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Mercato eruption

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Mercato eruption
VolcanoMount Vesuvius
Date6940 BCE ± 100 years[1]
TypePlinian eruption
LocationCampania, Italy
VEI5 or 6[1][2]

The Mercato eruption (Pomici di Mercato) of Mount Vesuvius was a Plinian eruption that occurred around 8,010 ± 40 14C yr BP (8,890 ± 90 cal yr BP).[3] The Global Volcanism Program claims that the eruption had a Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) of 5,[1] while Zanella et al. (2014) estimate it had a VEI of 6.[2] The eruption was preceded by 7000 years of rest and followed by about 4000 years of rest.[4]

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  1. ^ a b c "Vesuvius". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
  2. ^ a b Elena Zanella; Roberto Sulpizio; Lucia Gurioli; Roberto Lanza (2015). "Temperatures of the pyroclastic density currents deposits emplaced in the last 22 kyr at Somma–Vesuvius (Italy)". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 396 (1): 13–33. Bibcode:2015GSLSP.396...13Z. doi:10.1144/SP396.4. hdl:2318/145279. S2CID 129969700.
  3. ^ Andronico D, Calderoni G, Cioni R, Sbrana A, Sulpizio R, Santacroce R (1995). "Geological map of Somma-Vesuvius volcano". Period Mineral. 64: 77–78.
  4. ^ Aulinas, M.; Civetta, L.; Di Vito, M. A.; Orsi, G.; Gimeno, D.; Férnandez-Turiel, J. L. (20 November 2007). "The "Pomici di mercato" Plinian eruption of Somma-Vesuvius: magma chamber processes and eruption dynamics". Bulletin of Volcanology. 70 (7): 825–840. doi:10.1007/s00445-007-0172-z. S2CID 128505462.
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