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POMPEII - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Day 1 12pm
        
        Initial explosion
        
        15-20km up in air
        
        Cloud of ash, pumice and gas
    - - 12pm to Day 2 (4-6am)
        
        Pumice carried to Pompeii, Oplontis, Stabie
        
        Roof collapse at Pompeii
        
        Earthquakes and lightning at Herculaneum
    - - Day 2 (4-6 am)
        
        Pyroclastic surges
        
        100km/hr
        
        Herculaneum: buried 3m in ash
    - - Day 2 (5-7am)
        
        a second surge
        
        deposits 1.5m onto Herculanuem
    - - Day 2 (approx 6:30 am)
        
        a third surge
        
        direction of Pompeii
        
        stops at Herculaneum gate
    - - Day 2 (7:30-8am)
        
        Surge 4-6 (successive)
        
        100-400 degrees
        
        Pompeii: buried 1.8m in ash
  - - - written in the form of 2 letters
      - written 25 years after
      - failure to mention year of eruption
  - - - contribute tot he debate about the exact date of eruption
  - - - assumed survivors
      - boasted later found full of 300 people
      - died form fulminant and thermal shock
- - - - Regular layout of streets and roads
      - Divided town into Insulae
      - Narrow straight streets
  - - - Roman paving techniques
      - Polygonal blocks of basalt
      - Raised footpaths
      - Stepping stones
        
        Cross roads without stepping in waste
    - - Steets minimum 5m wide
        
        Herculaneum: 2.5m - 7m wide
- - - - Eastern Area
      - Region VI
      - The Insular
      - The Forum
    - - Basalt or tufa
      - raised footpaths
      - stepping stones for pedestrians
      - demonstrate Roman skill
      - laws: 5 metre wide streets