Comment on checkmate, big geology!!
Rinox@feddit.it 1 month agoExcept Vesuvius, which looks like a volcano, but in 79CE erupted violently sending lave, magma and molten rocks several kilometers away, exactly like the stuffy nose you described. It completely destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, burying them for thousands of years.
Still nothing when compared to the destruction that the “Campi Flegrei” brought 37’000 years ago, completely burying a huge section of the Campanian coastline.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Super cool!!
Aain I love how it looks like a drunk geologist made a scribble on a map and said before passing out “that Campi Flegrei, that’s a BIG one right there!” and you are just left looking at the map being like… what… are you sure that just looks like you randomly circled a huge part of the landscape…?
Rinox@feddit.it 1 month ago
Yeah, it pretty much blew out that whole section of coastline, that big hole is called a “caldera”. It’s still active btw, you can go and check it out if you want. Look for Solfatara di Pozzuoli.
You can also look at the Greek island of Santorini, where the whole western and central part of the island was blown off during the bronze age iirc. Historians speculate the eruption, earthquake and tsunamis caused by the event could have partially influenced the collapse of the Minoan civilization, the rise of the Mycenaeans, turmoil in Egypt and possibly even the fall of the Chinese empire due to a global winter. Crazy stuff
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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Are we just a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists sitting in dark rooms with a computer and pinboard, complete with strings between pinned mugshots of lava domes and dikes, muttering to ourselves as we circle vaguely roundish things on maps in red ink and exclaim “ANOTHER!!!”.
No, we walk around out side in the middle of the woods doing it.