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The Fairy Chimney

The Fairy Chimney

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The Fairy Chimney

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Location: Saint-Diéry, Issoire, Auvergne Rhône Alpes, France

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October 5, 2022

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Like all fairy chimneys, this column owes its existence to a block of rock that protected the softer sedimentary rocks on which it was placed from erosion. Here the rock that caps the column is a mass of lava projected onto clay soil during a volcanic eruption.

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