While you might first think the odd event happened because of the heat of the lava flows that accompanied Vesuvius' eruption, the researchers say they couldn't have been hot enough to cause the ...

They still can’t agree on the day Vesuvius blew its top ... mixtures of volcanic particles — ash, pumice lava fragments and gas — that flow according to their density in relation to the ...

CIT captures the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in breathtaking detail with its new Cook Islands $20 “Lost City – ...

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

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.

“Obsidian glass, that is a volcanic glass, forms when lava is very ... the pyroclastic flows, composed of fast-moving volcanic material and toxic gas, that charged out of Vesuvius and buried ...

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

It is usually caused by meteorites, lightning or lava ... had to happen before the flow arrived. The "only possible scenario" was that an ash cloud emitted by Vesuvius delivered an initial ...