Table of Contents:
  • Formation of Maars. Maars of the Westeifel (Germany) / G. Buchel. Syn- and posteruptive mechanisms of the Alaskan Ukinrek Maars in 1977 / G. Buchel and V. Lorenz
  • Regional Overview. Maars and maar lakes of the Westeifel Volcanic Field / J.F.W. Negendank and B. Zolitschka. Maars of northern Auvergne (Massif Central, France): State of knowledge / E. Juvigne, G. Camus and A. de Goer de Herve. Paleoenvironmental investigations on long sediment cores from volcanic lakes of Lazio (central Italy)
  • An overview / M. Follieri, D. Magri and B. Narcisi
  • Seismics. Geophysical mapping of organic sediments / S. Wende and R. Kirsch. Preliminary uniboom survey of the Monticchio Lakes (southern Italy) / A. Stefanon. Sonar investigations in the Laghi di Monticchio (Mt. Vulture, Italy) / R.B. Hansen. Climatic and tectonic effects on sedimentation in central Italian volcano lakes (Latium)
  • Implications from high resolution seismic profiles / F. Niessen, A. Lami and P. Guilizzoni
  • Sedimentology.
  • Sediments and basin analysis of Lake Schalkenmehrener Maar / T. Heinz, B. Rein and J.F.W. Negendank. Organic carbon contents of sediments from Lake Schalkenmehrener Maar: A palaeoclimate indicator / B. Rein and J.F.W. Negendank. Basin analysis for selected time-frames using sedimentation rates in Lake Meerfelder Maar (Westeifel, FRG) / F. Wegner and J.F.W. Negendank. Turbidites in the sediments of Lake Meerfelder Maar (Germany) and the explanation of suspension sediments / D. Drohmann and J.F.W. Negendank. Palaeoclimate reconstruction at the Pleistocene/Holocene transition
  • a varve dated microstratigraphic record from Lake Meerfelder Maar (Westeifel, Germany) / D. Poth and J.F.W. Negendank. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Late- and Postglacial sedimentary record of Lake Weinfelder Maar / A. Brauer and J.F.W. Negendank. Sedimentology and paleoenvironment from the maar Lac du Bouchet for the last climatic cycle, 0
  • 120,000 years (Massif Central, France) / E. Truze and K. Kelts.
  • Lago Grande di Monticchio (southern Italy)
  • a high resolution sedimentary record of the last 70,000 years / B. Zolitschka and J.F.W. Negendank. A multidisciplinary study of the Vico Maar sequence (Latium, Italy): Part of the last cycle in the Mediterranean area. Preliminary results / P. Francus, S. Leroy, I. Mergeai, G. Seret and G. Wansard
  • Geochemistry. Environmental geology and geochemistry of lake sediments (Holzmaar, Eifel, Germany) / B.G. Lottermoser, R. Oberhansli, B. Zolitschka, J.F.W. Negendank, U. Schutz and J. Boenecke. Geochemistry of Lago Grande di Monticchio (southern Italy) / C. Robinson, G.B. Shimmield and K.M. Creer. Tephrochronology of core C from Lago Grande di Monticchio / A. Newton and A. Dugmore
  • Palaeomagnetism. A palaeomagnetic study of maar-lake sediments from the Westeifel / B. Haverkamp and T. Beuker. Preliminary 50 m palaeomagnetic records from Lac du Bouchet, Haute Loire (France) / T. Williams, K.M. Creer and N. Thouveny.
  • Palaeomagnetic investigations of Lago Grande di Monticchio (southern Italy) / I. Turton
  • Palaeobiology. Late-Glacial/Holocene changes of the climate and trophic conditions in three Eifel maar lakes, as indicated by faunal remains. I. Cladocera / W. Hofmann. Late-Glacial/Holocene changes of the climate and trophic conditions in three Eifel maar lakes, as indicated by faunal remains. II. Chironomidae (Diptera) / W. Hofmann. Ostracoda (Crustacea) and trichoptera (Insecta) from Late- and Postglacial sediments of some European maar lakes / B.W. Scharf. Oligocene dinoflagellate-cysts in Quaternary freshwater sediments of Eifel maars / H. Weiler
  • Tertiary Maar Lakes. Tertiary maars of the Hocheifel Volcanic Field (Germany) / G. Buchel and M. Pirrung. Some aspects of Cenozoic maar sediments in Europe: The source rock potential and their exceptionally good fossil preservation / W. Zimmerle.
  • Palaeoecological implications from the sedimentary record of a subtropical maar lake (Eocene Eckfelder Maar, Germany) / B. Zolitschka. Arthropods from the Eocene Eckfelder Maar (Eifel, Germany) as a source for paleoecological information / H. Lutz. Flowers from the Middle Eocene of Eckfeld (Eifel, Germany)
  • First results / H. Frankenhauser and V. Wilde. Initial results on the importance of a flora from the Middle Eocene of Eckfeld (Eifel, Germany) / V. Wilde and H. Frankenhauser
  • Future Plans. International Maar Deep Drilling Project (MDDP)
  • A challenge for earth sciences? / J.F.W. Negendank and B. Zolitschka.