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Mt.Vesuvius - HomeThis mountain has erupted more than 50 times since the eruption in 79 A.D. when it buried the people of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The picture to the left shows Mount Vesuvius as seen from the recently excavated ruins of Pompeii. Vesuvius is about 5 miles away. Try to imagine huge thick layer of gray-black clouds like those at Mount St. Helens rushing toward you at a hundred miles an hour. That eruption was called a plinian explosion. This means that when extremely gas-rich, viscous magma explodes deep...
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