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the volcanic i sold a landscape forged and fire shaped fine for some elemental forces, deep underground, huge glowing chunks of rock. ash that covered everything in minutes and foamed a one of a kind landscape. the volcanoes fell silent some 10000 years ago, but they're only sleeping, the ease, something brewing deep below the surface of the eiffel. how great is the danger that the volcanoes will roll back to life the, the, the in the
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east, if the volcanic eiffel near under. now, the forces looking benita, you showed themselves, the cold water goes up the highest in the world. the every 2 hours the water jet erupt reaching up to 60 meters in. yeah. the going so leaks explains mineralogy, thorsten lumber, that's the fuzzy that's you'll see like a 0 stage guys, a rupture and is the name i thought just as each volcanic eruption is. you name of tosses. the rupture unleashes powerful volcanic forces deep beneath
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the sol as carbon dioxide from the fluid. magma meets the ground water. more and more, c o 2 bubbles, collect 350 meters below the surface. when it finally erupt, the entire water column is propelled upward. it's just with one deep bonds in it, but it's gone. yeah, you can really see and feel the whole volcanic process. obviously somebody helps you understand the pressure and power behind it and it'll shoot another volcano erupt in the iphone bunkie. and i think the candles present the but when will that happen? the volcanoes of the life of willow souls extinct. now we know that only dormant deep underground, the colder and is still bubbling the,
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the traces of the last incident of a still clearly visible today. at 1st glance, lake last is a tranquil body of water, but it was created by the most powerful volcanic eruption in recent central european geological history. 13000 years ago the it's traces can be found on the nearby. vien gets big funds, the amended, the geologist goes to huffman and phone university. the will is a window into the distant past, the launcher for that's a 1000 john's 13000 years ago. this landscape didn't look fundamentally different from today. and then suddenly there was this explosion, 200 hurled ash and trucks some 40 to 50 kilometers into the atmosphere.
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the, the mass either option lasted several weeks as 1000 degrees celsius magma, mesa, ground water reservoir. the of the mountain top above was blown off by an explosion and steam as a huge column of ash with catapulted columbus is up into the at the other one is these are at some point this column collapsed and red hot ash rushed through the landscape along the valleys and through the brother valley, for instance, when it reached the rhine river, which already existed fact then cut the river off. the ashen debris swept over every thing and left behind a blanket, several meters deep,
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th, and stepped on. it's farther the funds of what kind of schools i'm just all stone. describe this one kind of corruption, tom designed and created a recivore around what is known if you today is the largest dominance at some point that broke on the hunters and others settled in the area experience to catastrophes and one lifetime would come. all schools 1st slopes and i and i felt kind of corruption and then a gigantic quarter search that went to all the way down the ryan valley into today's netherlands. the as the blue products flood zone done with this phone kind of explosions. and i thought it was more an explosion than interruption. this explosion, 13000 jews ago, left us traces fluid and you can see them on the wall here. as for us, these are, this is like a history book and we can study at the centrally read had this volcanic explosion
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happened to cut off each single layer as like a high resolution snapshots of an individual phase of the russian hill. to the postman. regularly leads groups of scientists through here. the layers of the will reveal the stages of the volcanic eruption. it doesn't say english this year, no matter why. so and so, and what's crazy is that such in there usually shows several tens of thousands of years with a few bonds. even here we have a 13 meter cross section that represents a few weeks at the most. this is just a few minutes. this single there is a collapse in cloud november's or any other center of the fi pulled the stone notes . this is different, so it's not. and so we and a we night with the red, blue mineral expelled from the mac mountains. the eiffel is one
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of the most important sites for reaching the world. okay. yeah. let me know at the moment if you look at it's under a magnifying glass, it's really beautiful. levine gets bad vanities punch of the unesco volcanic eiffel g or punk hoffman. and he's team and developing an app to allow virtual travel through the volcanic landscape. everything is precisely scanned and measured the new parking tom. i assume we using the volcanic eiffel jewel park as a reference model as the very 1st jewel park in germany that offers the completely digital turning package and all points of interest in this box can be viewed the desktop app. the app works with super precise satellite data,
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much more exact than basic navigation or hiking apps, the $100.00, again, it is a bunch. do you mind here? we want to map the while back there and 3 d doctor up to do this. you need a lot of photos on the right image processing software. if the drone can get close enough, you can get a good 3 d image. comes on the data, one of the, the drawing can also reach sections of the will that otherwise difficult to access the in the form of earthquakes warms and we don't want to paint to har. scenario bush of what happened. 13000 years ago happened again today in a densely populated region like the rhineland unfitness. the truth would be catastrophic island to this type of safari. large cities
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like bone industrial plants and refineries. the rhineland chemical belt, cologne, with mold and a 1000000 people. how can the region possibly protect itself from such a natural disaster? the federal academy for civil protection and disaster assistance. b, a, b k in the valley generate scenarios because such disasters. professor klaus right you to is researching possible consequences of a fresher option of the lake loc volcano to look new able to own. so i think even disabled it would be a very high eruption column design of the app, which would be closed off immediately because a landing simply wouldn't be possible. then you'd have to see how far and how
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quickly the rupturing cloud spreads, depending on the wind direction to move into the league of class and the phone soon, we'd have to consider whether vice was still usable with a critical infrastructure like trains and the power grid still worked, 20 certain vehicles may be able to drive on the free ways to evacuate people, but then things would get difficult. there are no other escape routes as you get exist in the problem is that in strongly con to landscapes like the valley or he in the eiffel people have settled in the valleys and so there are only 2 ways out and forwards and backwards. there is no other option to buy the house to come forward until the sign has been sent to the dispute. goes tvs in the strange i'll talk to you depending on where we uh, they will probably be casualties as well. but it's indeed to hospital is,
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must be prepared for this specific types of injuries that volcanic eruptions can cause. cotton was especially bones or stuff. so they have to have dedicated burn unit. so, but they also need specialized units for the se amputations and emergency surgical procedures. if that would be necessary after enough quick via the businesses, unless he does nobody the that is it even possible to prepare for such a disaster? the people who humans playing the order for executive ation plans or rules of conduct? what people should do in a specific situation. that's difficult, right now. there are no plans in place like that. that may be a mistake, but i don't think it's absolutely necessary yet. unlike with flooding, volcanic eruption allows more response time because it trust me outside
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volcanic eruptions come with ample warning in the form of trim is and gas emissions at lake law. it's easy to forget that the ground below has still not settled. the old vocab and create to is a unique natural paradise the but it, the lakes east and show there is still signs of volcanic activity, mo, fence carbon dioxide bubbling up through the war. so the nearby, the jersey would spill to study and recreation home. so young monk c, 1970, when 8 of them died inexplicably gas emissions from the lake. so what blamed the
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the young man were buried on the grounds of today's maria, lost abbey in the creek. under one of the smaller chapels with the monks really is fixated has never been confirmed. the professor hoffman and his team of geologist, the lake is of great interest the most fits are important to better understand volcanic activity in the eiffel. and to observe any changes the to, and viewers and shop cliff. it's interesting to me to you, scientists, september 5th show that there is still a volcanic activity here. and it's not only ever molten rock that comes out of the
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ground just involved in the it's mostly gas costs. and this is why the amount of escaping gas is continuously monitored, the via see and plus tax and gas. if we saw a gas emissions increasing and it would be a sign that there is activity underground perhaps indicating a coming vote kind of corruption. how scorpion going today? we know that the gas bubbles and mostly carbon dioxide, escaping from huge magnet chambers about 40 kilometers on the ground. but what does that tell us? does the gas come from the magma the interruption brought forth 13000 years ago, which is still slowly cooling? is fresh magma foaming under the lake? a new study involving researches from several gym and institutes raises these
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question. numerous week trim is at great depths, indicate that magma easy motion, but there in those to the signal. so i thought that the volcano was preparing for another eruption. the further west, the famous moans, a residence of hell, volcanoes shaped the landscape. the deep eyes of the eiffel divine failed mon you down is locally cold, the month of the dead, because of the neighbouring cemetery with its close cry to ring the pool, the amount is the deepest at more than 70 meters. it seems bush, unless the
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sofa told her so cloudy, a v by gibbet. the shelton marin ma is the most beautiful. she is published, a book of underwater photos from the crater lakes, which she worked on for years. the fact there, under the trees, there are always fish on one side. i can to take there because i smoke perch always hide under the trees among the branches. that's nice to, i'm always happy to see the dos and she comes here again and again, even when the temperature is dropping, the full. but it's the very special under water will have the iphone mines that fascinates the most the,
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the below the surface, the water of the miles, the still remarkably clear. no mess of the season. at this time of year, the water is only 10 degrees celsius in winter, it goes down to 3 or 4 degrees. the what happens would assume that it's in a coffee. sometimes it feels like the caribbean because of the turquoise blue water
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. and there are so many fish in official if you just float quietly, they will swim right by you by a common and when you died kind spot page by car and tension the hatch. there's really a lot to you. as a smoker, is she this here? it says in down here, flora and phone a bound, although most of the miles have no regular water in float. this said solely by rain morsa, which 1st seats through volcanic rock layers before flowing into the ma. well filtered and clean, the lesson is done. yeah, that's fine. so what fascinates me is the depth of some of them are supposed to be . the programmer is 17 meters deep and they're striking mountain mark is 35 meters deep ones. you can get a feel for it. steps at the creature room when you see how the sharp drop continues
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under the make sure it doesn't look for it. when was this that we need to be aware that it could go off at any time? that's just the way it is. and so, so so the last direction was 12 or 13000 years ago, scientists say one should occur roughly every 10000 years. so in fact, we're overdue, the mazda and volt tenant cones, grace the landscape within magical chum, and to test to the fiery past of the volcanic going. so the volcanic activities still everywhere, even if it's not always apparent. at 1st glance,
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the interval kind of going full region, the earth's surface is rising by about one millimeter per year. even more in some places. these can only be measured from high in the air. what's causing this? is that the gas is rising from the magnet chambers, deep underground pool, hot springs, the when the food comes to the only full traces of possible kind of captivity can be found in the topography of the landscape. bustle, colin's rise from summit, the numerous volcanic cones often hicks agonal, the figures which shaped thousands of years ago during a volcanic eruption when hot lava escaped and then slowly cooled. the the
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in the quarries of the volcanic eiffel lava best sold has been mined for centuries . as here near the village of strewn in the past, the hard stone was used for building houses and paving roads. even the banks of the rhine were fortified with 6 sided bass of columns. today the stone is mostly crushed into gravel and grits bene down is the most. are strewn stone. he manages the b quarry and knows the long history of the place for you and i, the solid beyond. there were 3 big of options here. 34000 years ago of these guns with and this whole valley filled up with lava via phone to close. the geologist are still looking for the old of back valley down here. and then also does all the others left off the,
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the lava flows solidified and phone the wide, 13 major stick layer of the best. so here's the phones advised me to look over there. for example, you can tell the difference. and down below, you can see the bus on to there and further up the visual wordly, where it gets some more reddish. you can see that there is lava and all that you can really tell that there's a hard to just look back there. that's the bustle to there. you can see the lives of the 1969, cory wood, because stumbled across a sensation. a blast released a huge rock formation from the quarry, will 15 meters up the head 1st. they weren't sure what they were looking at. a cool sample cleared it up. it was a gigantic lava boom that had been flung out of the volcanic crater.
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the strong love of them was discovered back there and just laid there for some time . finally, they were just a policy of strong decided they wanted to them. the question was, how to get this thing over there. it weighs $120.00 tons. how do you move a stone, measuring almost 5 meters across, over the fields from the quarry to the village? we don't watch the wind is blowing up on up the largest piece. it didn't mean deadlines and obviously they waited until the ground had frozen over the winter with the ies and stuff. it was under 5, then they welded big guy and plates together and rolled the bomb onto them. when i thought maybe i that should be a, took a large caterpillar and a bulldozer cushing from behind to move to boulder across the field to where they wanted it decided, oh, i'm a single octopus. but where did the joint real come from? the cool sample revealed that the lava bone consisted of many layers that had built
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up one after the other around a cool, like an onion. a lot of them was probably flung upwards during the rupture, and then repeatedly rolled back into the crater of the active volcano. in the process, it became sick and stick before it was finally encased in molten lava, where it remained until it was exposed in the quarry the . today it's the main attraction of the smooth village of drone. volcanic stone from the icy region was covered to building material as early as the middle ages. the maria la abbey was built mainly out of the dock bustled and light tough. the
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boston cathedral tough is even found on the tight sided central structure. the famous caroline, gee, an octagon, the v. tenix stone from the nearby only thing was also shipped along the rhine to help build cologne's cathedral and ice. so tough was continually used for repair. with brave men from the mineral rich village of vi been helped the 19 o one a railroad line was built now popular with tourists. as the full con. express these
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through the stone, like tough thomas and bustled to the rhine at the winter hub or in bruise. it was then loaded onto the ships a lifeline. so the iso and a stroke of luck for the village. a vibe in whitfield county corruptions full 100000 years ago, deposited a massive layer of tough perfect building materials for churches. the sauce is lloyd and easy to work with the flu. the same. if you look back from the 19th century onwards, at the construction of cathedrals and volts were being, you realize this is ideal material lightweight, an able to bet heavy load just thought a nice, why is the humans but ideal for the slender arches
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stretching toward the heavens. the worlds of ham, but also built with tough from vibe in or the stonemasons gave the stone and its characteristic surface texture with him is she's those and which is the po box for the cue and shit. the cory was also the production site in the stone was still dumped when it was brought to the store house on lava and then cuts into rough sizes for the stone masonry steinmetz situation fixed course and threw stuff out at the start of the 20th century. mold in 1200 stonemasons. what to you? tough from vibe in brush, a real boon to the small village. troops gushed each by a tough is a soft stone made up of solidified default kind of ash,
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depending on where they are found and see the layers can be course are quite fine. good guns, pine wood, don't change at the show. how do you say yet? does eat minus the number of houses here, where you can see that the masters and the cory owners had the money to have a leverage besides both on the outside, we apologize. the vibe in was able to afford its own water and sewer network earlier than on the villages and had electricity as early as 1915. but the demands that tough fell from the 19 sixty's on woods and the boom ended today. the many tough houses still bear witness to the village is full of my prosperity, the
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the many volcanic cousins of the eiffel with no certainly used as quarries. some of them still provide living spaces today of the, for the rulers of the middle ages, the top of such a volcano, it was a good place for a fortress. there were plenty of stones for building and was a panorama old brook console, for example, seats proudly at top of 460 meta high volt kenny cone. the new a board stands even higher as an altitude is more than 670 meters. but he's best known for the famous race cools at the foot of the mountain. the renewable agreeing was originally built to provide the pull eiffel region with a new source of income and under the asphalt,
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on which famous racing drivers have done their laps. line message of love of best sold from the quarries of the volcanic ice, so that your ability, even when burying a numerous loads, made them the ideal foundation the today, it's almost forgotten that the ancient ruin of new book castle sits on an extinct volcano. but the volcanic origin of many places can be seen from above the room. the bag is a cone and solidified slag in front of it is the stroma. it's almost completely silted up the
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sum of the extinct volcanoes provide the perfect conditions for recreational athletes may have failed tomorrow, for example, is popular with powered light is the what sits, the smaller upon from others is the form of its crate to ring. it's very steep and so exposed in some places that it makes, but just the right take off the slope. above the steep curved crate to ring, you can slide perfect circles if the wind is rise. and with a view like this, it's like a dream come true. the, the volt kenney calling the police a world of water. and not only because of its many months, there are plenty of places where water rises to the surface. as in the votes,
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she looked with its deep pools of volcanic tress of the list spectacular, but still valuable for the region is another phenomenon. there is springs everywhere in the eiffel, some hidden in the middle of the forest. andreas schuler from the volcanic eiffel, g, a cock knows where these trays come from. in the case of the guys in under. no, it's carbon dioxide that drives the ground water up through the volcanic rock. the that's what the zone the sea special aspect of this area is the fact that the water contains not only minerals but also a significant amount of carbon dioxide which device month. oh is the see me and we know from chemical studies that this,
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the to like other gases originates from the venting process of the magnet deep in the cross list and the opera mantle as well. so you can say that the iphones, mineral water is also contained, the brass of the volcanoes and heighten the would raise these celtic for willing spring, the dust. this is here, this is the dash side to raise its carbonated, it's busy and also it has a very, very high i am content on top. in fact, it's the mineral water with the highest i am content in the volcanic iphone isn't guy if you know we con josh i garo stein down. almost every community here has its own spring. the settlements grew up around them . either place this odds in some island been of these waters contain minerals and
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the guns and number may even have medicinal applications, intuitive properties. so good looks to be. and so the idea arose to capitalize on these properties, to bring some cash into the region. some of them all if let's go to the like your plan. today, the volcanic calling police known for its many varieties of curative mineral water . the rule lake and the north west of the field is also a drinking water reservoir. a massive dam holds back the ruler river at almost 80 meters in height. it protects the people down stream from a catastrophic flood. but what would happen is the dam was damaged say, why a powerful this quake. this is why deep down in the dam daily inspections that performed to ensure everything is in order. this is the job of dam safety engineer,
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band hod hipkins. the pendulum shows every little movement, minimal swings, and normal. they may, madame, is functioning properly. but what is the nearby volcanic eiffel stance to rumble? if the volcanoes reawaken the 1st quakes would be the 1st signs we are leading to my inbox. when that's when we're talking about around 200000000 cubic meters of water. tom, height of 77 meters. if something happened, it would be huge. and so we just have to make sure that the safety is guaranteed around the clock is here in the fall south of the volcanic, only 2 lines, an important measuring station else console stands and assigned valley of the most
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a river. the doctor bridget took snuff by a intrude hits besides my logical observer, treat that cologne university. she and her colleague klaus fleischer visit the 12th century console regularly. they have no interest in oreos or targets. they going underground the here in the deepest volt of the castle, directly on the rocky ground. the university has installed a highly sensitive science, mcgrath it registers every vibration, no matter how gentle the, let's see, i'm the i for i'm this will here any i said we have on average about 50 to
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a 100 tremors a year. but most of them are so minor that they cannot be solved by humans. each month i mentioned bonnie mazda and all that stuff, the whole let's this distant trema. exactly. isn't that something? let us give us just before 12 or 12, it will have to take a look later. it was relatively short a quarter to those which is so this waves from a bloss to effect. and then from there, i was calls. that could be this course to be most of the strongest quick we have recorded with instruments was in 2007 near, besides, which had a magnitude of 3.9 and was felt over a great distance and found on the bottom. it was in 2015 the science, my logical station recorded an unusual phenomena that is occupied the scientific world ever since. thus, trim is from deep beneath the eiffel,
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the doesn't know what to keeps me in the dark knees, with the deepest quakes ever recorded in germany. and they had a special signature on the thing. that's what they look different from the quakes we usually see here. this does not necessarily mean that maxima is rising, but there is definite movement of the vehicle movement that could indicate that maxima is gathering a gain on the ground. the volcano is becoming active. these raises questions, the emissions you got to somebody in which areas should we actually expect this mainly in the area of lake laugh or perhaps even further west horror. volcanic centers were more recently active. the goal is to better understand what is down there and how dangerous it may be. i don't, does that auto see a goal shed by seismic
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geologist, professor russia, to at the federal academy of civil protection. so he's what the measurements are important to indicate is these at people's insect line is inclined to shoot a woman. these earthquakes very small trim is open ended the interesting point because such an accumulation may full cost of all kind of corruption. hospital fine is that worked really well with a lot palm interruption. this year. we had seismic signals that effectively full cost this maxima rise. the package piece is the might be some lockman of duke and changing the diesel, loud enough time to prepare. thousands of people for the massive erupt should have cooper in the house and to bring them to safety from the ash and red hot lava
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knowledge, which is just as valuable. so the ice will be your moving time. this is by steve, this idea of what we're doing here at the moment is passive. we're just listening to the us and trying to interpret signals coming from different depths. this could hear me now let's see to the earthquakes at lake last, where the deepest earthquakes in all of gemini, a record that go down to about 40 kilometers. which means that we have to position additional devices and listen to different locations against window sheet. the with us as to specify move and that's what we're working on and why the eiffel is a real laboratory for us, a moving research project and why it is actually a jewel of research of volcanic activity in germany. this we can use moving to arch then the a june bonus bio of fire,
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still smoldering deep beneath the eye. so no one knows when the volcanoes will awaken. but one thing is certain, we will be ready for it. the the a pulse, the beginning of a story that takes us along for the ride. it's about the perspectives culture information. this is the, the news w. mines here, rocks forgotten,
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