Mt. Vesuvius towering above the ruins of Pompeii. The volcano’s eruption in 79 C.E. inundated the town. Historical accounts ...
A volcano that has been silent since about 1550 began erupting after a big quake. A radar satellite recorded its lava spreading, twice every 12 days.
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Scientists use Pompeii’s exact eruption date to make volcano dating far more precise
Roman writer Pliny the Younger left behind the only firsthand account of Mount Vesuvius’ ...
Scientists used the precisely recorded 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius to recalibrate argon-argon dating, reducing ...
When Pliny the Younger recorded his first-hand experience of the explosion of Mt. Vesuvius 2,000 years ago — a cataclysm that ...
According to Pliny the Younger, Mount Vesuvius erupted on August 24th, 79 CE. That date is now helping geochronologists ...
NASA and ISRO's NISAR satellite captured months of changes at Russia's Krasheninnikov volcano, revealing lava flows spreading ...
Rare sonar mapping—conducted before and after an undersea volcano erupted off the coast of Tonga in 2022—has uncovered the ...
Multiple volcanic eruptions in Indonesia within a few days of each other in August and September 2026 sparked baseless claims ...
Mount Vesuvius’ famous 79 CE eruption has given scientists a remarkably precise benchmark for dating events deep in Earth’s past. The improved technique could sharpen the timelines of volcanic ...
Images from the NASA-USGS Landsat 8 satellite captured the ash billowing across the Indian Ocean. The eruption disrupted thousands of flights and temporarily shut down eight airports across the two ...
Using Pliny's date for the Vesuvius eruption, geologists made argon-argon dating accurate to within 13 years for a 2,000-year ...
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