Sleeping in our back garden, part II: The Laacher See and the secrets of dating
In the previous post Gijs described the surprising history of Europe’s most underestimated volcanic field. Much of the time the Eifel does nothing. On occasion it does a small eruption, just when you weren’t looking. And very rarely, it goes big, covering the surrounding areas in meter-thick ash. Gijs described the area, the monogenetic volcanoes,…