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Mind Map by janmart.tenedora, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by janmart.tenedora
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Eruption
- Pliny the younger
- Only first person account
- exaggerated
- "bits of pumice"
- "ashes mixed with pumice stones"
- "blacker and denser than night ever is"
- "breathing was impeded by the dense fumes"
- Only first person account
- Interpretation of physical remains
- 'pugilist pose'
- indicates exposure to
intense heat
- indicates exposure to
intense heat
- 'pugilist pose'
- First Stage
- Cloud of ash and pumice
- showered down onto
Pompeii
- Heavy weight of the
deposits
- Heavy weight of the
deposits
- showered down onto
Pompeii
- Cloud of ash and pumice
- Second Stage
- Series of pyroclastic surges
- avalanches of hot ash, poisonous
gases and molten rock
- Haraldur Sirgudsson suggests
- separated into two surges
- separated into two surges
- stages 1-2 dissipated before
reaching Pompeii
- 3rd stage, widespread preservation
- 3rd stage, widespread preservation
- avalanches of hot ash, poisonous
gases and molten rock
- Series of pyroclastic surges
- Estelle Lazer suggests
- causes of death
- asphyxiation
- thermal shock, hence
'pugilist pose'
- Concussion from projectiles
- shown from breaks and
bone fractures
- shown from breaks and
bone fractures
- asphyxiation
- causes of death
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