what are the plate boundary and the names of the plates involved in the vesuvius?

Answer 1

Mount Vesuvius is located along the boundary of the Eurasian and African plates. The African plate is subducting under the Eurasian plate, and this creates volcanoes like Vesuvius.

I'm not sure what mountaingym is talking about. Saying there is no plate boundary associated with Vesuvius is 100% wrong. That's like saying there is no plate boundary associated with Mount St. Helens.

From wikipedia:
"Vesuvius was formed as a result of the collision of two tectonic plates, the African and the Eurasian. The former was pushed beneath the latter, deeper into the earth. The crust material became heated until it melted, forming magma, one kind of liquid rock. Because magma is less dense than the solid rock around it, it was pushed upward. Finding a weak place at the Earth's surface it broke through, producing the volcano.

The volcano is one of several which form the Campanian volcanic arc. Others include Campi Flegrei, a large caldera a few kilometres to the north west, Mount Epomeo 20 kilometres to the west on the island of Ischia, and several undersea volcanoes to the south. The arc forms the southern end of a larger chain of volcanoes produced by the subduction process described above, which extends northwest along the length of Italy as far as Monte Amiata in Southern Tuscany. Vesuvius is the only one to have erupted within recent history, although some of the others have erupted within the last few hundred years. Many are either extinct or have not erupted for tens of thousands of years."

Answer 2

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what are the plate boundary and the names of the plates involved in the vesuvius?

Answer 3

There is no plate boundary associated with Vesuvius, it is all the African Craton. What is occurring is that the African Craton is responding to pressures exerted by the subduction of the European Craton. As Europe slids under it, Africa bows down to accommodate it. The reason Italy remains above sea level is probably due to the Aprennini Mountains, which act as a rigid "backbone" and don't allow it to sink like the rest of the Mediterranean Basin.
The name of the plate is the African Craton.

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