1. MT.VESUVIUS

2. LOCATION MT. VESUVIUS IS LOCATED IN VESUVIUS,ITALY
MT.VESUVIUS’ ELEVATION IS 4,200 FEET

3. CREATION
MT. VESUVIUS WAS CREATED BY THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOMMA RIM 17,000 YEARS AGO

4. 79 A.D.
THE ERUPTION IN 79 A.D. SENT 10 FEET OF TEPHRITE FALLING ON TO THE TOWN OF POMPEII.

5. THIS IS A PICTURE OF THE MOLD OF A DOG THAT WAS CHAINED TO A POLE AT THE TIME OF THE ERUPTION.

6. DEATHS 3,360 PEOPLE DIED IN THE ERUPTION OF 79 A.D.
IN THE PICTURE ARE SKELETONS OF PEOPLE WHO TRIED TO HIDE FROM THE ASH

7. TYPE
MT. VESUVIUS IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND IS A STRATOVOLCANO

8. ROCK THE ROCK FOUND ON MT.VESUVIUS IS TEPHRITE, A BASALTIC ROCK.
THE OLDEST ROCK FOUND AT VESUVIUS IS 300,000 YEARS OLD.

9. ERUPTION
MT. VESUVIUS IS A COMPOSITE VOLCANO AND HAS PYROCLASTIC FLOWS

10. Composite Volcano
The Somma-Vesuvius volcanic complex is a central composite volcano formed by and older stratovolcano (Monte Somma) with a summit caldera partially filled by the composite cone of Vesuvius.

11. Location
Herculaneum was buried under 75 feet (23 m) of ash deposited by a pyroclastic flow. This photo shows buildings that were near the waterfront.

12. eruptions
Vesuvius has continued its activity intermittently ever since A.D.79 with numerous minor eruptions and several major eruptions occurring in 1631, 1794, 1872, 1906, and in 1944 in the midst of the Italian campaign of World War II. ...

13. Other Info
In a "Vesuvian" eruption, as typified by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D.79, great quantities of ash-laden gas are violently discharged to form a cauliflower- shaped cloud high above the volcano.

14. BIBLIOGRAPHY YAHOO.COM VOLCANO WORLD VOLCANOES.COM GOOGLE.COM

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