The account of the eruption by his nephew, Pliny the Younger, was still thought of bogus properly into the nineteenth century, when other volcanoes erupted in the precise very same way as he explained the Vesuvius in Ad seventy nine. Because of it, this kind of eruption (pyroclastic explosions with a tall column of ash and pumice but small liquid lava) is frequently recognized to vulcanologists as a Vesuvian or Plinian eruption.