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Mount Vesuvius eruption used for geological dating
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Latest: Pompeii eruption date revised to October
Researchers from the Berkeley Geochronology Center and the University of Padua are utilizing the historical 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius to refine the precision of argon-argon dating. By using eyewitness accounts fro
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Mount Vesuvius eruption destroys Pompeii and Herculaneum
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