Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Eruption
- Pliny the younger
- Only first person account
- exaggerated
- "bits of pumice"
- "ashes mixed with pumice stones"
- "blacker and denser than night ever is"
- "breathing was impeded by the dense fumes"
- Interpretation of physical remains
- 'pugilist pose'
- indicates exposure to
intense heat
- First Stage
- Cloud of ash and pumice
- showered down onto
Pompeii
- Heavy weight of the
deposits
- Second Stage
- Series of pyroclastic surges
- avalanches of hot ash, poisonous
gases and molten rock
- Haraldur Sirgudsson suggests
- separated into two surges
- stages 1-2 dissipated before
reaching Pompeii
- 3rd stage, widespread preservation
- Estelle Lazer suggests
- causes of death
- asphyxiation
- thermal shock, hence
'pugilist pose'
- Concussion from projectiles
- shown from breaks and
bone fractures