I mean, fossils exist. I don’t think it’s completely out of the bounds of semi-informed imagination to figure something similar may happen with the intense heat and heavy debris of pyroclastic flow. You get told dead thing + heat + pressure + time = rock, and all 4 of those were involved to some extent, so it’s not completely out of the blue.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
These aren’t petrified bodies.
Wait… Do people think that if you’re covered in hot, you turn to stone???
Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago Yes, 100%. I did too as a child when first learning about Pompeii.
I think it wasn’t until after I left highschool I finally read more into the “human civilization” part (I was more interested in the geology of it all as a kid)
I’m sure if I asked a few friends, they’d be surprised to find out those are plaster and not petrified bodies.
Cherry@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
I hadn’t really thought about it but yes that kinda was it. I am feeling like a right dimwit lately.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Well what else would happen???
- Covered in hot = turned to stone
- Covered in cold = turned to ice
- Covered in water = turned to coral
- Covered in stone = turned to water
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago The classic four elements of turning. Basic science.
snooggums@piefed.world 4 weeks ago
I honestly thought the ash filled in the gaps when the bodies burned away and solidified kind of like fossilization but way faster. This is the first I’ve heard about plaster casts.