CLASSICS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Mount Vesuvius, Pyroclastic Flow, Miseno
13 May 2016
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Was found in the bay of naples. Naples was a very greek bilingual city. Picture: detailes of reliefs w. earthquake of february 5, 62 ad. Picture: pliny th younger, eyewirness and survivor of the eruption. He was in misenum and he saw the eruption. Phase 1: arifall phase, beginning at 12:00 noon. A lot of material coming out in different proportions, the wind was critical to pompeii because it lay in the path. Accumulation of ash and pumice to ca. Most of pompeii"s population fled during this phase. People did not know it was going to be a big eruption because they thought it would be a regular eruption. A nuee ardente this is glowing cloud, a hot avalanche of ash & gas. Two distance parts to a nuee ardente: ground surge," a ring shaped cloud of gas and suspended rock fragments which moves radially outward at high velocity from base of an eruption.
