To answer one of the most frequently asked questions about SDA…
… this is why I link to the volcano cam.
26 Replies to “Mount St Helens”
I live with in a 50 mile radius of MT SHASTA here in NORTHERN CALFIFORNIA and its still a active volcano and it would be far bigger then ST HELENS
…don’t forget you want to capture the giant fly’s…
Another good link, though it’s only Alaska specific, is http://www.avo.alaska.edu/
For those interested (broadband is really recommended) google earth is a great resource if you turn on the geo layer referencing volcanoes. It will show the known points that have activity documented within the last 10k years. Some people in far western Canada and the western 1/3 of the US might be surprised if they looked closely.
magnificant desolation and greenhouse gases to boot.
area covered by Mt.St Helens eruption 230 square miles , caused methinks by an accumulation of humans on the wrong side of the North American plate. mostly lefties on the left coast. http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2000/fs036-00/
“magnificant desolation and greenhouse gases to boot.”
Greenhouse gases? Al Gore will be very concerned. He should take of that.
For some reason I can’t get to excited about volcanos…but I sure do get excited about that ewe drinking your bath water!
CO2 by the friggin’ ton. and meltin’ ice too.
DAY 15:
Thursday, October 7, 2004:
Seismicity persisted at low to moderate rate (1-2 events per minute).
Brief observations of crater revealed only weak puffs of steam from vents.
New vigorous vent reported. A gas-monitoring flight measured emission rates of 2,400 tons per day CO2 and 100 tons per day SO2, the first significant SO2 concentrations of the eruption. The emission rate for H2S was 10 tons per day http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/Eruption04/Chronology/msh_eruption_chronology_20040923-20041014.html
Ahh, the power of blogs, sweeping all before it.
The morning Mt St Helens blew, it was pitch dark at 8.30 a.m., in our area. I had 2 inches of ash in my house. It looked like we had 3 inches of grey snow over night, everything was covered, and it lasted for days. Our farm was 10 miles north of the montana border. Dust and ash was hanging on the sides of appliances. Lethbridge had ash also. If nothing else, it proved how air currents and winds carry debris from one country to another. Now, would the kyotoists please tell me how anyone could have stopped that from happening, or prevent it in the future. That ice cube moved 50 miles in 18 mos, and finally froze somewhere else. Think of it as moving your furniture, still the same, just in a different place.
I remember Mount St Helens well, in May 1980, that is. A layer of ash in Southern Manitoba also.
I also remember the Mount Pinatubo Volcano blowing up in 1991. The dust in the atmosphere took years to settle out. The climate cooled so much the growing season on the Canadian prairies was marginal in 1993.
If, IF we really are heading for some global warming, Canadian crops will probably be better. If global cooling raises it’s ugly head, like happened as recently as 300 years ago ?? .. well Canadians would be buying food from the southern US.
Oh, and by the way, volcanoes release more than 130 Million Tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. EVERY YEAR !! Kyoto type CO2. Credits or no credits.
What happens to all that CO2 ?? Well, it is just used by those crops we were just talking about. To produce our food.
A 130 Million tonnes per year. Now, I wonder, how many tonnes does Man & Women release while going about our lives ?? Lets find out. And don’t ask Al,the Yank,Gore.
the geological burping of the baby.
does anybody know where one can d/l the stop action pics taken by the geologists? one of whom protected his camera in his jacket and which was found intact on his body. they were in the national geographic magazine that featured the event.
st helen’s was a mere pop gun compared to the one a million years ago or whatever that killed most of the mammals in n. america with its layer of ash.
I have never found an online source for the Mt. St. Helens photos. they are on paper in the National Geographic that year.
they also appear in “St. Helens” starring Art Carney.(1981)
speaking of the natural world, heres something you dont see every day:
I had it printed on plotting paper 40X20 and mounted on a rigid board frame.
how long will it take the righties to use it as another excuse to take a swing at mr gore et al?
and which is the trolling, the swiping or me pointing out the swiping????
http colon slashslash antwrp dot gsfc dot nasa dot gov slash apod slash ap061016 dot html
Where was it in Ont that they took air samples and found sand from Saudi Arabia. Stuff moves and there ain’t no way the envirowackos and kyotoists are going to stop the wind. Ask BC about wind power.
I think it was in Ottawa they sampled and found turds from all over the country.
those are good , but its not the sequence he was referring too, they were taken by a photographer who lost his life, he got a sequence of about a couple dozen shots as the bulge raised up and then collapse into a pyroclastic flow. I think he was killed by the (greenhouse) gases and they found his body a few days later and developed the film. they are a fantastic sequence, showing a very assymetrical bulge. a landslide, and then a sideways explosion, a very unusual sequence in the span of humanity but a very usual sequence in the great scheme of plate techtonics.
Im going to have to dig thru a ten foot pile of national geographics to find it.
We were near Cour-de-lane that victoria day weekend , 25 years ago, heading for canada (victoria day)celebrations in Kalispell. it was only luck that we turned back east instead of west into the fray of things , we were listening to Zep on 8 tracks not the news forecast. cruising our way on the US roads with road pops under the seat (screw cap yank beers)probably a beer strike in Canada at the time.
cal2,
His name was Robert Landsburg – Jan. 1981 edition of NG.
yep. thats him. the last exposure had the side of it whitened from the effect of heat on the camera that I supposed caused it to pry open slightly and expose the edge of the film.
very poinant.
thanks Ural, found them.
by a chance misfiling the may 1981 NG was right beside it and there was an article about Ellesmere island.pages 580 to 581 show the various cultures and the time spans and a bit about the climate.pre-dorset sites 35 meters above sea level – before 600bc.Dorset sites (600bc-1000ad) 6 to 10 meters above sealevel.thule sites 2 to 8 meters above sealevel , 1000ad to 1700, norse sites in similar range. appears the vikings got thru the preglobal warming ice got up as far as the point of land across from Thule greenland on ellesmere island, these boys werent know for walking anywhere. it cooled after 1650 or so and even the thule left.
the whole area is rising due to the loss of glaciation from the last iceage.
…you wanna see a mess, wait till Mt. Baker blows…Seattle, Vancouver, Lower Mainland…all within a 100KM radius
…it’s, it’s, it’s that attack of the giant killer space flies…
(forgot to add that line in original post)
Was stationed in Moose Juice when Mnt St Helen’s let the world know she was alive. Volcanic ash had a big effect on flying activities. To see what the ash does to jet turbine blades makes one wonder just how much we rely on technology and how susceptible we still are to mother nature.
There are five major volcanoes in this state; Mt. Baker, Granite Peak, Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens, and Mt. Adams. Of these, Mt. Baker is considered the least likely to catastrophically erupt, due to the normal venting that releases some pressure from the magma within it. Mt. Rainier, the largest of all, is considered to be the most dangerous. It could blow up tomorrow or a thousand years from now. Anyway, be prepared to run very fast, or kiss your crispy butt goodbye.
By the way, when Mt. Baker vents it makes a sound like a locomotive from hell.
Volcanos produce more CO2s then all the factories on earth and more HOT AIR is produced by politicians like AL GORE then by all the SUVs around
I live with in a 50 mile radius of MT SHASTA here in NORTHERN CALFIFORNIA and its still a active volcano and it would be far bigger then ST HELENS
…don’t forget you want to capture the giant fly’s…
Another good link, though it’s only Alaska specific, is http://www.avo.alaska.edu/
For those interested (broadband is really recommended) google earth is a great resource if you turn on the geo layer referencing volcanoes. It will show the known points that have activity documented within the last 10k years. Some people in far western Canada and the western 1/3 of the US might be surprised if they looked closely.
magnificant desolation and greenhouse gases to boot.
area covered by Mt.St Helens eruption 230 square miles , caused methinks by an accumulation of humans on the wrong side of the North American plate. mostly lefties on the left coast.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2000/fs036-00/
“magnificant desolation and greenhouse gases to boot.”
Greenhouse gases? Al Gore will be very concerned. He should take of that.
For some reason I can’t get to excited about volcanos…but I sure do get excited about that ewe drinking your bath water!
CO2 by the friggin’ ton. and meltin’ ice too.
DAY 15:
Thursday, October 7, 2004:
Seismicity persisted at low to moderate rate (1-2 events per minute).
Brief observations of crater revealed only weak puffs of steam from vents.
New vigorous vent reported. A gas-monitoring flight measured emission rates of 2,400 tons per day CO2 and 100 tons per day SO2, the first significant SO2 concentrations of the eruption. The emission rate for H2S was 10 tons per day
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/Eruption04/Chronology/msh_eruption_chronology_20040923-20041014.html
Ahh, the power of blogs, sweeping all before it.
The morning Mt St Helens blew, it was pitch dark at 8.30 a.m., in our area. I had 2 inches of ash in my house. It looked like we had 3 inches of grey snow over night, everything was covered, and it lasted for days. Our farm was 10 miles north of the montana border. Dust and ash was hanging on the sides of appliances. Lethbridge had ash also. If nothing else, it proved how air currents and winds carry debris from one country to another. Now, would the kyotoists please tell me how anyone could have stopped that from happening, or prevent it in the future. That ice cube moved 50 miles in 18 mos, and finally froze somewhere else. Think of it as moving your furniture, still the same, just in a different place.
I remember Mount St Helens well, in May 1980, that is. A layer of ash in Southern Manitoba also.
I also remember the Mount Pinatubo Volcano blowing up in 1991. The dust in the atmosphere took years to settle out. The climate cooled so much the growing season on the Canadian prairies was marginal in 1993.
If, IF we really are heading for some global warming, Canadian crops will probably be better. If global cooling raises it’s ugly head, like happened as recently as 300 years ago ?? .. well Canadians would be buying food from the southern US.
Oh, and by the way, volcanoes release more than 130 Million Tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. EVERY YEAR !! Kyoto type CO2. Credits or no credits.
What happens to all that CO2 ?? Well, it is just used by those crops we were just talking about. To produce our food.
A 130 Million tonnes per year. Now, I wonder, how many tonnes does Man & Women release while going about our lives ?? Lets find out. And don’t ask Al,the Yank,Gore.
the geological burping of the baby.
does anybody know where one can d/l the stop action pics taken by the geologists? one of whom protected his camera in his jacket and which was found intact on his body. they were in the national geographic magazine that featured the event.
st helen’s was a mere pop gun compared to the one a million years ago or whatever that killed most of the mammals in n. america with its layer of ash.
I have never found an online source for the Mt. St. Helens photos. they are on paper in the National Geographic that year.
they also appear in “St. Helens” starring Art Carney.(1981)
speaking of the natural world, heres something you dont see every day:
I had it printed on plotting paper 40X20 and mounted on a rigid board frame.
how long will it take the righties to use it as another excuse to take a swing at mr gore et al?
and which is the trolling, the swiping or me pointing out the swiping????
http colon slashslash antwrp dot gsfc dot nasa dot gov slash apod slash ap061016 dot html
Where was it in Ont that they took air samples and found sand from Saudi Arabia. Stuff moves and there ain’t no way the envirowackos and kyotoists are going to stop the wind. Ask BC about wind power.
I think it was in Ottawa they sampled and found turds from all over the country.
cal2,
Try this.
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/SlideSet/ljt_slideset.html
Grandad
those are good , but its not the sequence he was referring too, they were taken by a photographer who lost his life, he got a sequence of about a couple dozen shots as the bulge raised up and then collapse into a pyroclastic flow. I think he was killed by the (greenhouse) gases and they found his body a few days later and developed the film. they are a fantastic sequence, showing a very assymetrical bulge. a landslide, and then a sideways explosion, a very unusual sequence in the span of humanity but a very usual sequence in the great scheme of plate techtonics.
Im going to have to dig thru a ten foot pile of national geographics to find it.
We were near Cour-de-lane that victoria day weekend , 25 years ago, heading for canada (victoria day)celebrations in Kalispell. it was only luck that we turned back east instead of west into the fray of things , we were listening to Zep on 8 tracks not the news forecast. cruising our way on the US roads with road pops under the seat (screw cap yank beers)probably a beer strike in Canada at the time.
cal2,
His name was Robert Landsburg – Jan. 1981 edition of NG.
yep. thats him. the last exposure had the side of it whitened from the effect of heat on the camera that I supposed caused it to pry open slightly and expose the edge of the film.
very poinant.
thanks Ural, found them.
by a chance misfiling the may 1981 NG was right beside it and there was an article about Ellesmere island.pages 580 to 581 show the various cultures and the time spans and a bit about the climate.pre-dorset sites 35 meters above sea level – before 600bc.Dorset sites (600bc-1000ad) 6 to 10 meters above sealevel.thule sites 2 to 8 meters above sealevel , 1000ad to 1700, norse sites in similar range. appears the vikings got thru the preglobal warming ice got up as far as the point of land across from Thule greenland on ellesmere island, these boys werent know for walking anywhere. it cooled after 1650 or so and even the thule left.
the whole area is rising due to the loss of glaciation from the last iceage.
…you wanna see a mess, wait till Mt. Baker blows…Seattle, Vancouver, Lower Mainland…all within a 100KM radius
…it’s, it’s, it’s that attack of the giant killer space flies…
(forgot to add that line in original post)
Was stationed in Moose Juice when Mnt St Helen’s let the world know she was alive. Volcanic ash had a big effect on flying activities. To see what the ash does to jet turbine blades makes one wonder just how much we rely on technology and how susceptible we still are to mother nature.
There are five major volcanoes in this state; Mt. Baker, Granite Peak, Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens, and Mt. Adams. Of these, Mt. Baker is considered the least likely to catastrophically erupt, due to the normal venting that releases some pressure from the magma within it. Mt. Rainier, the largest of all, is considered to be the most dangerous. It could blow up tomorrow or a thousand years from now. Anyway, be prepared to run very fast, or kiss your crispy butt goodbye.
By the way, when Mt. Baker vents it makes a sound like a locomotive from hell.
Volcanos produce more CO2s then all the factories on earth and more HOT AIR is produced by politicians like AL GORE then by all the SUVs around