This man’s brain turned to glass 2,000 years ago—scientists think they know why
Nearly 2,000 years ago, a young man lay in his bed in Herculaneum, unaware that he was about to become part of history in one ...
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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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 ...