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How the Earth Was Made: Vesuvius

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A volcano emits ash and smoke, as seen from a city street. Caption: (narrator) It's the nightmare scenario that everyone fears.

As shown on the History Channel. Mount Vesuvius is the world's most dangerous volcano, and it threatens three million people. It was responsible for the most famous natural disaster of ancient history, the eruption that destroyed the Roman city of Pompeii. And its most recent blast was caught on film in 1944. Today Vesuvius is the most densely populated volcano in the world. Now recent scientific discoveries show that it is capable of an eruption larger than ever before thought possible and that hidden beneath Vesuvius there is a vast magma chamber of boiling hot rock, ready to come out.

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Runtime: 44 minutes 1 seconds

Steeply sloping walls of layered, red sedimentary rock. Caption: the Grand Canyon remains the most famous of them all.
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 1
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A volcano emits ash and smoke, as seen from a city street. Caption: (narrator) It's the nightmare scenario that everyone fears.
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 2
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Molten, glowing sphere being pelted by rocks. Caption: was the fledgling Earth.
How the Earth Was Made
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44 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Sand dunes. Caption: The wind that builds them also blows them away,
How the Earth Was Made
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44 minutes 51 seconds
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A rocky sheer cliff with a river cascading down the face of it, as seen from above. Caption: is shaping this magnificent landscape.
How the Earth Was Made
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44 minutes 21 seconds
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Illustration of a plate of Earth's crust being pushed beneath a second plate. Caption: (narrator) As the two plates moved towards each other,
How the Earth Was Made
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44 minutes 1 seconds
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Lava shooting into the air. Caption: pouring out of volcanoes all around the Ring of Fire.
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 7
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Tall, snowy, and rocky mountain as seen from below. Caption: Is Everest shrinking or growing?
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 8
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Several volcanoes oozing lava and emitting smoke. Caption: They were pushed back by these mountains of fire.
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 9
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Lava field in foreground with evergreen trees and snowy mountain in background. Caption: Southwest of St. Helens, he investigates an area
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 10
44 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12