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MT.VESUVIUS
LOCATION
• MT. VESUVIUS IS
LOCATED IN
VESUVIUS,ITALY
• MT.VESUVIUS’
ELEVATION IS 4,200
FEET
CREATION
• MT. VESUVIUS WAS CREATED BY THE
COLLAPSE OF THE SOMMA RIM
17,000 YEARS AGO
79 A.D.
• THE ERUPTION IN
79 A.D. SENT 10
FEET OF TEPHRITE
FALLING ON TO
THE TOWN OF
POMPEII.
THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE MOLD OF A
DOG THAT WAS CHAINED TO A POLE
AT THE TIME OF THE ERUPTION.
DEATHS
• 3,360 PEOPLE DIED
IN THE ERUPTION
OF 79 A.D.
• IN THE PICTURE
ARE SKELETONS
OF PEOPLE WHO
TRIED TO HIDE
FROM THE ASH
TYPE
• MT. VESUVIUS IS
CURRENTLY
DORMANT AND IS
A
STRATOVOLCANO
ROCK
• THE ROCK FOUND
ON MT.VESUVIUS
IS TEPHRITE, A
BASALTIC ROCK.
• THE OLDEST ROCK
FOUND AT
VESUVIUS IS
300,000 YEARS
OLD.
ERUPTION
MT. VESUVIUS IS A COMPOSITE VOLCANO AND HAS
PYROCLASTIC FLOWS
The Somma-Vesuvius volcanic complex is a central composite
volcano formed by and older stratovolcano (Monte Somma) with a
summit caldera partially filled by the composite cone of Vesuvius.
Herculaneum was buried under 75 feet (23 m) of ash deposited by a
pyroclastic flow. This photo shows buildings that were near the
waterfront.
Vesuvius has continued its activity intermittently ever
since A.D.79 with numerous minor eruptions and
several major eruptions occurring in 1631, 1794, 1872,
1906, and in 1944 in the midst of the Italian campaign
of World War II. ...
In a "Vesuvian" eruption, as
typified by the eruption of Mount
Vesuvius in A.D.79, great quantities
of ash-laden gas are violently
discharged to form a cauliflowershaped cloud high above the
volcano.
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