2. The Facts What,When,Where Date: 24 August, AD 79 Time: Morning of 24 August Located: On Italy’s west coast, it overlooks the Bay and City of Naples and sits in the crater of the ancient Somma volcano. 1277 meters (4190 feet) Height: Base: 48 kilometres Age: 17,000 years old
3. The location of Vesuvius What,When,Where Longitude: 14° 25' 29" Latitude: 40° 49' 14"
6. Causes Mount Vesuvius is a destructive plate boundary At a destructive plate boundary is where a oceanic plate moves towards (and disappears into the mantle of) a continental plate or another oceanic plate. This is the subduction zone. As it is forced downwards, pressure at the margins increases, and this can result in violent earthquakes. The heat produced by friction turns the crust into magma (liquid rock). The magma tries to rise to the surface and, if it succeeds, violent volcanic eruptions occur.
7. http://mail.colonial.net/~hkaiter/clipart/ani-cano-gif.gif http://mail.colonial.net/~hkaiter/clipart/ani-cano-gif.gif The pooling of magma in the crust below Mount Vesuvius can gradually build pressure on the rocks above. This inflow is partly due to the colliding African and Eurasian continental plates, which are ever-so-slowly closing the Mediterranean Sea. The rocks can be pushed upward until some part of the structure gives way, at which point hot rock and gases explode from the crater. This was the " Plinian " eruption that destroyed Pompeii in 79 AD. How the eruption was caused Causes
10. It is not known how many people the eruption killed. By 2003 around 1,044 casts made from impressions of bodies in the ash deposits had been recovered in and around Pompeii, with the scattered bones of another 100. The remains of about 332 bodies have been found at Herculaneum (300 in arched vaults discovered in 1980). What percentage these numbers are of the total dead or the percentage of the dead to the total number at risk remain completely unknown. Death rate Effects
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