ARTH 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Spyridon Marinatos, Minoan Eruption, Plinian Eruption
19 Oct 2017
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Stages of the eruption: reasoning is to come to some understanding of the cultural effect. Up to 60 mm of ash and pumice. Pliny the younger > vesuvius 79 ad vei 5. Of cer 0f the government and also one in command for misenum. Tried to takes ships to shore to rescue people. Although every stage he made observations of what was happening during the eruption. Label this a plinian because of pliny who explained everything that happened. These small eruptions that prompted people to leave. Then the longer the more people will come back thinking its passed. Krakatoa=200 megatons of tnt (hiroshima atomic bomb= 20kilotons tnt) Thera = over 35 km high (stratosphere 61km of debris. While it settles back down to earth stage 3: caladaic collapse. Egypt 10 biblical plagues ? (exoduc 7. 14-12. 36) China severe climate events oods, then drought and famine. To explain the end of the minoans rst excavated akrotiri in 1967.
