Posted on 06/18/2010 5:51:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Acronym FAIL.
They could have explained a density current. Just use the words and tell us it's also known as surges and flows. Why dumb down everything?
Interesting. Evidently extreme heat caused all the fatalities in Pompeii as well as Herculaneum, which is not what was previously believed.
Maybe, instead of worrying about dropping a nuke into the BP Oil well leak, we should just drop nukes into volcanoes, and eliminate all that nasty CO2.
And the cost per volcano is very cheap compared to what it would take to put one 15,000 feet under the ocean floor.
Since no one could then parachute into a live volcano, it would save lives.
Gives meaning to the phrase "We're toast!"
It was the Doctor who caused Vesuvius to blow!
Fires of Pompeii trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AKjx_amhZw
I’ll take note of that.
WOW.
THX.
Thanks for the ping. This study says that extreme heat killed people somewhat beyond the area covered by the pyroclastic flow. That makes sense. But I think a lot of people were smothered by falling ashes in areas that were not covered by the pyroclastic flow.
Of course! The blowdown from the caldera would have obscured the dacite coronal polymorphic schist protruberances. The density current would have been indirectly proportional to the diatreme. The ejecta would have been preceded by fumarolic activity similar to that of the Eocene.
Calling Dr. Obvious.
The original shake and bake. ;’)
LOL!
And wear clean underwear.
Since he has that time machine, he’s SOL when it comes to having an alibi for anything that’s ever happened. No wonder he moves around a lot and has plastic surgery to change his appearence every so often.
INDEED.
When there’s a threat of becoming toast, it’s a good idea to spread out, or butter yet, to crust get out of town.
Oh sure, just traipse on in and wreck everything. ;’)
In Herculaneum, I believe the only human remains ever found were carbonized bones. Since the pyroclastic flows came straight down onto the town, assuming most didn’t just get out when the quakes started, the heat may have just vaporized most of the victims. I’d like to go sometime, particularly to H to places off-limits to tourists. There are doors still on working hinges, one of the gymnasiums still has the sporting equipment in orderly stacks on the floor (a yearly athletic contest was under way when the mountain blew its stack), upper storeys are preserved...
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