Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument
July 8th 2007 Our most exciting visit to date was to Mt. St. Helens. We had no idea of the devastation this area suffered from the violent volcanic eruption that occurred at 8:32a.m on Sunday, May 18, 1980. Compare the two pictures of the mountain before May 18th and then after May 18th.
Geologists call Mt. St. Helens a composite volcano(or stratovolcano), a term for steep-sided, often symmetrical cones cons
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