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Please pick up a packet and quietly listen to the music! . 8/24/79. Pompeii. And then all was quiet. . While you were listening, we tapped into your brains to see what you envisioned and produce a movie!. How would it feel if that really happened today?. What would you do?

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  1. Please pick up a packet and quietly listen to the music! 8/24/79 Pompeii

  2. And then all was quiet.

  3. While you were listening, we tapped into your brains to see what you envisioned and produce a movie!

  4. How would it feel if that really happened today? What would you do? Where would you go? Was my volcano like Mt Vesuvius?

  5. Pliny the Younger • Pliny was across the bay when Mt Vesuvius exploded. • He wrote a letter describing the volcano. • The eruption that Mt Vesuvius has is called a plinian . • Key characteristics are ejection of large amount of pumice and very powerful continuous gas blasts.

  6. Pompeii was forgotten • The ash and pumice buried the city and the people along with it. • It was buried under about 13 feet! • This is taller than two people combined!

  7. 1594: • About 1500 years later, Pompeii was finally discovered. • It was discovered through the building of an aqueduct! • Nothing was done to the city, it was left for another 200 years!

  8. Other towns buried

  9. Herculaneum • Was also a town that was buried. • In 1710, a nobleman was digging and found marble. • He hit the jackpot and the treasure hunt began. • Herculaneum was robbed of its valued possessions.

  10. 1748 • People remembered earlier discoveries and started digging out Pompeii! • GuiseppeFiorelli was in charge of excavations at Pompeii and did an excellent job. • He took detailed entries of roads and houses. He also listed the site were an object was found.

  11. What Fiorelli was most famous for was his body castings

  12. When the ash covered the bodies in Pompeii, it hardened around them. The flesh and clothing decayed leaving only the bones. But every detail of the body was still imprinted in the ash!

  13. Casting the imprints • Fiorelli would pump plaster into the imprints and let dry. • They would then chip around the plaster and excavate the body. • This gave information about how people had died in the eruption, what they were doing in their final moments and what sort of clothing they wore.

  14. It actually helped us understand how people of Pompeii lived. The paintings on the wall showed us their entertainment. The discovery of public baths and plumbing taught us about their sanitation. Why would this be important?

  15. Mt Vesuvius: Today

  16. Take 5 • Right now it is the year 1549. • You are building an aquaduct and have found some of the remains of Pompeii. • What would you do? • Leave it be or start digging away to see what you find. • If you start digging, explain what you find! • If you leave it, explain how you feel when Fiorelli starts digging it up!

  17. Pompeii today

  18. Does this still happen today? Does anyone know what is going on in the world? YES! Olympics, War, Eruptions?

  19. Mt Kelud in Indonesia 2/14/14 • The ash and debris that Indonesia's Mount Kelud blasted from its belly brought death and misery, and disrupted international air traffic. But for many of the millions of people cleaning up Saturday in the wake of the explosive eruption, it was also a money earner and a shot of life for their crops.

  20. "This is a blessing of the disaster," said Imam Choiri, a 55-year-old farmer who was scraping up the ash from the road to use as fertilizer on his small vegetable plot a few kilometers from the crater of the mountain, which was rumbling and smoking in the background. Choiri said locals believe the ash helps drive away pests from crops. The eruption of the 1,731-meter (5,680-foot) -high mountain on Java island late Thursday was one of the most dramatic to hit Indonesia in recent years, with ash falling as far as 370 miles away. Three people were killed when their roofs caved in under the weight of ash, while around 100,000 fled.

  21. On Saturday, scientists said Kelud's activities were dying down, in line with its reputation as a mountain that blows its top dramatically but then quickly settles down for another 10 years or so. But authorities warned that water from its crater, along with rain, could bring deadly landslides of fresh ash and rocks down river beds into villages and valleys. Army troops enforced a ban on people returning to houses within 6 miles of the volcano, but many people snuck back to check on livestock and clean up. Authorities were finding it hard to prevent people from returning, given the money farmers stand to lose by staying away.

  22. Kelud's last major eruption was in 1990, when it spewed out searing fumes and lava that killed more than 30 people and injured hundreds. In 1919, a powerful explosion that reportedly could be heard hundreds of kilometers away killed at least 5,160 people. Indonesia is prone to volcanic eruptions and earthquakes because of its location on the Pacific "Ring of Fire" — a series of fault lines stretching from the Western Hemisphere through Japan and Southeast Asia.

  23. Volcanic ash and debris are prized in the building industry because they make especially strong cement, and sand diggers can charge almost twice as much per load than they can for regular sand. Scores of diggers were collecting the fresh, easy-to-dig sand Saturday, packing the windfall into bags or onto trucks.

  24. Mt Kelud Pictures

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