Geysir Andernach
13 June 2010, 9:04 pm
The Eifel is an active volcanic area, with magma chambers approximately four kilometers below the surface. Facilitated by the enormous pressure of these depths the carbon-dioxide dissolves in ground water and raises through the earth. Here in Andernach, in a depth of 350 meters, the saturated water is collected in a well. While the well [...]
Holzmaden
8 June 2010, 8:30 pm
180 million years ago this was an warm, shallow ocean, the Jurassic sea, where ichthyosaurs and sea lilies, ammonites and belemnites lived. The former supercontinent Laurasia had already broken up, and most of today’s Europe had been flooded. Dead animals and plants sank to the bottom of the sea, forming a putrid mud of decomposing [...]