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Mt. Vesuvius is an active volcano located east of Naples, Italy that is known for its catastrophic eruption in 79 AD that buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The eruption occurred while Pliny the Elder attempted a sea rescue of Pompeii residents and resulted in his death. Pliny the Younger later provided detailed eyewitness accounts of the eruption in letters to Tacitus, describing the tall eruption column and widespread ashfall that blanketed the cities. Today, Vesuvius remains highly active and poses a threat to nearby populations as a complex stratovolcano capable of explosive eruptions.

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PLINIAN

Mt. Vesuvius is an active volcano located east of Naples, Italy that is known for its catastrophic eruption in 79 AD that buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The eruption occurred while Pliny the Elder attempted a sea rescue of Pompeii residents and resulted in his death. Pliny the Younger later provided detailed eyewitness accounts of the eruption in letters to Tacitus, describing the tall eruption column and widespread ashfall that blanketed the cities. Today, Vesuvius remains highly active and poses a threat to nearby populations as a complex stratovolcano capable of explosive eruptions.

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SLIDE 1

Mt. Vesuvius, devoted and believed by ancient Romans as the embodiment of the
Demigod Hercules.
It is named after their patron god, Hercules, hence the name Vesouvios (Ὓσου
υἱός), "Son of Ves."
Ves is Zeus, the father of their patron demigod.
Mount Vesuvius was regarded by the Greeks and Romans as being sacred to the hero
and
demigod Hercules/Heracles, and the town of Herculaneum, built at its base, was also
named after him.

SLIDE 2 VIDEO
- - called as Monte Vesuvio in Italian
- is one of Europe's most active volcanoes.
It is best known for its famous cataclysmic eruption in
AD 79 that buried the Roman settlements of Pompeii and Herculaneum under 19 meters
of a thick carpet of volcanic ash
- The ruined city remained frozen in time until it was discovered by a surveying
engineer in 1748.
- Underneath all that dust, Pompeii was almost exactly as
it had been almost 2,000 years before. Its buildings were intact.
Skeletons were frozen right where they’d fallen AND HAD THEIR LAST BREATH.

SLIDE 3
- Mt Vesuvius being located at the east of the city of Naples,
near the coast of the Bay of Naples, situated in Southern Italy.
It is located beside Pompeii and Herculaneum, the cities it had
destroyed and blanketed in volcanic ash and pumice in the catastrophic eruption of
79 AD.
- 80044 Ottaviano, Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy
- East of Naples
- South Italy

SLIDE OF LAST ERUPTION


- Over 80 planes were destroyed by the ash fall from the eruption, with Vesuvius
taking out more B-25s than a Nazi air raid later in the year.

SLIDE OF CLASSIFICATION
• 4,203 feet (1,281 meters)

• The volcano also has a semicircular ridge called Mount Somma


that rises to 3,714 feet (1,132 m). The valley between the cone and
Mount Somma is called Valle del Gigante or Giant's Valley.

• classed as a complex stratovolcano because its eruptions typically


involve explosive eruptions as well as pyroclastic flows.

• Plinian Type of eruption

• part of the Campanian volcanic arc.

THE TWO PLINYS


The story goes like this
Pliny the elder is a very famous Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher,
and naval and army
commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian
he died in 79 AD while attempting to rescue a friend and his family by ship to
safety
to flee from the ongoing eruption of mt vesuvius at the time, which was destroying
pompeii
and herculaneum. During the event, Pliny the Elder Died

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Pliny wrote the two letters describing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius approximately
25 years after the event, and both were sent in response to the request of his
friend, the
historian Tacitus, who wanted to know more about Pliny the Elder's death.
The two letters have great historical value due to their accurate description of
the Vesuvius eruption; Pliny's attention to detail in the letters about Vesuvius is
so keen that modern volcanologists describe those types of eruptions as "Plinian
eruptions"

his account became the first detailed description of a volcanic eruption in


history. He wrote:

“Its general appearance can best be expressed as being like an umbrella pine, for
it rose
to a great height on a soft trunk and then split off into branches.”

Volcanologists now refer to eruptions with a tall plume that cover large areas
with ash as ‘Plinian’ eruptions.
The writer Pliny the Younger described ‘the shrieks of women, the screams of
children
and the shouts of men; convinced that there were now no gods at all and
that the final endless night of which we have heard had come upon the world’.

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