Vulkan Eifel
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The Vulkan Eifel is a region in the Eifel
Mountains in Germany, that is defined to a large extent by its volcanic geological history. Characteristic of the Vulkan Eifel are its typical explosion crater lake
s or maar
s, and numerous other signs of volcanic activity such as volcanic tuff
s, lava
streams and volcanic crater
s like the Laacher See
. The Vulkan Eifel is still volcanically active today. One sign of this activity is the escaping gases, for example, in the Laacher See.
, in the west by the Luxembourg and Belgian Ardennes
and in the north by the North Eifel
including the Hohes Venn. To the east the Rhine forms its geographical boundary; with no volcanicity immediately beyond it.
The Vulkan Eifel is divided into 3 natural regions:
The centre of the Vulkan Eifel is the region around Daun and Manderscheid and the areas within the Mayen-Koblenz district.
The landscape of the Vulkan Eifel is dominated by recent volcanism. Volcanic craters, thick pumice
and basalt
layers and maars create a diverse landscape, that clearly witnesses to very recent events in geological terms.
The entire Vulkan Eifel covers an area of about 2000 km² and has a population of 200,000 (as at 2007).
The Vulkan Eifel is a region in the Eifel
Mountains in Germany, that is defined to a large extent by its volcanic geological history. Characteristic of the Vulkan Eifel are its typical explosion crater lake
s or maar
s, and numerous other signs of volcanic activity such as volcanic tuff
s, lava
streams and volcanic crater
s like the Laacher See
. The Vulkan Eifel is still volcanically active today. One sign of this activity is the escaping gases, for example, in the Laacher See.
, in the west by the Luxembourg and Belgian Ardennes
and in the north by the North Eifel
including the Hohes Venn. To the east the Rhine forms its geographical boundary; with no volcanicity immediately beyond it.
The Vulkan Eifel is divided into 3 natural regions:
The centre of the Vulkan Eifel is the region around Daun and Manderscheid and the areas within the Mayen-Koblenz district.
The landscape of the Vulkan Eifel is dominated by recent volcanism. Volcanic craters, thick pumice
and basalt
layers and maars create a diverse landscape, that clearly witnesses to very recent events in geological terms.
The entire Vulkan Eifel covers an area of about 2000 km² and has a population of 200,000 (as at 2007).
The Vulkan Eifel is a region in the Eifel
Mountains in Germany, that is defined to a large extent by its volcanic geological history. Characteristic of the Vulkan Eifel are its typical explosion crater lake
s or maar
s, and numerous other signs of volcanic activity such as volcanic tuff
s, lava
streams and volcanic crater
s like the Laacher See
. The Vulkan Eifel is still volcanically active today. One sign of this activity is the escaping gases, for example, in the Laacher See.
, in the west by the Luxembourg and Belgian Ardennes
and in the north by the North Eifel
including the Hohes Venn. To the east the Rhine forms its geographical boundary; with no volcanicity immediately beyond it.
The Vulkan Eifel is divided into 3 natural regions:
The centre of the Vulkan Eifel is the region around Daun and Manderscheid and the areas within the Mayen-Koblenz district.
The landscape of the Vulkan Eifel is dominated by recent volcanism. Volcanic craters, thick pumice
and basalt
layers and maars create a diverse landscape, that clearly witnesses to very recent events in geological terms.
The entire Vulkan Eifel covers an area of about 2000 km² and has a population of 200,000 (as at 2007).
Eifel
The Eifel is a low mountain range in western Germany and eastern Belgium. It occupies parts of southwestern North Rhine-Westphalia, northwestern Rhineland-Palatinate and the south of the German-speaking Community of Belgium....
Mountains in Germany, that is defined to a large extent by its volcanic geological history. Characteristic of the Vulkan Eifel are its typical explosion crater lake
Crater lake
A crater lake is a lake that forms in a volcanic crater or caldera, such as a maar; less commonly and with lower association to the term a lake may form in an impact crater caused by a meteorite. Sometimes lakes which form inside calderas are called caldera lakes, but often this distinction is not...
s or maar
Maar
A maar is a broad, low-relief volcanic crater that is caused by a phreatomagmatic eruption, an explosion caused by groundwater coming into contact with hot lava or magma. A maar characteristically fills with water to form a relatively shallow crater lake. The name comes from the local Moselle...
s, and numerous other signs of volcanic activity such as volcanic tuff
Tuff
Tuff is a type of rock consisting of consolidated volcanic ash ejected from vents during a volcanic eruption. Tuff is sometimes called tufa, particularly when used as construction material, although tufa also refers to a quite different rock. Rock that contains greater than 50% tuff is considered...
s, lava
Lava
Lava refers both to molten rock expelled by a volcano during an eruption and the resulting rock after solidification and cooling. This molten rock is formed in the interior of some planets, including Earth, and some of their satellites. When first erupted from a volcanic vent, lava is a liquid at...
streams and volcanic crater
Volcanic crater
A volcanic crater is a circular depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity. It is typically a basin, circular in form within which occurs a vent from which magma erupts as gases, lava, and ejecta. A crater can be of large dimensions, and sometimes of great depth...
s like the Laacher See
Laacher See
' or Laach Lake is a caldera lake and a potentially active volcano, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, situated close to the cities of Koblenz , and Bonn , and closest to the towns Andernach , and Mayen . The caldera lake lies just 8 km from the river Rhine at Andernach...
. The Vulkan Eifel is still volcanically active today. One sign of this activity is the escaping gases, for example, in the Laacher See.
Geographical location
The Vulkan Eifel stretches from the Rhine to the Wittlich Depression. It is bordered in the south and southwest by the South EifelSouth Eifel
The South Eifel refers to that part of the Eifel mountain region around the Bitburg-Prüm district in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate....
, in the west by the Luxembourg and Belgian Ardennes
Ardennes
The Ardennes is a region of extensive forests, rolling hills and ridges formed within the Givetian Ardennes mountain range, primarily in Belgium and Luxembourg, but stretching into France , and geologically into the Eifel...
and in the north by the North Eifel
North Eifel
The North Eifel , the northern part of the Eifel, a low mountain range in Germany and East Belgium, comprises the following six sub-regions:*Venn Foreland,*Hohes Venn,*Rur Eifel,*Limestone Eifel,*Our Valley and*High Eifel....
including the Hohes Venn. To the east the Rhine forms its geographical boundary; with no volcanicity immediately beyond it.
The Vulkan Eifel is divided into 3 natural regions:
- Volcanic West Eifel (ManderscheidManderscheidManderscheid can refer to:*Manderscheid, Bernkastel-Wittlich, a town in the district Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.*Manderscheid, Bitburg-Prüm a village in the district Bitburg-Prüm, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, part of the Verbandsgemeinde Arzfeld.*the Counts of Manderscheid...
, DaunDaun, GermanyDaun is a town in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the district seat and also the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Daun.- Location :...
, GerolsteinGerolsteinGerolstein is a town in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde. Gerolstein is headquarters to a large mineral water firm, Gerolsteiner Brunnen...
, Obere KyllObere KyllObere Kyll is a Verbandsgemeinde in the district Vulkaneifel, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the upper course of the river Kyll, approx. 55 km south-west of Bonn. The seat of the Verbandsgemeinde is in Jünkerath.The Verbandsgemeinde Obere Kyll consists of the following...
, Hillesheim (within the parish of NohnNohnNohn is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...
), - Volcanic High Eifel (AdenauAdenauAdenau is a town in the High Eifel in Germany. It is known as the Johanniterstadt because the Order of Saint John was based there in the Middle Ages. The town's coat of arms combines the black cross of the Electorate of Cologne with the lion of the lords of Nürburg...
, KelbergKelbergKelberg is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the like-named Verbandsgemeinde, and is home to its seat...
, Ulmen and Nohn), - Volcanic East Eifel (BrohltalBrohltalBrohltal is a Verbandsgemeinde in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated approx. 30 km north-west of Koblenz. The seat of the municipality is in Niederzissen....
, VordereifelVordereifelVordereifel is a Verbandsgemeinde in the district of Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the eastern edge of the Eifel, west of Mayen. The seat of the municipality is in Mayen, itself not part of the municipality.The Verbandsgemeinde Vordereifel consists of the...
, MendigMendigMendig is a municipality in the district Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated approx. 6 km north-east of Mayen, and 25 km west of Koblenz.Mendig is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Mendig....
, PellenzPellenzPellenz is a Verbandsgemeinde in the district Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated north-east of Mayen, and south of Andernach...
)
The centre of the Vulkan Eifel is the region around Daun and Manderscheid and the areas within the Mayen-Koblenz district.
The landscape of the Vulkan Eifel is dominated by recent volcanism. Volcanic craters, thick pumice
Pumice
Pumice is a textural term for a volcanic rock that is a solidified frothy lava typically created when super-heated, highly pressurized rock is violently ejected from a volcano. It can be formed when lava and water are mixed. This unusual formation is due to the simultaneous actions of rapid...
and basalt
Basalt
Basalt is a common extrusive volcanic rock. It is usually grey to black and fine-grained due to rapid cooling of lava at the surface of a planet. It may be porphyritic containing larger crystals in a fine matrix, or vesicular, or frothy scoria. Unweathered basalt is black or grey...
layers and maars create a diverse landscape, that clearly witnesses to very recent events in geological terms.
The entire Vulkan Eifel covers an area of about 2000 km² and has a population of 200,000 (as at 2007).
The Vulkan Eifel is a region in the Eifel
Eifel
The Eifel is a low mountain range in western Germany and eastern Belgium. It occupies parts of southwestern North Rhine-Westphalia, northwestern Rhineland-Palatinate and the south of the German-speaking Community of Belgium....
Mountains in Germany, that is defined to a large extent by its volcanic geological history. Characteristic of the Vulkan Eifel are its typical explosion crater lake
Crater lake
A crater lake is a lake that forms in a volcanic crater or caldera, such as a maar; less commonly and with lower association to the term a lake may form in an impact crater caused by a meteorite. Sometimes lakes which form inside calderas are called caldera lakes, but often this distinction is not...
s or maar
Maar
A maar is a broad, low-relief volcanic crater that is caused by a phreatomagmatic eruption, an explosion caused by groundwater coming into contact with hot lava or magma. A maar characteristically fills with water to form a relatively shallow crater lake. The name comes from the local Moselle...
s, and numerous other signs of volcanic activity such as volcanic tuff
Tuff
Tuff is a type of rock consisting of consolidated volcanic ash ejected from vents during a volcanic eruption. Tuff is sometimes called tufa, particularly when used as construction material, although tufa also refers to a quite different rock. Rock that contains greater than 50% tuff is considered...
s, lava
Lava
Lava refers both to molten rock expelled by a volcano during an eruption and the resulting rock after solidification and cooling. This molten rock is formed in the interior of some planets, including Earth, and some of their satellites. When first erupted from a volcanic vent, lava is a liquid at...
streams and volcanic crater
Volcanic crater
A volcanic crater is a circular depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity. It is typically a basin, circular in form within which occurs a vent from which magma erupts as gases, lava, and ejecta. A crater can be of large dimensions, and sometimes of great depth...
s like the Laacher See
Laacher See
' or Laach Lake is a caldera lake and a potentially active volcano, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, situated close to the cities of Koblenz , and Bonn , and closest to the towns Andernach , and Mayen . The caldera lake lies just 8 km from the river Rhine at Andernach...
. The Vulkan Eifel is still volcanically active today. One sign of this activity is the escaping gases, for example, in the Laacher See.
Geographical location
The Vulkan Eifel stretches from the Rhine to the Wittlich Depression. It is bordered in the south and southwest by the South EifelSouth Eifel
The South Eifel refers to that part of the Eifel mountain region around the Bitburg-Prüm district in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate....
, in the west by the Luxembourg and Belgian Ardennes
Ardennes
The Ardennes is a region of extensive forests, rolling hills and ridges formed within the Givetian Ardennes mountain range, primarily in Belgium and Luxembourg, but stretching into France , and geologically into the Eifel...
and in the north by the North Eifel
North Eifel
The North Eifel , the northern part of the Eifel, a low mountain range in Germany and East Belgium, comprises the following six sub-regions:*Venn Foreland,*Hohes Venn,*Rur Eifel,*Limestone Eifel,*Our Valley and*High Eifel....
including the Hohes Venn. To the east the Rhine forms its geographical boundary; with no volcanicity immediately beyond it.
The Vulkan Eifel is divided into 3 natural regions:
- Volcanic West Eifel (ManderscheidManderscheidManderscheid can refer to:*Manderscheid, Bernkastel-Wittlich, a town in the district Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.*Manderscheid, Bitburg-Prüm a village in the district Bitburg-Prüm, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, part of the Verbandsgemeinde Arzfeld.*the Counts of Manderscheid...
, DaunDaun, GermanyDaun is a town in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the district seat and also the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Daun.- Location :...
, GerolsteinGerolsteinGerolstein is a town in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde. Gerolstein is headquarters to a large mineral water firm, Gerolsteiner Brunnen...
, Obere KyllObere KyllObere Kyll is a Verbandsgemeinde in the district Vulkaneifel, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the upper course of the river Kyll, approx. 55 km south-west of Bonn. The seat of the Verbandsgemeinde is in Jünkerath.The Verbandsgemeinde Obere Kyll consists of the following...
, Hillesheim (within the parish of NohnNohnNohn is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...
), - Volcanic High Eifel (AdenauAdenauAdenau is a town in the High Eifel in Germany. It is known as the Johanniterstadt because the Order of Saint John was based there in the Middle Ages. The town's coat of arms combines the black cross of the Electorate of Cologne with the lion of the lords of Nürburg...
, KelbergKelbergKelberg is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the like-named Verbandsgemeinde, and is home to its seat...
, Ulmen and Nohn), - Volcanic East Eifel (BrohltalBrohltalBrohltal is a Verbandsgemeinde in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated approx. 30 km north-west of Koblenz. The seat of the municipality is in Niederzissen....
, VordereifelVordereifelVordereifel is a Verbandsgemeinde in the district of Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the eastern edge of the Eifel, west of Mayen. The seat of the municipality is in Mayen, itself not part of the municipality.The Verbandsgemeinde Vordereifel consists of the...
, MendigMendigMendig is a municipality in the district Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated approx. 6 km north-east of Mayen, and 25 km west of Koblenz.Mendig is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Mendig....
, PellenzPellenzPellenz is a Verbandsgemeinde in the district Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated north-east of Mayen, and south of Andernach...
)
The centre of the Vulkan Eifel is the region around Daun and Manderscheid and the areas within the Mayen-Koblenz district.
The landscape of the Vulkan Eifel is dominated by recent volcanism. Volcanic craters, thick pumice
Pumice
Pumice is a textural term for a volcanic rock that is a solidified frothy lava typically created when super-heated, highly pressurized rock is violently ejected from a volcano. It can be formed when lava and water are mixed. This unusual formation is due to the simultaneous actions of rapid...
and basalt
Basalt
Basalt is a common extrusive volcanic rock. It is usually grey to black and fine-grained due to rapid cooling of lava at the surface of a planet. It may be porphyritic containing larger crystals in a fine matrix, or vesicular, or frothy scoria. Unweathered basalt is black or grey...
layers and maars create a diverse landscape, that clearly witnesses to very recent events in geological terms.
The entire Vulkan Eifel covers an area of about 2000 km² and has a population of 200,000 (as at 2007).
The Vulkan Eifel is a region in the Eifel
Eifel
The Eifel is a low mountain range in western Germany and eastern Belgium. It occupies parts of southwestern North Rhine-Westphalia, northwestern Rhineland-Palatinate and the south of the German-speaking Community of Belgium....
Mountains in Germany, that is defined to a large extent by its volcanic geological history. Characteristic of the Vulkan Eifel are its typical explosion crater lake
Crater lake
A crater lake is a lake that forms in a volcanic crater or caldera, such as a maar; less commonly and with lower association to the term a lake may form in an impact crater caused by a meteorite. Sometimes lakes which form inside calderas are called caldera lakes, but often this distinction is not...
s or maar
Maar
A maar is a broad, low-relief volcanic crater that is caused by a phreatomagmatic eruption, an explosion caused by groundwater coming into contact with hot lava or magma. A maar characteristically fills with water to form a relatively shallow crater lake. The name comes from the local Moselle...
s, and numerous other signs of volcanic activity such as volcanic tuff
Tuff
Tuff is a type of rock consisting of consolidated volcanic ash ejected from vents during a volcanic eruption. Tuff is sometimes called tufa, particularly when used as construction material, although tufa also refers to a quite different rock. Rock that contains greater than 50% tuff is considered...
s, lava
Lava
Lava refers both to molten rock expelled by a volcano during an eruption and the resulting rock after solidification and cooling. This molten rock is formed in the interior of some planets, including Earth, and some of their satellites. When first erupted from a volcanic vent, lava is a liquid at...
streams and volcanic crater
Volcanic crater
A volcanic crater is a circular depression in the ground caused by volcanic activity. It is typically a basin, circular in form within which occurs a vent from which magma erupts as gases, lava, and ejecta. A crater can be of large dimensions, and sometimes of great depth...
s like the Laacher See
Laacher See
' or Laach Lake is a caldera lake and a potentially active volcano, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, situated close to the cities of Koblenz , and Bonn , and closest to the towns Andernach , and Mayen . The caldera lake lies just 8 km from the river Rhine at Andernach...
. The Vulkan Eifel is still volcanically active today. One sign of this activity is the escaping gases, for example, in the Laacher See.
Geographical location
The Vulkan Eifel stretches from the Rhine to the Wittlich Depression. It is bordered in the south and southwest by the South EifelSouth Eifel
The South Eifel refers to that part of the Eifel mountain region around the Bitburg-Prüm district in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate....
, in the west by the Luxembourg and Belgian Ardennes
Ardennes
The Ardennes is a region of extensive forests, rolling hills and ridges formed within the Givetian Ardennes mountain range, primarily in Belgium and Luxembourg, but stretching into France , and geologically into the Eifel...
and in the north by the North Eifel
North Eifel
The North Eifel , the northern part of the Eifel, a low mountain range in Germany and East Belgium, comprises the following six sub-regions:*Venn Foreland,*Hohes Venn,*Rur Eifel,*Limestone Eifel,*Our Valley and*High Eifel....
including the Hohes Venn. To the east the Rhine forms its geographical boundary; with no volcanicity immediately beyond it.
The Vulkan Eifel is divided into 3 natural regions:
- Volcanic West Eifel (ManderscheidManderscheidManderscheid can refer to:*Manderscheid, Bernkastel-Wittlich, a town in the district Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.*Manderscheid, Bitburg-Prüm a village in the district Bitburg-Prüm, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, part of the Verbandsgemeinde Arzfeld.*the Counts of Manderscheid...
, DaunDaun, GermanyDaun is a town in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the district seat and also the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Daun.- Location :...
, GerolsteinGerolsteinGerolstein is a town in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde. Gerolstein is headquarters to a large mineral water firm, Gerolsteiner Brunnen...
, Obere KyllObere KyllObere Kyll is a Verbandsgemeinde in the district Vulkaneifel, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the upper course of the river Kyll, approx. 55 km south-west of Bonn. The seat of the Verbandsgemeinde is in Jünkerath.The Verbandsgemeinde Obere Kyll consists of the following...
, Hillesheim (within the parish of NohnNohnNohn is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...
), - Volcanic High Eifel (AdenauAdenauAdenau is a town in the High Eifel in Germany. It is known as the Johanniterstadt because the Order of Saint John was based there in the Middle Ages. The town's coat of arms combines the black cross of the Electorate of Cologne with the lion of the lords of Nürburg...
, KelbergKelbergKelberg is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the like-named Verbandsgemeinde, and is home to its seat...
, Ulmen and Nohn), - Volcanic East Eifel (BrohltalBrohltalBrohltal is a Verbandsgemeinde in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated approx. 30 km north-west of Koblenz. The seat of the municipality is in Niederzissen....
, VordereifelVordereifelVordereifel is a Verbandsgemeinde in the district of Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the eastern edge of the Eifel, west of Mayen. The seat of the municipality is in Mayen, itself not part of the municipality.The Verbandsgemeinde Vordereifel consists of the...
, MendigMendigMendig is a municipality in the district Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated approx. 6 km north-east of Mayen, and 25 km west of Koblenz.Mendig is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Mendig....
, PellenzPellenzPellenz is a Verbandsgemeinde in the district Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated north-east of Mayen, and south of Andernach...
)
The centre of the Vulkan Eifel is the region around Daun and Manderscheid and the areas within the Mayen-Koblenz district.
The landscape of the Vulkan Eifel is dominated by recent volcanism. Volcanic craters, thick pumice
Pumice
Pumice is a textural term for a volcanic rock that is a solidified frothy lava typically created when super-heated, highly pressurized rock is violently ejected from a volcano. It can be formed when lava and water are mixed. This unusual formation is due to the simultaneous actions of rapid...
and basalt
Basalt
Basalt is a common extrusive volcanic rock. It is usually grey to black and fine-grained due to rapid cooling of lava at the surface of a planet. It may be porphyritic containing larger crystals in a fine matrix, or vesicular, or frothy scoria. Unweathered basalt is black or grey...
layers and maars create a diverse landscape, that clearly witnesses to very recent events in geological terms.
The entire Vulkan Eifel covers an area of about 2000 km² and has a population of 200,000 (as at 2007).