Earthcache Schlackenkegel Eppelsberg

Sadly the old plattform is gone - till the new plattform is ready, please use the following Informations to log the Cache: 

Picture-Koordinates (and parking nearby):
N50 24.077 E007 19.214

1) Take a Picture at the Coordinates with you or your GPS with a sign showing you nickname and the date you have been here - according to the guideline change from 06/10/2019 it is once again allowed to ask for this picture as a proof:



2) Send the answeres of the following questions to me, you can log directly, i´ll write you an info, if there is something wrong or missing:
a) How old is the Eppelsberg approximately? (look at the  infoboards)
b) How high is the wall, given by the infoboard?
c) Which number has the eppelsberg on the map that shows the area around maria laach?

3) Create a drawing or model of the cinder cone and upload a picture of it

Thanks for your visit, all other informations can be read at the "old" listing:

Earthcache Cinder Cone Eppelsberg



Picture and answeres to the questions at: N50 24.197 E007 19.125
Parking at: N50 24.058 E007 19.216 

Cinder Cone: 

At the beginning of the volcanic activity a break-down crater forms, around this a ring embankment develops itself. In the main outbreak phase grows the actual cinder cone, which can be arranged into the units craters and cinder embankment. Into the range of the crater the chimney rises up, by which the glow-liquid magma ascended. The cinder embankment develops the volcanic cone, which is overlaid by surface layers with its interior and external embankment.  

In the Eppelsberg the layers developed from two different modes of conveyance of volcanic and nonvolcanic material. Drop deposits outweigh, which are developed if the material in the eruption column, hurled from the chimney, ascends into the atmosphere and is drifted by predominating hoist in an eruption cloud. The particles stop raining then as a function of their weight sooner or later as so-called fall out from the eruption cloud. The drop deposits are characterised, like also in the quarry of the Eppelsbergs, by a continuous slimness, which decreases with increasing distance from the outbreak center.
If an eruption column does not ascend highly, spread cloud material-loaded by the outbreak center at the ground as, form ground cloud deposits separate. If material-poor pressure waves and/or high-speed clouds (surges) of the crater depart, so-called Surge deposits develop. Supply a reference to this mode of conveyance the changing powerfulnesses of the layers as well as thinning the layers out at obstacles and a regulation not-volcanic rock to direction of propagation of the ground clouds. 



During the Eppelsberg volcanic eruption a glow-liquid Lavafrazzle was formed during the flight roundish and solidified to a volcanic bomb. This about 3 tons heavy bomb knocked into approximately 200 meters distance to the outbreak center into the cinder embankment. Approx. 7 tons lying behind the heavy block comes of the crater range the Eppelsberg volcano. It consists of welded with one another Lavafrazzle, which were hurled during magma tables the outbreak phase on the edge of crater. From there the enormous block on the over-divided interior embankment of the cinder cone rolled back into the crater range. Bomb and block were opened in the course of the dismantling in the quarry and transported to the opinion to another place (in the proximity of one of the diagrams at the parking lot). The Eppelsberg cinder cone is approx. 200,000 years old 



In order to log this Earthcache please fulfill the following exercises:

Before logging please find the answers to the following questions and mail them to me:

1) How many infoboards are located near the coordinates?
2) Who is nesting at the hollows of the Eppelsberg-Vulcano (3 Names)?
3) What is the name of the different-colored layers at the upper miningwall?
4) How many layers has the Lapilliband?
5) How high is the cinder cone of the vulcano according to one of the informationboards (not the highness of the face vis-à-vis - that averages 60 meters)?

After Logpermission please upload a picture of you or your gps at the mentioned coordinates and a drawing or model of the cinder cone.
Sample picture: