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Pompeii's destruction helps calibrate volcanic dating to within decades
Source: Phys.org · Published
When Pliny the Younger recorded his firsthand experience of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago—a cataclysm that buried Pompeii and killed his uncle, Pliny the Elder—he provided enough…
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