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The Eruption of Mount St. Helens! – documentary movie about the eruption; St. Helens - television movie about the eruption; Geology of the Pacific Northwest; Helenite – An artificial glass marketed as a gemstone, made by fusing the volcanic dust from Mount St. Helens's May 1980 eruption; List of Cascade volcanoes
Prior to the 1980 eruption, Mount St. Helens was the fifth-highest peak in Washington. It stood out prominently from surrounding hills because of the symmetry and extensive snow and ice cover of the pre-1980 summit cone, earning it the nickname, by some, " Fuji-san of America".
On the morning of May 18, 1980, photographer Robert Landsburg hiked 7 miles from the summit of Mount St. Helens in the Cascades mountain range. As the lens of his camera viewed the snowy cap of ...
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May 18, 2018, marks 38 years since Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington State, killing 57 people.
In the weeks leading up to the eruption of Mount St. Helens, Landsburg visited the area many times in order to photographically document the changing volcano. [6] On the morning of May 18, he was within a few miles of the summit. When the mountain erupted, Landsburg retreated to his car while taking photos of the rapidly approaching ash cloud. [7]
The coronavirus outbreak disrupted what had been big plans to mark the 40th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state. The peak in the Cascade Mountain Range blew its top ...
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