Eurasian Plate

I. Introduction Mount Vesuvius is the most famous known volcano, possibly of all time. This extremely powerful volcano sits overlooking the ancient city of Pompeii and present day Naples. Its namely recognition is normally dedicated to the eruption in 79 A.D. This eruption was the explosion that destroyed the ancient city of Pompeii in Italy. The last Vesuvius eruption was in 1944 and it is believed that the volcano is due for another eruption in the near future. Vesuvius is the only active…

Italy has an interesting geography that is unique to it. For example, its absolute location is 42 N, 12 E. Italy borders France to the west, Switzerland and Austria to the north, and Slovakia to the east. Italy’s area is 301,340 square kilometers and is slightly larger than Arizona (Italy CIA). Italy has many rivers and the longest of them, the Po, stretches across the northern part of Italy, which is mostly plains. Italy has more than 1,000 bodies of water with many of them are small lakes…

cross-Eurasian trade, tolerated all religions and had the first Mongolian written language created. On the other side of the spectrum he is a villain due to the massacre of thousands of innocent people, his mastering of steppe diplomacy, and aiding the spread of the Bubonic Plaque. Chinggis Khan is viewed by many as a villain due to history, focusing on his devilish acts and not on his good deeds. First off, through his conquests of Persia, China, and Central Asia, Khan made it so Eurasian…

breakdown of a former and initially much higher arrangement. The height of the main cone has been continually changed by eruptions but was 4,203 feet in 2010. Vesuvius is a stratovolcano at the convergent boundary where the African Plate is being subducted below the Eurasian Plate. Mount Vesuvius is observed as one of the most hazardous volcanoes in the world because of the population of 3,000,000 people living nearby and its violent tendency. Mount Vesuvius might be most known for its eruption…

its previous eruptions. With so many eruptions, Vesuvius was bound to be categorized as a complex volcano, which means it has 2 or more vents. The reason why Vesuvius erupted on Pompeii, and still active, is because the African Plate is subducting under the Eurasian Plate. This causes buildup and pressure under the Volcano and the only way for the pressure to escape is through the vents, resulting in an eruption. According to Pliny the Younger’s writings we know a lot about what happened to…

on the ring of fire, which is somewhat rare. Mount Vesuvius in located on the continent of Europe and in the country of Italy. Its geographical coordinates are North 40 degrees and East 14 degrees. The tectonic plates below Mount Vesuvius are the Eurasian and African Plates. The plates that have interacted to form this volcano are convergent. It is still an active volcano and in the past the eruptions have been very explosive and damaging. In 79 A.D. the city of Pompeii was destroyed by the…

The Eruption Of Mount Vesuvius In 79 A.D. One of the most well known ancient volcanic eruptions in European history is the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. This catastrophic eruption took place in southern Italy, and completely devastated the prosperous Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, killing thousands of people. What was most memorable about this infamous disaster was how Pompeii and Herculaneum became frozen in time from the Volcano’s eruption. The cities and their inhabitants…

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Vesuvius is a Stratovolcano also known as a composite volcano. Stratovolcanoes are also called composite as they are made of built up of alternating layers of lava flow, ash and blocks of unmelted stone. Stratovolcanoes form above the subduction zone at plate boundaries. They are known for erupting with great violence. They are larger than cinder cones nd result from a conduit system; vents lead from magma reservoir. When stratovolcanoes are dormant, like Mt Vesuvius, they have steep sides which…

Volcanoes Volcanoes are magnificent yet dangerous structures created by the forces of nature when Earth’s tectonic plates diverge and collide against each other letting the Earth vent out pent up gases, magma, rock, and ash. There are three types of volcanoes called Shield, Stratovolcanoes, and Cinder cones. Volcanoes are further labeled as active, dormant, or extinct depending on recent activity. The magma underneath the Earth’s mantle is responsible for the explosion and creation of volcanoes…