Essay On Mount Vesuvius
Volcano chosen: Mount Vesuvius, Italy
Describe the location of the volcano and its physical attributes. (Why is it right there? What does it look like? Stats?)
The reason why Mount Vesuvius is there because there is a window hole in the African tectonic plate and that allow magma to come through to the volcano. The magma is from the African tectonic plate melting. The Eurasian tectonic plates are squeezing the African plate like a pimple witch causes earthquakes. The volcano itself looks like a very sloppy M it seems like the volcano was a lot bigger than what it is now but the middle of it must have washed away in the lava. The last eruption was in 1944 and it was also during the war. The heights of the volcano are 4000 feet high, which …show more content…
The volcano made it seem as if it was raining cats and dogs outside but instead of rain it was rock, ash, and mud. If people did not make it out of their homes, they were going to die even if they made it out of their homes there was still a good chance that they were going to die. There was nowhere to hide when it is raining rocks. The cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were destroyed by pyroclastic flow there was no escaping this. Then the ruins were buried under dozens of feet of tephra.
Describe the environmental impacts of the volcano (describe why and how, not list. For example, what have historic lava flows created? New land? New habitats? How has air/water quality been impacted? Not all of these will be negative!)
The land around this volcano because very great to grow anything on the land because of all the ash that had made the ground so fertile. The water around the volcano became very deadly because of the toxins released when the volcano went off. Then the hydrosphere was also affected because of the tsunamis that had been formed on the second day. There were also pyroclastic floods. The air was greatly affected because of all of the ash and gasses that was put into the air when the volcano popped its
Describe the location of the volcano and its physical attributes. (Why is it right there? What does it look like? Stats?)
The reason why Mount Vesuvius is there because there is a window hole in the African tectonic plate and that allow magma to come through to the volcano. The magma is from the African tectonic plate melting. The Eurasian tectonic plates are squeezing the African plate like a pimple witch causes earthquakes. The volcano itself looks like a very sloppy M it seems like the volcano was a lot bigger than what it is now but the middle of it must have washed away in the lava. The last eruption was in 1944 and it was also during the war. The heights of the volcano are 4000 feet high, which …show more content…
The volcano made it seem as if it was raining cats and dogs outside but instead of rain it was rock, ash, and mud. If people did not make it out of their homes, they were going to die even if they made it out of their homes there was still a good chance that they were going to die. There was nowhere to hide when it is raining rocks. The cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were destroyed by pyroclastic flow there was no escaping this. Then the ruins were buried under dozens of feet of tephra.
Describe the environmental impacts of the volcano (describe why and how, not list. For example, what have historic lava flows created? New land? New habitats? How has air/water quality been impacted? Not all of these will be negative!)
The land around this volcano because very great to grow anything on the land because of all the ash that had made the ground so fertile. The water around the volcano became very deadly because of the toxins released when the volcano went off. Then the hydrosphere was also affected because of the tsunamis that had been formed on the second day. There were also pyroclastic floods. The air was greatly affected because of all of the ash and gasses that was put into the air when the volcano popped its