the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD
Stato: Mali Anno: 1999 Notizie: The most famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy took place in 79 A.D. This eruption buried the towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii. The sheet shows the lava inundating Herculaneum. Vesuvius is paired with the Chinguetti meteorite which was found in Mauritania in 1920. Chinguetti is a stony-iron mesosiderite. A Bedouin showed two French legionaires the location of a supposed giant meteorite as big as a house. Unfortunately the desert sands covered the meteorite. It remained lost until recently, when it was found again and determined to be just a large natural hematite formation. The meteorite fragments found nearby were unrelated to this formation. |
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