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They had also visited Pompeii, the ancient Italian city buried under volcanic ash and pumice when Mt.

The project had stalled around 2021 when a lawsuit argued that the road through the lake’s Pumice Plain could damage research in the monument.

Health sciences students from UW show up with boxes of supplies — buckets for footbaths, oatmeal packets to soothe the feet and decrease swelling, disposable absorbent pads and individual packets of nail supplies for each patient, including pumice stones, files, nail clippers and nail scrapers to clean nails and feet.

A wide residential and commercial block, known as "Region 9", is being cleared of several metres of overlying pumice and ash thrown out by Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago.

In addition to lava, volcanos eject large amounts of pumice, ashes and gases as a fast-moving flow, known as "pyroclastic flow," and its sediments are a valuable data source on past eruptions.