Wolf-Canyon
Shortly after the Wassenach Tönissteiner river rises - is his quiet course, until he suddenly plunges into the depths of several meters and is searching for his wildly meandering path through volcanic ash. This section in the course of the stream is called the Wolf-Canyon. With their contrasting emotions - dark and dense trees, light rock and the roaring river - the Wolf-Canyon is one of the peculiarities in the Volcano Park Brohltal / Laacher See
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13,000 years ago, when the hot, unconsolidated ashes from the eruption of large Laacher See avalanche filled the Tönissteiner Valley, the creek had to be looking for a new bed and cut the mighty ash. Through the constant erosion performance of small creek formed until today, with its spectacular history of the waterfall and the alternation of narrow gorges and broad river valleys..
This variety of natural phenomena along the 600-meter Stecke observed by Wolf Canyon.
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