The lava flow of Vesuvius

Below Foss della Vetrana flow again divided, one up his sleeve rushed to Mass. and San Sebastiano and partially destroyed these towns, the other went to the San Dzhordzho and Kre-mano, but did not reach him. It was curious to watch the monastery, was moving among the gardens, tree, catch it, flickering up and burned. From the main crater rose a huge cloud, at first it was very white and consisted of pure water vapor, but gradually grew darker and darker: the huge mass of finely divided material flew with him. In Naples, the ash began to fall and soon fell asleep cone of Vesuvius: mountain climbing has become difficult due to its flowability of new slopes. Eruption in 1872 remarkable in two respects: a terrible explosion of volcanic activity emerged almost overnight, but soon calmed down, after 24 hours after the crash lava stopped translate into atrio, the clouds dissipated, ash rain stopped. Despite the short duration of the eruption, the mountain has undergone significant changes, they studied quite accurately, thanks to a fluke. Swiss geologist Professor. Game of Zurich, made accurate drawings of Mount Vesuvius in a few days before the accident; after the eruption, he made shots from the same places. From the Naples summit seemed so long equally rounded on all sides, and now it has been cut obliquely mentioned above Bocca on the outer side has disappeared from the atrio was visible crack formed during the night of 25 th (for photographs Sommer) on April 26 ziyavshaya in the form of a deep precipice, the edge of the crater at a considerable distance collapsed and the crater itself has expanded. After this great eruption of Vesuvius was quiet until December 18, 1875. From then began a period of continuous but mild activity: Lava implies weak, and only sometimes occur more significant explosion. On behalf of one of Italian volcanoes, such activities are called Strom bolianskoy. Large crater gradually filled slag, ash, lava. Images 147 - 150, depicting him in 1880 and 1882, illustrate how in a relatively short time, there was a gradual filling of the crater.