Posted on 11/09/2007 7:35:34 PM PST by bkwells
************************************************************************* From: Jessica Kimmick ************************************************************************* The area of Crater Glacier is approximately one fifth the area of glaciated terrain that existed on Mount St. Helens prior to the catastrophic eruption of May 18, 1980. Crater Glacier is approximately 0.33 square miles, which is twice the area of White River Glacier on the south side of Oregon's Mount Hood. Crater Glacier is the newest glacier to form in North America. It is one of the most rapidly advancing and one of the lowest glaciers in the lower 48 states. At the present, the growing lava dome is squeezing the glacier against the crater walls, causing the ice to thicken and flow more quickly out of the crater. The two arms are moving generally northward,but obliquely towards one another, and their termini, in early September, were approximately 180 feet apart. On April 20, 2007, the termini were approximately 400 feet apart. Between now and then, the glacier termini have advanced towards one another at the rate of approximately 0.7 feet a day.
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I then found the article posted.
Kinda smacks in the face of global warming...
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Sounds like the perfect venue for AlGore’s next concert.
Somebody should buy that girl a camera.
Thanks for a very interesting article!
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“It’s still an empirical science,” Gardner said last week. “We are learning from what we see.”
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how refreshing!
the liberal method is learning from what they feel. they always feel very, very bad.
And which will absolutely be blamed on global warming when it happens.
Watch it happen LIVE:
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/views/java-highdef.php
The views from this Web Cam are most often spectacular. I have it open in a tab every time I am in the browser.
Enjoy,
TL
no google sat pic?
He wanted Mount St. Helen’s to be renamed “The Magma Carter”.:)
Volcanic Cooling trumps Global Warming....
As quickly as this glacier/dome is growing,
why is it so difficult to understand a “young”
earth? Sheesh. We’re seeing this happen with
our own eyes. Observable evidence of short
span (instant) creation.
...and a Bible...
Great picture. This illustrates what is really happening.
What’s hard to grasp is the scale of the picture. These are massive formations.
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