{{Short description|Eruption of Mount Vesuvius (~8900 BP)}} {{Infobox eruption | name = Mercato eruption | image = | image_size = | caption = | date = 6940 BCE ± 100 years<ref name=SI/> | start_time = | volcano = Mount Vesuvius | type = Plinian eruption | location = Campania, Italy | coordinates = | VEI = 5 or 6<ref name="SI"/><ref name="GN">{{cite journal | url=http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/early/2014/01/30/SP396.4.abstract | title=Temperatures of the pyroclastic density currents deposits emplaced in the last 22 kyr at Somma–Vesuvius (Italy) | journal=Geological Society, London, Special Publications | volume=396 | pages=13–33 |author1=Elena Zanella |author2=Roberto Sulpizio |author3=Lucia Gurioli |author4=Roberto Lanza | doi=10.1144/SP396.4 | year=2015 | issue=1 | bibcode=2015GSLSP.396...13Z | hdl=2318/145279 | s2cid=129969700 | hdl-access=free }}</ref> | map = | map_size= | map_caption = | impact = }}
The '''Mercato eruption''' (Pomici di Mercato) of Mount Vesuvius was a Plinian eruption that occurred around 8,010 ± 40 14C yr BP (8,890 ± 90 cal yr BP).<ref> {{cite journal | title= Geological map of Somma-Vesuvius volcano | vauthors= Andronico D, Calderoni G, Cioni R, Sbrana A, Sulpizio R, Santacroce R | journal= Period Mineral | year= 1995 | volume= 64 | pages= 77–78 }} </ref> The Global Volcanism Program claims that the eruption had a Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) of 5,<ref name="SI">{{cite web|url=https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=211020&vtab=Eruptions|title=Vesuvius|work=Global Volcanism Program|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|accessdate=2019-01-13}}</ref> while Zanella ''et al.'' (2014) estimate it had a VEI of 6.<ref name=GN/> The eruption was preceded by 7,000 years of rest and followed by about 4,000 years of rest.<ref name=Springer2007> {{cite journal | last1= Aulinas | first1= M. | last2= Civetta | first2= L. | last3= Di Vito | first3= M. A. | last4= Orsi | first4= G. | last5= Gimeno | first5= D. | last6= Férnandez-Turiel | first6= J. L. | title= The "Pomici di mercato" Plinian eruption of Somma-Vesuvius: magma chamber processes and eruption dynamics | journal= Bulletin of Volcanology | date= 20 November 2007 | volume= 70 | issue= 7 | pages= 825–840 | doi= 10.1007/s00445-007-0172-z | s2cid= 128505462 }} </ref>
==See also== *List of large volcanic eruptions
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==External links== * [http://www.eps.mcgill.ca/~courses/c186-530/Weekly%20readings/Week%208%20-%20fall%20deposits/Mele%20et%20al%202011.pdf Stratigraphy and eruptive dynamics of a pulsating Plinian eruption of Somma-Vesuvius: the Pomici di Mercato]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Category:Mount Vesuvius Category:Prehistoric volcanic events Category:Volcanic eruptions in Italy Category:Prehistoric Italy Category:VEI-5 eruptions Category:VEI-6 eruptions Category:7th millennium BC Category:Plinian eruptions
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