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What type of eruption was mount vesuvius?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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Mount Vesuvius spewed ash and lava, the civialization below it was suffocated by the ash and burnt by high tempertures. Some that got away, came back to retreive lost items after they thought it was done, but it killed them.

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