#mount st helens

[mapsontheweb]

Washington State's Mt. St. Helens Elevation Map

by u/acomfysweater

#maps #acomfysweater #mount st helens

[bettergeology]

Keeping an eye out

Mount St. Helens is the most active volcano in the Cascades. It's major eruption in 1980 has been succeeded by about 10 other smaller eruptions and maintains near-constant microseismicity. The first pictures show one of the close-in monitoring stations at Windy Ridge. The USGS Cascade Volcano Observatory maintains a number of large monitoring stations close to the mountain, near the vent, where they've been armored to protect from eruptive activity. These stations typically include a seismometer (seismogram here), a GPS station (the white dome), and other equipment like geophones or a webcam. Volcanoes never erupt spontaneously, they are always preceded by some kind of activity - usually small earthquakes - and let you know when they're ready to go. St. Helens hasn't done anything since about 2010, taking a well-deserved rest after the major lava dome growth in 2004-2008.

Around the mountain to the southeast, you can hike through the Plains of Abraham's pumice fields and past the slot-canyon head of Ape Canyon to the rim of the Muddy River, where another monitoring station reports seismicity and GPS data. The GPS stations observe the shape of the volcano over time. As gas, fluids, and magma move around inside the mountain, the surface deforms. Rapid or dramatic deformation is often indicative of impending eruption or other activity, and is one of the most important parameters in the volcanologists' arsenal.

#geology #pacific northwest #washington state #washington geology #mount st helens #volcano #cascade volcanoes #gifford pinchot national forest #volcanology #geohazard #loowit #bettergeology #adventures

[oldschoolfrp]

1980s fantasy-themed silver and helenite jewelry by Monica Roi Saxon / MRS Sunshine Enterprises Inc (ad in Dragon magazine #62, June 1982).  Helenite is an artificial glass made by fusing ash from the 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens.

D&D inspo:  Unique gems might be found around volcanoes, in areas blasted by dragon breath, around portals to the Elemental Plane of Fire, or within fiery outer planes.

#D&D #Dungeons & Dragons #1980s #dragon #dnd inspo #D&D ideas #jewelry #Mount St Helens #helenite #Excalibur #Monica Roi Saxon #MRS Sunshine Enterprises Inc #Dragon magazine #dnd #Dungeons and Dragons

[spiced-wine-fic]

Richard Lasher was on his way to ride his dirt bike when Mt. St. Helens erupted in front of him. (1980). More fascinating photos: https://bit.ly/3P0tk7r

#mount st helens #historic photos

[economicsresearch]

page 553 - under the earth magma is roiling. Ceaseless.

If it stops, we're dead.

It will escape from time to time because it must. Explosive eruption or languid flow, it arrives as lava and burns what it touches. Or sometimes just what it breathes on.

I have to keep thinking to see what comes out.

#economy #economist #economics #exploitation #discrimination and preferential hiring preferences #discrimination #marginal factor cost #marginal #volcano #volcanic #etna #mount st helens #krakatoa #lava #eruption #geology #thoughts #freud #jung #psychotherapy #repressed memories

[the-birth-of-art]

Spent my day visiting an active stratovolcano.

#mount st helens #lawetlat’la #loowit #stratovolcano my beloved #nature finds a way #johnston ridge observatory #mount st. helens national volcanic monument #that’s a lotta pumice

[landscapeshub]

Mount St. Helens

© Randall J Hodges

#usa #washington state #skamania county #mount st helens #lawetlatla #loowit #louwala-clough

[justwalkiingthedog]

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2019/07/26/the-story-behind-that-photo-of-the-pinto-in-front-of-the-mt-st-helens-eruption

#ford pinto #Yamaha I.T. #mount st helens

[rubyredraspberry]

#mount st helens #physical geography #skamania county #washington state

[mapsontheweb]

1980 Mount Saint Helens eruption victims

#maps #mount st helens #deaths

[bettergeology]

Mount St. Helens (Lawetlat'la) as seen from Oaks Bottom, Portland on a sunny April day.

Visit my Flickr to for more!

#oregon #portland #photography #pacific northwest #pdx #not geology #mount saint helens #mount st helens #portlandoregon

[oldschoolfrp]

Fantasy-themed silver and helenite jewelry from the 1980s by Monica Roi Saxon / MRS Sunshine Enterprises Inc (ad in Dragon magazine #62, June 1982).  Helenite is an artificial glass made by fusing ash from the 1980 Mount St Helens eruption.

D&D inspiration:  Unique gems might be found in volcanic areas, in locations that have been blasted by a dragon’s breath, or around portals to the Elemental Plane of Fire.

#D&D #Dungeons & Dragons #1980s #dragon #Mount St Helens #dnd inspo #D&D ideas #jewelry #Monica Roi Saxon #Helenite #Excalibur #Dragon magazine #dnd #MRS Sunshine Enterprises Inc #Dungeons and Dragons

[coiour-my-world]

"The Cosmos" | Mt. St. Helens, WA || Chris Williams

#mount saint helens #mountain #mountains #mt. st. helens #volcano #milky way #stars #wild flowers #flowers #chris williams #nature #landscape

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Mount St. Helens erupts in 1980. Steve Firth, a friend of the man who took this photo had the following to say: “...That Pinto and dirt bike belonged to a good friend of mine and when he stopped to turn around, he took this picture. He told me that there was lightning bolts shooting out of the smoke but he didn’t have the right filter on his camera to capture them at that moment. The picture could have been even more amazing. It was used on the TV news and used to be on the cover of Mt. St. Helens brochure at the Johnston Observatory / visitor center. He gave me an original 8×10 copy of it. Although it looked like he was a good distance away from the blast, he barely made it out of there alive. Had the blast came more in his direction he would have died in seconds. Sometime later he returned and photographed a burned-out pickup with a horse trailer attached to it. He told me he had talked to them that day and said they never made it out. He is a freelance photographer so he took some amazing pictures of the aftermath as well. Anyhow, I thought I’d let you know a bit more about that fabulous picture."

Read more: The Eruption and the Pinto

#Mount St. Helens #volcano #eruption #Richard Lasher #Dick Lasher #Ford Pinto #volcanic eruption #religion is a mental illness

[nobrashfestivity]

Barbara Noah. Tag III, 1981. Oil on photo linen. Collection of the artist, Seattle, © 1981 Barbara Noah, for changes and additions to a Mount St. Helens image courtesy of USGS, L2019.93.1

#barbara noah #mount st. helens

[eopederson2]

Mt. Adams from Windy Ridge, Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Washington, 2014.

#landscape #mountains #vulcanism #blast zone #mt adams #mount st helens national volcanic monument #washington state #2014 #photographers on tumblr #pnw #pacific northwest