Reflection of Mount St. Helens / from 9,677ft. to 8,365ft. in seconds
A few nice 9. apple store +160 % images I found:
Reflection of Mount St. Helens / from 9,677ft. to 8,365ft. in seconds
Image by papalars
I have climbed this mountain 4 times. 2xs before the eruption in 1980 and 2xs after. It is much smaller than her bigger brother to the north, Mt. Rainier, but is still formidable! Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is 96 miles (154 km) south of Seattle and 53 miles (85 km) northeast of Portland, Oregon. The volcano is located in the Cascade Range and is part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, a segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire that includes over 160 active volcanoes. This volcano is well known for its ash explosions and pyroclastic flows.
Mount St. Helens is most famous for its catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980, at 8:32am PDT which was the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. Fifty-seven people were killed; 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles (24 km) of railways, and 185 miles (298 km) of highway were destroyed. The eruption caused a massive debris avalanche, reducing the elevation of the mountain’s summit from 9,677 feet (2,950 m) to 8,365 feet (2,550 m) and replacing it with a 1 mile (1.6 km) wide horseshoe-shaped crater. The debris avalanche was up to 0.7 cubic miles (2.9 km3) in volume. The Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument was created to preserve the volcano and allow for its aftermath to be scientifically studied.
As with most other volcanoes in the Cascade Range, Mount St. Helens is a large eruptive cone consisting of lava rock interlayered with ash, pumice, and other deposits. The mountain includes layers of basalt and andesite through which several domes of dacite lava have erupted. The largest of the dacite domes formed the previous summit, and off its northern flank sat the smaller Goat Rocks dome. Both were destroyed in the 1980 eruption.
Shaken by an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, the north face of this tall symmetrical mountain collapsed in a massive rock debris avalanche. Nearly 230 square miles (600 km2) of forest was blown down or buried beneath volcanic deposits. At the same time a mushroom-shaped column of ash rose thousands of feet skyward and drifted downwind, turning day into night as dark, gray ash fell over eastern Washington and beyond. The eruption lasted 9 hours, but Mount St. Helens and the surrounding landscape were dramatically changed within moments.
Timbuk2 Commute
Image by nolanbrown
My Timbuk2 Commute, this bag is awesome. It’s my second Timbuk2 bag but it better then my first. I couldn’t go anywhere without it. Missing: 80 GB HD, Motorola KRZR
Manzanar, Mt Williamson
Image by Floyd B. Bariscale
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 160, located in Inyo County, CA. One of ten WWII relocation centers for Japanese-Americans, Manzanar held 10,000 people beginning in March 1942.
Big Orange Landmarks
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