A Vesuvius Victim’s Brain Turned into Glass, and Scientists Think They Know How
The Herculaneum resident, killed by the volcanic eruption in 79 CE, presents the only known vitrified brain on Earth. Now, ...
How Vesuvius turned this man’s brain to glass: Scientists unravel a 2,000-year-old mystery
A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his ...
朝日新聞社3 年
Kagoshima blast 30,000 years ago dumped ash in Tokyo
The pyroclastic flow and volcanic ash spewed out by the Aira caldera in southern Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyushu was 1.5 times larger than previous research estimates and reached a depth of about ...
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What Earth would look like if Yellowstone's supervolcano erupted
While the blast would kill thousands and send rivers of molten lava pouring up to 40 miles (64km) from the eruption site, ...
Daily Mail8 天
Revealed: What life on Earth would look like if Yellowstone's supervolcano erupted
Professor Mather points out that supervolcanoes seem to put out a greater proportion of their ejected material as pyroclastic flows. For parts of North America which survived the initial blast ...
朝日新聞社2 年
Study: Ancient Mt. Aso eruption caused longest pyroclastic flow
YAMAGUCHI—An eruption of Mount Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture 90,000 years ago created a pyroclastic flow that traveled 170 kilometers north to the Sabagawa river here, the longest such distance ...