forms when lava is very quickly cooled, for example, where it enters into water,” Giordano added. However, the pyroclastic flows, composed of fast-moving volcanic material and toxic gas, that charged ...

Even though Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago ... two people who didn't die from the choking air or searing hot lava flows, but instead might be the first two ever found who died ...

Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by Vesuvius's eruption in 79 CE.

A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius produced such a hot ... the individual was heated solely by the pyroclastic flows – avalanches containing lava pieces, ash and hot gases – which buried Pompeii ...

World History Archive/Alamy Supported by By Franz Lidz When Mount Vesuvius erupted ... volcanic particles — ash, pumice lava fragments and gas — that flow according to their density in ...

A HUNK of dark-coloured glass found inside the skull of an individual who died during the Mount ... flow plunged onto the town. Pyroclastic flow is the plume of hot gas and lava fragments coughed ...

A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount ... the flow arrived. The "only possible scenario" was that an ash cloud emitted by Vesuvius ...

However, in 2020, researchers discovered a black, glassy substance inside the skull of a person killed during the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius ... forms when lava is very quickly cooled ...