English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
Download this dictionary
Laacher See
or
Laach Lake
(in English) is a
volcanic
caldera lake
with a diameter of in
Rhineland-Palatinate
,
Germany
, about northwest of
Koblenz
and south of
Bonn
, and is closest to the town of
Andernach
situated to the east on the river
Rhine
. It is in the
Eifel
mountain range, and is part of the
East Eifel volcanic field
within the larger
Vulkaneifel
. The lake was formed by a
Plinian eruption
approximately 12,900 years ago with a
Volcanic Explosivity Index
(VEI) of 6, on the same scale as the Pinatubo eruption of 1991.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License