Mt.+Vesuvius

 Mt. Vesuvius type of volcano: Stratovolcano, also known as a composit volcano sea level- 4,203 feet above sea level when was it discovered?- 34 A.D Dates of eruptions- 79 A.D, 1800 B.C, 172 A.D, 203 A.D, 222 A.D, 303 A.D, 379 A.D, 472 A.D, 512 A.D, 536 A.D, 685 A.D, 787 A.D, 860 A.D, 900 A.D, 968 A.D, 991 A.D, 999 A.D, 1006 A.D, 1049 A.D, 1073 A.D, 1139 A.D, 1150 A.D, 1270 A.D, 1347 A.D, 1500 A.D, 1906 A.D, 1929 A.D, and 1944 A.D positive effects of mt. Vesuvius- it made the soil very fertile negative effects - death,disturbed traveling planes day 1/4/11 resaerch about Link #1- []

Link #2- [] What's written on some of the ancient scrolls buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in Italy in A.D. 79 is still a mystery, despite the best efforts of the director of MRI and radiology at Kadlec Medical Center in Richland. Dr. Edward Luliano wasn't able to decipher what they say using various scanning technologies, but the results let him hope for that may be a possibillity in the future. The extremely fragile papyrus scrolls make up the only surviving library from antiquity. Luliano preformed scans this week on scroll fragments using magnetic mammography unit, which both use X-ray technology. Tests reveal the chemical composition of the link also were done at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland. Those test results aren't back yet. Luliano has been working with a University of Kentucky professor who's developing ways to virtually unwrap and decipher such ancient texts without handling them. Luliano plans to publish an academic article on the scans and said he wants to keep working on deciphering the scrolls.

Link #3- [] Within 20km (12 miles) of it crater live almost three million people and everyone of them, say the geologists, is at risk. Their evidence comes from research, now completed, which shows that 4,000 years ago Vesuvius erupted with such ferocity that huge areas of land around the volcano were uninhabitable for decades. Geologist say the evidence that has been uncovered since 2001 should have encourages Italian authorities to change the evacuation plan they are rehearsing. Mr. Mastorlorenzo and his team took BBC News to a disused quarry not far from Naples where they have been busy collecting samples. It is the deposit of a Sonte Age eruptionm a cataclysmic, Plinian eruption, much bigger than the type that destroyed Pompeii in 79AD. When the volcano exploded, it sent a cloud of superheated dust and ash high into the stratosphere, which eventually collapsed over a radius of 25km (15 miles). Guido Betolaso is the head of vicil protection and in the past few months his team has been practising with residents and local authorities the evacuation routine. But experts say the evacuation plan should include Naples, and they believe people in the city are not prepared for what would unfold. But the dilemma that would face those implementing the plan is when to start their evacuation. In San Sebastiano, a town that was partially destroyed in 1944 by the lava from the last eruption, one elderly resident, Giuseppe, told BBC News he believed he would have plenty of time to go. But there will be no quick return if Vesuvius erupts as it did 4,000 years ago. When this next explosive, Plinian eruption comes this will not just be Campania and Italy's problem, it will be Europe's as well.