vesuvian eruption

vesuvian eruption
GLOSSARY OF VOLCANIC TERMS
Commonly used as a synonym for a "Plinean" eruption (e.g. Tilling, 1985), , but also used to describe basaltic eruptions which involve long-sustained gas streaming with little ash being released (as in the 1906 eruption of Vesuvius; Cas and Wright, 1987, p. 130).

Glossary of volcanic terms. - University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. . 2001.

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