> > From: Jostein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/07/15 Fri AM 10:44:30 GMT > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Subject: Re: OT - pyroclastic flows (was Re: PESO - Herding Livestock) > > I wrote: > >> Does anyone know if they've uncovered the villages on Montserrat > >> after > >> the eruptions in the nineties? > > From: "mike wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I remember seeing some aerial pictures in the last three months or > > so that suggest not. Can't remember the URL. > > Google is my friend. I'll see what I can find. > > The question popped up in the family recently, when Simen suddenly > asked questions about how Pompeii could have been buried so quickly. I > fired up NASA's WorldWind program and showed him a LandSat 7 photo of > Montserrat, while explaining the concept of pyroclastic flows for him. > On NASAs photo, the flows from the volcano covers almost a third of > the island, but I don't know how old the image is. It must have taken > NASA some years to collect enough detail shots to display the whole > globe without obstructive clouds.
IIRC some of the volcanic deposit single layers in Pompei are 10m thick. there is also some film of pyroclastic flow at Montserrat available in the Web. ----------------------------------------- Email provided by http://www.ntlhome.com/
