While Pompeii and its inhabitants were buried by ash, very little remains of neighbouring Herculaneum. Evidence suggests they were incinerated by a rare kind of pyroclastic flow.
The article is a bit repetitive, but such is the ways when you have a word count to adhere to.
Divine Angel said:
While Pompeii and its inhabitants were buried by ash, very little remains of neighbouring Herculaneum. Evidence suggests they were incinerated by a rare kind of pyroclastic flow.The article is a bit repetitive, but such is the ways when you have a word count to adhere to.
Visited Herculaneum in 2014. I’ll read the article with interest.
Not impressed by the stuff at the bottom of the page though:
“Fear of AI is this century’s overpopulation scare
Is Eliezer Yudkowsky the same false prophet that Paul Ehrlich was?”
MV (I think this is a question for you)…how is this “pyroclastic density current” different from a pyroclastic flow?
buffy said:
MV (I think this is a question for you)…how is this “pyroclastic density current” different from a pyroclastic flow?
It’s not. “Dilute pyroclastic density currents” are one form of these base-surge pyroclastic flows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroclastic_flow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroclastic_surge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignimbrite
Michael V said:
buffy said:
MV (I think this is a question for you)…how is this “pyroclastic density current” different from a pyroclastic flow?
It’s not. “Dilute pyroclastic density currents” are one form of these base-surge pyroclastic flows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroclastic_flow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroclastic_surge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignimbrite
Thank you.
I’ve seen a documentary or two about Herculaneum.
At first, no bodies were found. But later, it was discovered that the residents had all fled down towards the coast, and now several (I don’t know how many) bodies have been found buried in deeper parts of the excavation near the coast.
By the way.
Pompeii and Herculaneum are now INNER suburbs of Naples. Pozzulo, also heavily affected by an earlier eruption of Vesuvius, is on the opposite side of Naples city centre to the volcano. AFAIK, Naples is the second potentially deadliest city for death by volcano. The largest evacuation route from Naples city centre takes you closer to the volcano before turning off north.
The most deadly volcano risk is in South America, somewhere.
Wooden cupboard from Herculaneum.
Various pieces of wooden furniture were retrieved from this doomed city. Partial carbonisation by scalding ash etc during the eruption helped preserve it from burning up completely, by sealing it from oxygen. Pompeii preserved fewer wooden remains.
Bubblecar said:
Wooden cupboard from Herculaneum.Various pieces of wooden furniture were retrieved from this doomed city. Partial carbonisation by scalding ash etc during the eruption helped preserve it from burning up completely, by sealing it from oxygen. Pompeii preserved fewer wooden remains.
A small wooden table and a cradle from Herculaneum.
Detail of a lararium (small shrine for the household gods) from the House of the Wooden Shrine, Herculaneum,1st century AD. Size: 163 × 73cm
