{
  "id": 9807843,
  "title": "Pompeii's destruction helps calibrate volcanic dating to within decades",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/pompeiis-destruction-helps-calibrate-volcanic-dating-to-within-decades",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-25T18:00:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-pompeii-destruction-calibrate-volcanic-dating.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "When Pliny the Younger recorded his firsthand experience of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago—a cataclysm that buried Pompeii and killed his uncle, Pliny the Elder—he provided enough detail about the date to allow scientists to benchmark methods for dating volcanic eruptions.",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}