is this a volcanic mountain or a non-volcanic type?
Volcanic
Mount Vesuvius
 volcano 
where is mt. vesuvius located on a map Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy
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Mount Vesuvius [SEP] Introduction
The eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ashes and volcanic gases to a height of , erupting molten rock and pulverized pumice at the rate of per second, ultimately releasing 100,000 times the thermal energy released by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. More than 1,000 people are thought to have died in the eruption, though the exact toll is unknown. The only surviving eyewitness account of the event consists of two letters by Pliny the Younger to the historian Tacitus. Vesuvius has erupted many times since, and is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years.