Mt. Vesuvius Research Paper

The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius was 2000 years ago on April 24th, year of 79. The eruption devastated many cities and villages. One of the cities included Pompeii a town in Italy. In this Time the Roman Empire was in rule in the area. The eruption happened when earthquakes released clouds of smoke and ash that burnt the surroundings the Pyroclastics missed the town fortunately. Then a wave of lava from the magma chamber bursted from the volcano's mouth. The lava traveled at rapid speed. ~Armeet Chhina

“Come on we can’t be afraid of no pebbles we are gladiator-” then he gets hit by a huge chunk of coal. I chose this quote because it shows how powerful this volcano is. The Volcanic ash that erupted from the mouth of the stratovolcano condensed into pebbles of ash, and chunks of coal from the volcano. At that time the lava with high viscosity had not erupted yet. The VEI of the volcano on the convergent boundary between the African and Eurasian plate is 7 on the scale. ~Armeet Chhina

People in Pompeii had no idea what was going on because there was no word in latin for volcano and they thought that Mt. Vesuvius was just a mountain and they didn’t know that Mt. Vesuvius was a volcano. the people in
Mount Vesuvius ejected molten rock and pulverized pumice at a rate of 1.5 billion tons per second. Mount Vesuvius is a Stratovolcano also known as a Composite Volcano.The lava flowing from a Stratovolcanoes typically cools and hardens before spreading far due to high viscosity.The magma forming this lava is felsic. Mount Vesuvius is 4,190 feet tall. Composite volcanoes are composed of a mix of layers of the lava flows, volcanic ash and cinders. Ten percent of people who lived in pompeii were buried in ash. The Pyroclastic Materials are clouds of ash and pumice fragments and superheated