Mt Vesuvius is a famous mountain. Mt Vesuvius lies on the outskirts of Naples, Italy and is one of the most famous volcanoes in the world. Mt Vesuvius is a stratovolcano which means it was built in alternate layers, these layers were layers of lava and ash. Around seventeen to twenty five years ago Mt Vesuvius was formed.
Figure 2: Map showing the location of Mount Vesuvius on the west coast of Italy. Map by Geology.com and Map Resources. Nearby Volcanoes: Etna Stromboli
The benefits
The benefits volcanoes would provide:
1. Heat in the form of heated springs, pools of water and the soul around volcanoes are often very fertile because of the ash that was cooled.
2. Volcanic soil is full of nutrients and would be ideal for growing crops. Volcanic ash contains minerals which help this process.
3. Cooled volcanic ash may also form new land masses and other things such as islands.
4. Volcanoes can release harmful vapours but they can also release healthy gases such as hydrogen and carbon dioxide. Hydrogen mixed together with oxygen can produce vapour which adds to the water cycle. Carbon dioxide helps with the process of photosynthesis.
5. Volcanoes provide geothermal energy.
6. Diamonds are often found within volcanic rocks. Diamonds are made by extreme heat changing the molecular structure of coal.
7. Volcanic material also has a source of metal, gold, silver, molybdenum, copper, zinc, lead and as well as mercury.
Mt Vesuvius eruptions
August 24, 79AD
This is the most famous eruption that has been produced from the volcano of Pompeii and arguably one of the most well appraised volcanic eruptions in the world. On this day the volcanic eruption had wiped out the entire town of Pompeii, Italy and destroyed parts of...
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... and pyroclastic flows. It is estimated that a total of 16,000 people were killed by the lava and buried by it too and only around 2000 people survived the experience.
The Roman poet, Pliny the Younger who was around 18 years at the time, was one of the most important witnesses to the eruption. Pliny reported that people were trying to escape the heaps of ash that covered the surface of the earth. On the following morning, there was another eruption that was stronger than the first eruption. The second eruption is the eruption that killed most people and destroyed most of the two towns.
It was when the rain mixed with the ash from the volcano that the city was sort of cemented. What happened is that the ash was hardened by the rain’s coolness, and in this way the ash hardened over the city of Pompeii and Herculaneum. This is how the city of Pompeii became cemented.
On the afternoon of 24th August 79 AD, a volcano called Mt. Vesuvius erupted, which resulted in destroyed lives of citizens, it was estimated that there were 10 to 12 thousand people who occupied the city .The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and a few others were severely affected by the eruption. The cities are well known for its beautiful landscapes and its temperate climate.Pompeii is based in the south, close to Naples in the region of Campania in Italy.The eruption started a series of events such as pumice,rocks and ashes falling down and caused hot volcanic gases to rise high in the sky, people from around 100 miles away could see the event unfolding.The remains of Pompeii and other cities was frozen in time due to the pyroclastic surges
So what events led up to this violent eruption? A scientist used qualitative and quantitative data to reconstruct a timeline. Three years prior to the April 1815 years the volcano began to rumble and generate a dark cloud around the summit. Then in the early evening of April 5th 1815 there was a moderate-sized eruption. The detonations sounded like the discharge of cannons and could be heard as far away as Ternate, 1400km away (Stothers, 1984). A man by the name of Sir Stamford Raffles heard these sounds wrote:
On May 22, 1915, an explosive eruption at Lassen Peak devastated nearby areas and rained volcanic ash farther 200 miles to the east! This explosion was the most powerful in a series of eruptions from 1914 through 1917. ...
The actual eruption of Vesuvius was of the explosive nature. The catastrophic eruption in 79 AD took place in a period that is estimated to have unfolded over 25 hours and took place in two stages (Museum tim...
Volcanoes have always been a mysterious wonder of the world. Volcanoes have shaped the landscape and the very ground that we all live on. People have written stories of their disastrous eruptions, and painted their marvelous shapes on canvas. The essay will outline some of the more famous volcanoes and how they have impacted are history. Mount Vesuvius that destroy the great city of Pompeii, Krakatoa they spewed deadly ash on small village town, and Mount St. Helen, the only volcano in my own country to every erupt during my own time period.
This eruptions cause a leatral blasts ,lava flows , hot ash flows and many other disaster .
These differences are in the makeup of the volcano, the impact on society, and the eruption itself. Mount Saint Helens, used to be a wonder of the world, but now a damage site of what happened on May 18, 1980. Mauna Loa is a tourist destination and one of the most active dispensers of lava and magma in the world. As shown, these volcanoes can’t be more different. Yet, each volcano has been a culprit to destruction, and have similarities within themselves. This report has expressed many similarities and differences and brought facts and knowledge to the historical eruptions by these impressive and ancient structures of
Stories about volcanoes are captivating. Myths come in different versions, but all of them are capable of capturing yours, and everybody’s imagination.
Super volcanoes are formed when magma rises from the mantle to create a scorching reservoir in the Earth's
while trying to help the residents of Pompeii. Today the type of eruption that Mount Vesuvius
Firstly, I believe the eruption of Santorini was more powerful than first estimated, due to the presence of a shallow sea inside the Theran crater, with the volcano situated in the centre of that sea. (This is the theory of Professor Steve Sparks of Bristol University)
There are two types of Igneous rocks. The first is intrusive, which is when the magma slowly cools beneath the earths surface. Because the magma is cooling slowly it allows the rocks end result to form crystal- like pigments. Examples of intrusive igneous rocks are Diorite, Gabbro, Granite, Pegmatite, and Periodotite. All of these rocks are course and grainy. The other type is an extrusive Igneous rock. This lava erupts onto the surface of the earth and cools rapidly also forming crystals, the lava cools so fast that at times it allows the rocks to form as clear-like glass. Examples of these rocks are Andesite, Basalt, Obsidian, Pumice, Rhyolite, Scoria,
Volcanoes are formed when magma is expelled from the Earth’s surface, resulting in volcanic eruptions consisting of ash and lava. Over time, the lava cools and forms into rock on the Earth’s surface. Whenever an eruption occurs, the newly-formed rock from the lava layers continuously until the volcano takes its shape. Volcanic eruptions have taken place for thousands of years, and even today, according to the U.S Geological Survey (2010), there are approximately 1500 active volcanoes located throughout the world.
Mount Vesuvius is a strato-volcano consisting of a volcanic cone (Gran Cono) that was built within a summit caldera (Mount Somma). The Somma-Vesuvius complex has formed over the last 25,000 years by means of a sequence of eruptions of variable explosiveness, ranging from the quiet lava outpourings that characterized much of the latest activity (for example from 1881 to 1899 and from 1926 to 1930) to the explosive Plinian eruptions, including the one that destroyed Pompeii and killed thousands of people in 79 A.D. At least seven Plinian eruptions have been identified in