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Mount Vesuvius (in Italian Monte Vesuvio and in Latin Mons Vesuvius ) is a stratovolcano east of Naples, Italy. It is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hun...
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Mt. Vesuvius, famous for it's role in the destruction of the ancient city of Pompei, is located near Naples, Italy and is classified as a stratovolcano. A stratovolcano is tall and steep, resembling a cone, and periodically erupts, causing ...
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Today two million people live in the immediate vicinity of Mount Vesuvius. This mountain has erupted more than 50 times since ... For excellent coverage of Pompeii, Vesuvius, and the continuing narrative of tragic human involvement with nature, readers may want to locate a copy of Planet Earth: Volcano by Time-Life Books.
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The volcano Vesuvius at Herculaneum ... Mount Vesuvius is an active volcano, originated during the late Pleistocene Epoch. It is famous for its catastrophic eruption in 79 A.C. when the town of Pompei, Herculaneum, Oplonti and Stabiae were completely destroyed and buried in less than two days time.
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The most recent activity of the Campanian plain is that of the Somma-Vesuvius volcano which spans the period between 25000 years ago and the recent. ... Eruption Type ... Hamilton W., 1795, An Account of the Late Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a Letter to Sir Joseph Banks , Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London , p. 73-116...
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A cinder cone is a type of volcano that is made of loose rock fragments that have been ejected from the volcano. Cinder cones are the smallest types of volcanoes. ... These flows can travel up to 60 miles from the volcano. Flows from Mount Vesuvius killed the citizens and buried the city of Pompeii in 79 AD.
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Cinder cones are the simplest type of volcano. They are built from particles and blobs of congealed lava ... In a "Vesuvian" eruption, as typified by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy in A.D. 79, great quantities of ash-laden gas are violently discharged to form cauliflower-shaped cloud high above the volcano.
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an ancient city of Italy, in the Campania Region, built at the mouth of the Sarnus River (now Sarno), a few miles south of Mount Vesuvius, between Herculaneum and Stabiae. The city was ... Mt. Vesuvius is still active today. It is the only active volcano on the European mainland.Its last eruption happenned in 1944.
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