Mount Rainier Research Paper

Let’s begin with Mount St. Helens which is located in the pacific northwest of the United States. To be more specific it is located in Washington State and is a part of the Cascade mountain range that spans from California to Canada. It is a composite volcano, which has steep sides that are formed by alternating layers of lava

There are many differences between the volcanoes for example the explosivity of the two volcanoes most recent eruptions are completely different Kilauea is almost constantly flowing and has virtually no explosions at all it also has low viscosity lava flows running from it constantly where as MT st Helens is completely different in MT st Helens most devastating eruption in 1980

Imagine a single event that can kill 57 people and 7000 deer and elk. Snap trees like a toothpick, and turn the sky grey for 15 days. Now, stop imagining, Mount St. Helens, in the Cascade Range of southwestern Washington State, erupted. On May 18th,1980. According to (Campbell 371), “At least $1 billion in economic damage was reported”. The eruption of Mount St. Helens took many lives, and devastated America. Mount St. Helens destroyed more than 230 square miles of ancient forest.

On this day in 1863, Union troops capture Lookout Mountain southwest of Chattanooga, Tennessee,as they begin to break the Confederate siege of the city. In the “battle above the clouds,” the Yankees scaled the slopes of the mountain on the periphery of the Chattanooga lines.

The first time I saw Mt. Rainier for myself, was last summer when my boyfriend and I drove to Washington. It was the most beautiful, peaceful looking mountain I have ever seen. However, underneath it's great beauty, it hides a deadly secret. Mt. Rainier is one of the most dangerous volcanoes that we have here in the United States. One of the reasons it is so dangerous is because of it's great beauty. People enjoy looking at it, and the area that surrounds it, so they have made their homes here. Mt Rainier is not the only volcano I am interested in, in fact this last summer I also went to Mt. St. Helens and Crater Lake. But it is the volcano I chose to research for this paper because it does have so much beauty and at the

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Mount St. Helens Location: Washington, United States Latitude: 46.20 N Longitude: 122.18 W height: 2,549 meters or 8,364 feet - 9,677 feet before May 18, 1980 Type: Stratovolcano Number of eruptions in past 200 years: 2-3 Latest Eruptions: Between 1660-1700, around 1800-1802, 1831, 1835, 1842-1844, 1847-1854, 1857, 1980-? Present thermal activity: strong steaming Nickname: Mount Fuji of the West Remarks: continuous intermittent activity since 1980 with occasional eruptions of steam and ash; occasional pyroclastic flows; intermittent dome forming. MSH is considered a young volcano that developed over the last 40,000 years and is one of the most active volcanoes in the Cascade Range. Geologists predicted that the

Helens, put shortly, is due to the Juan De Fuca plate sub-ducting beneath the North American plate. The collision between these two plates caused the formation of multiple mountain ranges/volcanoes, St. Helens included. As the Juan De Fuca plate moves deeper and deeper south, it starts to get hotter and hotter. Once it reaches the upper mantle (Asthenosphere), the plate begins to melt into magma while at the same time, water is being introduced as well. This combination increases the volume of the magma, thus, decreasing the density, causing it to start moving upwards through the lithosphere until it reaches the surface. This process takes hundreds of thousands of years, resulting it huge volcanoes named Stratovolcanoes, capable of mass destruction as St. Helens so kindly

Volcanoes are one of the most intimidating natural processes that occur on this planet. Usually they are associated with danger and chaos. Volcanoes are characterized by both their composition and eruption types. In this paper we will be exploring the similarities and differences between three infamous volcanoes, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Kileaue, and the currently relevant Mt. Agung.

Before May 1980, Mount St. Helen in Washington State ha been quiet for over a hundred years. It had been calling "the Fuji of America " because it's symmetrical cone resembled the famous volcano in Japan. It's massive eruption on Sunday, May 20, 980, changed that shape. Mount St. Helens lost 3.7 billion cubic yards of rock. Volcanic ash was send fifteen miles into the air, and very hot winds blew in all directions. Two hundred thirty square miles of forest were flatten. Seventy percent of the snow and ice on the mountain melted, causing an enormous landslide of mud, volcanic ash, rocks, and trees to speeding down the mountain at 500 miles per hour. In the eruption, fifty-seven people lost their lives, some as far away as thirteen miles from the mountain. Most of them were scientists, loggers, and journalists.

Mount St Helens erupted on May 18th,1980. The ash covered everything all the way to the Idaho border. Mount Saint Helens was the biggest volcano in Washington. The eruption was also one of the biggest in a while. So many parents/grandparents in the Washington area remember it. I interviewed my mom to tell me what it was like.

According to Govt Geo. Studies a 5.1 Magnitude earthquake shook the landscape in Washington, causing Mount St. Helens to crumble and slabs of rock to collapse, which led to the infamous 1980 MT St. Helens eruption. A volcano once thought to be asleep and inactive had proved seismologists wrong.

In these eruptions, instead of the mixture of gas and ash flowing upwards, it flows outwards and hugs the ground. These eruptions are extremely dangerous.