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- Plinian eruptions or Vesuvian eruptions are volcanic eruptions marked by their similarity to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which destro****...
- types are Pelean eruptions, followed by Plinian eruptions; the strongest eruptions are called Ultra-Plinian. Subglacial and phreatic eruptions are defined...
- Plinian Core is a set of vocabulary terms that can be used to describe different aspects of biological species information. Under "biological species...
- the past 200,000 years in Europe. The eruption started with an intense Plinian phase, succeeded by a sequence of voluminous pyroclastic density currents...
- world. Eruptions tend to be violent and explosive; these are known as Plinian eruptions. Vesuvius has a long historic and literary tradition. It was...
- The Plinian Society was a club at the University of Edinburgh for students interested in natural history. It was founded in 1823. Several of its members...
- least 10 eruptions of VEI-7 in the last 11,700 years. There are also 58 Plinian eruptions, and 13 caldera-forming eruptions, of large, but unknown magnitudes...
- same time, a Plinian dispersal of 8.8 km3 of rhyolitic tephra occurred depositing layers A and B. Episode II consisted of a second Plinian dispersal, but...
- in two phases, Vesuvian and Pelean, which alternated six times. A first Plinian phase projected a column of volcanic debris and hot gases between 15 km...
- officer, as was the custom for young men of equestrian rank. Ronald Syme, Plinian scholar, reconstructs three periods at three ranks. Pliny's interest in...