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Appeal to preserve the history of Mount Vesuvius

18 July 2019

Volcanologists including Professor Chris Kilburn (UCL Earth Sciences) are asking Italy’s minister for culture to leave strategic portions of Pompeii’s volcanic deposits untouched during the latest excavations as they are an extraordinary record of how volcanoes behave.

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