Booser Doppelmaar

The two maars were formed 10,150 to 14,160 years ago and belong to the Quaternary volcano field of the Volcanic Eifel.[Anm.

The two maars form large, circular basins surrounded by tuff embankments that lie on a line running west-southwest to east-northeast and thus follow the Variscan strike of the terrain.

In the immediate vicinity of the Booser Doppelmaar there is a total of eight cinder cones, that were formed more or less simultaneously about 35,000 years ago.

[2] A lava stream flowed from one of these volcanic cones westwards reaching the valley of the Nitz.

In the reserve, on the hill of the Schneeberg (on the embankment on the eastern side of the east-northeastern maar) is the Eifel Tower.