Multi-proxy dating of Holocene maar lakes and Pleistocene dry maar sediments in the Eifel, Germany

Sirocko, Frank; Dietrich, Stephan; Vereș, Daniel; Grootes, P. M.; Schaber-Mohr, Katja; Seelos, Klemens; Nadeau, Marie‐Josée; Kromer, Bernd; Rothacker, Leo; Röhner, Marieke; Krbetschek, Matthias; Appleby, P. G.; Hambach, Ulrich; Rolf, Christian; Sudo, Masafumi; Grim, Stephanie

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.09.011

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“…Central Europe was permanently dusty (Sirocko et al, 2005(Sirocko et al, , 2013Seelos et al, 2009 controlled not only by atmospheric dust abundance but also by different local trapping, geomorphic and preservation conditions. This is a significant limiting factor for continuous loess deposition, as well as for suitable reconstruction of climatic and environmental dynamics.…”

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Danube loess stratigraphy — Towards a pan-European loess stratigraphic model

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Danube loess stratigraphy — Towards a pan-European loess stratigraphic model

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“…The Eifel volcanism started in the Hocheifel during the Eocene about 50 Ma ago, while the volcanic activity in the West Eifel started at~700-600 ka and in the East Eifel at~460 ka (Schmincke, 2007). The most recent activity occurred at Ulmener Maar (West Eifel) 11,000 a BP (Zolitschka et al, 1995;Sirocko et al, 2013). The WEVF (~600 km 2 ) is limited by the Booser maars to the northeast, the towns of Bad Bertrich to the south, and Ormont to the northwest.…”

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“…The Ulmener Maar is the result of the youngest eruption in Germany (11,000 a BP) according to calibrated 14 C dating (Sirocko et al, 2013) and corrected varve chronology (Zolitschka et al, 1995). The up to 7.5 m thick deposit was logged on the western rim of the UM crater, in a road cut along the Cochemer Strasse north of the church of Ulmen, 80 m south of highway A48 (Appendix A).…”

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Eifel maars: Quantitative shape characterization of juvenile ash particles (Eifel Volcanic Field, Germany)

Rausch

Grobéty

Vonlanthen

2015

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

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The Eifel region in western central Germany is the type locality for maar volcanism, which is classically interpreted to be the result of explosive eruptions due to shallow interaction between magma and external water (i.e. phreatomagmatic eruptions). Sedimentary structures, deposit features and particle morphology found in many maar deposits of the West Eifel Volcanic Field (WEVF), in contrast to deposits in the East Eifel Volcanic Field (EEVF), lack the diagnostic criteria of typical phreatomagmatic deposits. The aim of this study was to determine quantitatively the shape of WEVF and EEVF maar ash particles in order to infer the governing eruption style in Eifel maar volcanoes. The quantitative shape characterization was done by analyzing fractal dimensions of particle contours (125-250 μm sieve fraction) obtained from Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and SEM micro-computed tomography (SEM micro-CT) images. The fractal analysis (dilation method) and the fractal spectrum technique confirmed that the WEVF and EEVF maar particles have contrasting multifractal shapes. Whereas the low small-scale dimensions of EEVF particles (Eppelsberg Green Unit) coincide with previously published values for phreatomagmatic particles, the WEVF particles (Meerfelder Maar, Pulvermaar and Ulmener Maar) have larger values indicating more complex smallscale features, which are characteristic for magmatic particles. These quantitative results are strengthening the qualitative microscopic observations, that the studied WEVF maar eruptions are rather dominated by magmatic processes. The different eruption styles in the two volcanic fields can be explained by the different geological and hydrological settings found in both regions and the different chemical compositions of the magmas.

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“…Lake Holzmaar was considered suitable, because a number of (palaeo-) limnology studies have been conducted (Raubitschek et al, 1999;Zolitschka et al, 2000;Baier et al, 2004;Sirocko, 2009;Messyasz et al, 2012) and the sedimentary organic matter characterized . Furthermore, a high precision multi-proxy dating for the actual sediment core used in this study has been published (Sirocko et al, 2013). The sediments cover the entire Holocene and date further back to Bølling-Allerød interstadial (13,650 years BP).…”

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