"Figure 2. The eruption blasted away the top of Mount St Helens leaving an enormous crater."
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"Figure 2. The eruption blasted away the top of Mount St Helens leaving an enormous crater."
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There is considerable evidence that the story of a Great Flood is repeated in many cultures.
I do have a question though and that is where did all that water come from?
I just happened to be up in the area on business a couple of years after the blast. Rented a car and drove out to MSH.
AMAZING the destructive power. Driving along, miles from the mountain, there was a sign that read, “Entering blast zone”.
Trees were beginning to pop back up through the rubble, but the trees that were standing before the eruption were laying like match sticks all facing out away from the mountain. Pixie stick style.
Put me in awe.
Was flying from Seattle to Reno once when the pilot took us down for a close look at the destruction. Incredible.
There are hundreds and hundreds of active volcanoes on Earth. Many are under the ocean and many don’t get news coverage because they are smoldering or are far away from populated areas. The most significant fact about Mount Saint Helens, aside from the awesome destructive power, is how close it was to a major city. That is not evidence of anything in the debate over creationism versus evolution. There is no use discussing it as such.
Bfl
Awesome article. Great part where they sent samples to a lab which found the samples to be 3 million years old—they were only 10!
That artical is not very factual. The eruption was caused by an earthquake landslide on the north face which caused the mountain to release its pressure laterally. The majority of the material was from 2 giant slabs of rock that slid one after another which resulted in the largest landslide in recorded history. During the landslide the walls of the verticle lava channel was weakened and the side blew out. The explosion launched chunks of rock the size of large houses over 5 miles and scattered them beyond where the observatory now sits. The landslide hit Spirit Lake and pushed the entire lake over 1000’ up the hillside.
I have been giving tours up in that area for years,I have been fascinated with that mountain since I was a kid, and it is one of my most favorite places to go. The destruction is impressive but at the same time gorgeous.
This is the most absurd analysis of volcanic geology I’ve ever read. Volcanos like St. Helens are common atop subduction zones around the “ring of fire” and elsewhere. There was a gross underestimate of the eruption potential here just as there have been in other volcanoes (i.e. Mount Pinatubo). Secondly, the formation of a volcanic tuff is an igneous deposit, not a typical sedimentary rock like sandstone.
Sort of. The blast blew out the north face and the top collapsed.
A day or two after the mountain blew, the Oregonian newpaper ran an article interviewing a geologist. He said he was amazed at at the extent of the changes. He said we had just witnessed 10,000 years of geological changes in one day.