************************************************************************* 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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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.
no google sat pic?
He wanted Mount St. Helen’s to be renamed “The Magma Carter”.:)
Volcanic Cooling trumps Global Warming....
But, but, but I thought it took millions of years to form mountains.
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.
And some sentient autonomous robotic organisms...
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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.
I live pretty near the mountain. My business partner, his brother, have hiked up, and skied into the mountain. It caused an avalanche, but they were at the top of it. And no, it is not legal. These guys are the most awesome extreme skiers in the state.
http://www.cascadecrusades.org/
Mt St Helens is extremely cool, I’ve been up the Randle side, and highly recommend it for a visitor to the state. Clear skies needed to get max enjoyment. Seeing crater lake, still full of logs, amazing. Nearly 30 yrs later, that side is still completely devastated.
On my first visit, there was a HUGE bear jumping around in the lake, fishing. Had no idea bears were that capable of swimming. Two bald eagles were circling it, trying to get leftovers. It was a huge bear, not sure if Grizzlies are in the cascades, but this thing was extremely large.