I'm a college student looking for information on Vesuvius relating
directly to geology and Pompeii. Please send any info to me.
thank you much.. oh P.S is there anywhere online I could get the National
Geographic research article on vesuvius? Thanks. Shannon
Shannon
Hi Shannon,
Pompeii must be a popular place--yours is the second question about it in
the past couple of days. I will start out by sending you the (somewhat
unsatisfying) answer that I sent to that one:
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Sorry for the delay in answering your question. You asked a hard one and I
don't really know the answer. I have asked a couple of folks here at the
University of Hawai'i who have worked at Vesuvius and they don't seem to know
either. As far as I can tell the human bodies were not really preserved.
Instead they were incased in volcanic ash and/or mud which then
hardened. The bodies decayed away but left spaces behind in the
now-hardened ash. What we see there today are plaster casts that were
made from these voids.
I haven't really answered your question but I'm still looking for the
answer. I did try to do an internet search on Pompeii, and there were
100 home pages that deal with Pompeii in some way or another. You might
want to go web-surfing yourself and see what you come up with.
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I did a net search on "National Geographic" I came up with lots of videos
to buy, but nothing on their research magazine. Perhaps it would be best
to go find a copy of the regular National Geographic magazine and find an
address to inquire to in there.
Sorry that doesn't help too much.
Sincerely,
Scott Rowland
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