And some sentient autonomous robotic organisms...
Posted on 11/09/2007 7:35:34 PM PST by bkwells
But, but, but I thought it took millions of years to form mountains.
“But, but, but I thought it took millions of years to form mountains.”
It does.
Mt St Helens is an active stratovolcano.
I’d guess St. Helens has blown its top before.
I’d guess that large quantities of snow and ice were entrained inside the volcano as the mountain rebuilt itself last time too.
I’d guess that much of that entrained snow and ice flashed to steam in 1980, and created additional blast pressure, and helped create the massive lahars that followed the 1980 eruption.
Now that we actually see it happening, it’s not hard to apply the phenomena to other strato-volcanoes like Adams and Hood and Rainier and Shasta.
A few years back when the Mt was doing alot of activity (when the shark fin was really prominent) some dude went up on the lip and shot some video.
Pretty sure they arrested him when he got down but they showed some of the vid on the tube and it was hair-standing-up-on-the-back-of-your-neck creepy.
Constant low rumblings. Rocks as big as houses falling of the crater edge and down into the crater. Unbelievable power. While the guy was shooting it, he kept dropping down to the ground because it was shaking so much and unstable.
I’ve tried for a while to find the vid but was never able to.
I was on my way from Wisconsin to Montana the day after Mt. St. Helens errupted. Spent the night in Butte because the ash was so thick. All traffic was halted by the State Patrol.
The dust clouds that we kicked up were amazing.
A month later natives were selling the ash to tourists in bottles.
Capitalism at its best! ; )
And some sentient autonomous robotic organisms...
Holy Bombs, Moms, look at how much bigger the dome is now!
OMG!! Those ARMS are AWESOME!! I’ve bee to MSH but didn’t see this angle...THANKS for the pic!
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/Images/MSH04/framework.html
I personally like this site better:
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/
Let’s everyone size it anyway they want to.
I remember the day after it blew. An Oregonian article quoted a geologist who exclaimed, "We just witnessed 10,000 years of geological history in one day."
Geology is just like evolution, flawed by the desire to eliminate God.
That is kewel, I used to look at the web cam once a day, it had great shots, but I forgot all about it! Thanks!
bmflr
Oh, yeah, and then we had that nuclear winter and...oh, nevermind.
Oh yeah, that explains it. NOT!
Absolutely right.
About half of the world’s glaciers are advancing, about half retreating.
Few stay static at any time.
But we do only hear about the ones retreating - the rest are ignored.
Geo ping.
“Oh yeah, that explains it. NOT!”
Well,
Ever heard of plate tectonics?
How we can actually measure the speed that land masses move into each other? and that it is verrrrry slow.
Pushing up materials into mountains.
Takes millions of years.
Unless God created an already aged appearing world 6000 years ago just to eff with us.
Being a geology major I can say that any true scientist will only make a hypothesis about the future, not a prophecy.
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