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Plinian eruption
Plinian eruptions
, also known as
Vesuvian eruptions
, are
volcanic eruptions
marked by their similarity to the
eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79
. The eruption was described in a letter written by
Pliny the Younger
; it killed his uncle,
Pliny the Elder
.
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