
New hints of volcanism under the heart of northern Europe - headalgorithm
https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/new-hints-volcanism-under-heart-northern-europe
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f_allwein
Interesting, but the headline is a bit misleading. „The heart of Northern
Europe“ sounds like it’s in the Nordic countries, whereas the study is about
the Eifel region, in the West of Germany and pretty close to the heart of
Europe.

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lambdasquirrel
Yeah that's kind of a big deal, since there's plenty of known volcanism in
Italy. Eifel is still along ways from Pompeii though.

To put it another way, I wouldn't worry until they start having hot springs
over there.

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PeterStuer
The region is full of nuclear plants though.

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mbeex
Define 'region'. Germany as a whole has six nuclear power plants left, with
planned shutdowns not after 2022.

[https://www.bmu.de/themen/atomenergie-
strahlenschutz/nuklear...](https://www.bmu.de/themen/atomenergie-
strahlenschutz/nukleare-sicherheit/aufsicht-ueber-
kernkraftwerke/kernkraftwerke-in-deutschland/)

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PeterStuer
The German one's are indeed extinguising, but the reactors Thiange (Belgium)
and Cattenom (France) are still operational.

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tannhaeuser
What's new about it? The Eifel region (a part of which is literally called
Vulkan-Eifel) has been known for centuries if not milleniae for its volcano
seas. "Maar" is even part of many city names in that region.

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Etheryte
Perhaps a better title would be "Hints of new volcanic activity under the
Eifel region". The geographic background is well known, but the study finds
the activity was larger than expected:

> The Eifel area is the only region in the study where the ground motion
> appeared significantly greater than expected

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dreen
Those lakes seem to have no flow of water in or out, so I guess they just rely
on groundwater flow to refill it, but how come it didnt overgrow and fill up
with mud centuries ago?

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s1artibartfast
A lack of flowing rivers carrying sediment to the lakes probably helps the
lakes, there is less mud to fill them up.

