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Q: What happened to the tectonic plates when vesuvius erupted?
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Which tectonic plates made mt vesuvius erupt in ad79?

Mount Vesuvius is the result of the convergence of the African and Eurasian plates.


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It was caused by two tectonic plates. The African and Eurasian plate, by colliding together. It had many eruptions but the most famous one was in 79 A.D. It killed a town called Pompeii in Italy.


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