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The Volcanoes of the Eifel region, Germany

The Eifel Volcanoes and Region Eifel Volcanoes (University of Koblenz) Volcanism of the Eifel (Emporia State University) Eifel volcanoes from a balloon (click on Galerie) Investigation of the Seismic Structure below the Lower Rhine Graben and the Eifel Volcanic Fields Eifel Plume Project Ahr wine region Eifel Volcano Museum (Daun) West Eifel around Manderscheid (in German)

General

• An on-line 'book ' on volcanoes from the US Geological Survey

The following pages on R V Fisher's Volcano Information Center at Santa Barbara are particularly relevant.

• Hydrovolcanic processes. Read about maar volcanoes
• Pyroclastic fallout
• Pyroclastic flows
• Deposits of pyroclastic sediment gravity flows

These images and pages provide information on some of the types of volcanoes in the Eifel:

• Volcano forms. See the section on cinder (scoria) cones
• Maars and tuff cones
• Fort Rock Basin Maar Field, Oregon Includes definitions of maar, tuff ring and other terms.
• The maar volcano at Mega, Ethiopia
• Coliseum maar, Hopi Buttes, Arizona
• Morale Claim Maar, Hopi Buttes, Arizona

Last updated 22 January, 2009 at 22:17