Roman author and eyewitness to the 79 CE eruption
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His letters provide the historical benchmark used in the study
A team of geochronologists used the historically documented eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE to sharpen argon-argon dating, one of geology's most versatile clocks. The method now dates the eruption to within 13 years of the day Pliny the Younger recorded nearly 2,000 years ago.
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