Benefits Of Mount Vesuvius

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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.

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