1 Plateau Uplift of the Rhenish Massif - Introductory Remarks.- 2 Regional Tectonic Setting and Geological Structure of the Rhenish Massif.- 3 Pre-Quaternary Uplift in the Central Part of the Rhenish Massif.- 4.1 Plateau Uplift During Pleistocene Time - Preface.- 4.2 The Early Pleistocene Terraces of the Upper Middle Rhine and Its Southern Foreland - Questions Concerning Their Tectonic Interpretation.- 4.3 Distribution and Dimension of Young Tectonics in the Neuwied Basin and the Lower Middle Rhine.- 4.4 The Rhine Valley Between the Neuwied Basin and the Lower Rhenish Embayment.- 4.5 The Tectonic Position of the Lower Mosel Block in Relation to the Tertiary and Old Pleistocene Sediments.- 4.6 Cenozoic Deposits of the Eifel-Hunsrück Area Along the Mosel River and Their Tectonic Implications.- 4.7 Neotectonic Movements at the Southern and Western Boundary of the Hunsruck Mountains (Southwestern Part of the Rhenish Massif).- 4.8 The Lower Pleistocene Terraces of the Lahn River Between Dietz (Limburg Basin) and Laurenburg (Lower Lahn).- 4.9 Quaternary Tectonics and River Terraces at the Eastern Margin of the Rhenish Massif.- 4.10 The Late Tertiary-Quaternary Tectonics of the Palaeozoic of the Northern Eifel.- 4.11 The Quaternary Destruction of an Older, Tertiary Topography Between the Sambre and Ourthe Rivers (Southern Ardennes).- 5.1 Distribution of Volcanic Activity in Space and Time.- 5.2 Tertiary Volcanism of the Hocheifel Area.- 5.3 Volcanism in the Southern Part of the Hocheifel.- 5.4 Tertiary Volcanism in the Siebengebirge Mountains.- 5.5 Tertiary Volcanism in the Westerwald Mountains.- 5.6 Tertiary Volcanism in the Northern Hessian Depression.- 5.7 The Quaternary Eifel Volcanic Fields.- 5.8 Carbon Dioxide in the Rhenish Massif.- 5.9 Eocene to Recent Volcanism Within the Rhenish Massif and the Northern Hessian Depression - Summary.- 6.1 Height Changes in the Rhenish Massif: Determination and Analysis.- 6.2 Stress Field and Strain Release in the Rhenish Massif.- 6.3 General Pattern of Seismotectonic Dislocation and the Earthquake-Generating Stress Field in Central Europe Between the Alps and the North Sea.- 6.4 Historical Seismicity and Present-Day Microearthquake Activity of the Rhenish Massif, Central Europe.- 6.5 Microearthquake Activity Near the Southern Border of the Rhenish Massif.- 6.6 Geothermal Investigations in the Rhenish Massif.- 6.7 The Gravity Field of the Rhenish Massif.- 7.1 The Long-Range Seismic Refraction Experiment in the Rhenish Massif.- 7.2 Combined Seismic Reflection-Refraction Investigations in the Rhenish Massif and Their Relation to Recent Tectonic Movements.- 7.3 Electrical Conductivity Structure of the Crust and Upper Mantle Beneath the Rhenish Massif.- 7.4 The Evolution of the Hercynian Crust - Some Implications to the Uplift Problem of the Rhenish Massif.- 7.5 Large-Scale Mantle Heterogeneity Beneath the Rhenish Massif and Its Vicinity from Teleseismic P-Residuals Measurements.- 7.6 Crustal Xenoliths in Tertiary Volcanics from the Northern Hessian Depression.- 7.7 Crustal Xenoliths and Their Evidence for Crustal Structure Underneath the Eifel Volcanic District.- 7.8 Mantle Xenoliths in the Rhenish Massif and the Northern Hessian Depression.- 7.9 Relation of Geophysical and Petrological Models of Upper Mantle Structure of the Rhenish Massif.- 8.1 Gravity Anomaly and Density Distribution of the Rhenish Massif.- 8.2 Uplift, Volcanism and Tectonics: Evidence for Mantle Diapirs at the Rhenish Massif.- 9 Epilogue: Mode and Mechanism of Rhenish Plateau Uplift.