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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Except Vesuvius, which looks like a volcano, but in 79CE erupted violently sending lave, magma and molten rocks several kilometers away, exactly like the stuffy nose you described. It completely destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, burying them for thousands of years.

Still nothing when compared to the destruction that the "Campi Flegrei" volcano brought 37'000 years ago, completely burying a huge section of the Campanian coastline.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Super cool!!

Aain I love how it looks like a drunk geologist made a big scribble on a map and said before passing out "that Campi Flegrei, that's a BIG one right there!" and you are just left looking at the map being like... what.. are you sure that just looks like you randomly circled a huge part of the landscape?....like... really the whole bay?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it pretty much blew out that whole section of coastline, that big hole is called a "caldera". It's still active btw, you can go and check it out if you want. Look for Solfatara di Pozzuoli.

You can also look at the Greek island of Santorini, where the whole western and central part of the island was blown off during the bronze age iirc. Historians speculate the eruption, earthquake and tsunamis caused by the event could have partially influenced the collapse of the Minoan civilization, the rise of the Mycenaeans, turmoil in Egypt and possibly even the fall of the Chinese empire due to a global winter. Crazy stuff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Are we just a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists sitting in dark rooms with a computer and pinboard against the wall, complete with strings between posted mugshots of lava domes and dikes, muttering to ourselves as we circle vaguely roundish things on a map in red ink and exclaim “ANOTHER!!!” ??

No, we are usually in the middle of nowhere in the woods hiking erratically across the landscape with nobody around so we tend to shout at things more than mutter because why not.