volcanic glass
noun
: natural glass produced by the cooling of molten lava too rapidly to permit crystallization
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Continuing excavations within the ancient city of Pompeii have revealed the remains of a man and a woman within a small bedroom buried by ash and volcanic glass in AD 79 from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Aug. 2024
Join 5 others in the comments View Comments The ancient Greco-Roman city of Pompeii was buried under ash and volcanic glass during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. and since the 1700s, archeologists have been unearthing the city that’s been frozen in time.
—Amarachi Orie, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
And the same layers of sediment contained rocks with tiny fragments of volcanic glass, suggesting people lived there both before and after the blast in Indonesia, writes CNN’s Katie Hunt.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
Microscopic fragments of volcanic glass found alongside stone tools and animal remains near Ethiopia’s Shinfa River showed how humans survived — and adapted — after the eruption.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Aug. 2024
Join 5 others in the comments View Comments The ancient Greco-Roman city of Pompeii was buried under ash and volcanic glass during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E. and since the 1700s, archeologists have been unearthing the city that’s been frozen in time.
—Amarachi Orie, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
And the same layers of sediment contained rocks with tiny fragments of volcanic glass, suggesting people lived there both before and after the blast in Indonesia, writes CNN’s Katie Hunt.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
Microscopic fragments of volcanic glass found alongside stone tools and animal remains near Ethiopia’s Shinfa River showed how humans survived — and adapted — after the eruption.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
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“Volcanic glass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/volcanic%20glass. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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