What do You Remember About Mt St Helens' Violent Eruption?
grrlscientist | May 18, 2010tags: What do You Remember About Mt St Helens' Violent Eruption?, volcano, Mt St Helens, earth science, earth science
Mt St Helens eruption, as photographed by NOAA GOES-3 satellite.
Image: NOAA, US Government (public domain) [larger view].
These videos provide a glimpse of what I (and other people in the area) experienced in the aftermath of the Mt St Helens explosion:
Ash that I collected off the hood of the neighbor's car:
A jar of Mt St Helens Ash from the 0832 eruption on 18 May 1980.
This explosive eruption sent ash 24,400 meters (80,000 feet) into the sky,
generated an…