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Data from the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution
Details for: West Eifel Volcanic Field
The lake-filled Weinfelder maar is one of about 80 maars of the West Eifel Volcanic Field in Germany, west of the Rhine River. The roughly 500-m-wide crater was formed during the late Pleistocene by explosions through non-volcanic bedrock. About 230 eruptions during the past 730,000 years formed a 600 km2 area that includes maars, scoria cones, and small stratovolcanoes. Photo by Richard Waitt, 1990 (U.S. Geological Survey).
Volcano Number:
210010
Volcano Name:
West Eifel Volcanic Field
Country:
Germany
Volcano Type:
Volcanic field
Last Eruption:
8300 BCE
Elevation:
600m
Tectonic Setting:
Rift zone \/ Continental crust (> 25 km)
Pop. within 5km:
94991
Pop. within 10km:
94991
Pop. within 30km:
232256
Pop. within 100km:
7945412
Latitude:
50.17
Longitude:
6.85
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The West Eifel Volcanic Field of western Germany, SW of the city of Bonn, is a dominantly Pleistocene group of 240 scoria cones, maars, and small stratovolcanoes covering an area of about 600 km2. The smaller, but better known, East Eifel Volcanic Field is about 40 km NE. Individual vents spread across a broad NW-SE-trending area extending about 50 km from the towns of Ormont on the NW to Bad Bertrich on the SE. Eruptions originated from a mantle plume through Devonian sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. Two-thirds of the volcanic centers in the field are scoria cones; lava flows have been produced from about half of them. About 30% of the centers are maars or tuff rings, many of which are occupied by lakes. About 230 eruptions have occurred during the past 730,000 years. The latest eruptions formed the Ulmener, Pulvermaar, and Strohn maars around the end of the Pleistocene and the beginning of the Holocene.
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