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Jun 03, 2018
Vesuvius and Mount Somma from Naples
Since AD 79, Vesuvius has been the uncontested celebrity volcano of continental Europe. When the attention of the volcano paparazzi waivers, Vesuvius has been known to misbehave, as happened in 1631 and 1944, seizing back the spotlight. But hiding in the open, embracing Vesuvius, is another much broader mountain, Mount Somma. The height of Mount Somma is 1,132 meters, just 150 meters lower than Vesuvius. In fact, when Vesuvius is viewed from the north, south, or west, it appears to have a second peak. That second prominence is the crater rim of Somma.
Vesuvius with the eastern rim of Mount Somma
Monte Somma erupted 17,000 years ago from a much larger cone. The thick magma below caused the same kind of forceful eruption that destroyed Pompeii. Vesuvius is actually a smaller cone forming in Somma’s crater. Just as Vesuvius contributed the geological word Plinian, after the Roman citizen Pliny the Younger, who wrote the only eyewitness account of the AD 79 eruption, Mount Somma has given us a scientific term. A somma volcano is a volcanic crater in which a new cone has formed.
Vesuvius and Mount Somma from Pompeii
The area is known to geologists as the Somma-Vesuvius complex. It may have been tranquil for a few decades but the vapor and gas from the nearby Campi Flegrei should remind any dozing paparazzi that something is still cooking down below.
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