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Mt. St. Helens, Washington
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Plug
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Cascades
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Bomb Aerodynamically shaped
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Pyroclastic Flow >1000 o F >100MPH Poisonous gas
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Mount Pelee 1902 Damage done by pyroclastic flow
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St. Helens 1 Mt. St. Helens eruption First signs of an eruption: 1) Gas emissions, the more the better. 2) Increased seismic activity.
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St. Helens Bulge Bulge grew up to 3 feet per day!
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St. Helens Lateral Blast Bulge collapsed, resulting in a large landslide. Magma chamber exposed.
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St. Helens Main Blast
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St. Helens Before Mt. St. Helens before…
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St. Helens After Mt. St. Helens after.
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Mt. Rainier 4X Mt. St. Helens Steepest part of mountain faces Seattle
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Villarrica volcano, Chile
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Lahar Hot mud flow
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Nevado del Ruiz volcano
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Lahar Consistency of flowing concrete
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Village
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Rainier Lahars
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Volcanoes of The World
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Famous Volcanic Eruptions Year without a summer in NE Sound heard 4000 miles away Largest eruption in past 100 years
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Caldera Volcanoes Yellowstone: Eruption every 600,000 years Last eruption: 2500km 3 of material Toba: 90,000 years ago. Reduced Earth’s human population to about 5000 people.
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Long Valley Caldera Map
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Long Valley Caldera
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Caldera Collapse
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Bishop Tuff
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Yellowstone Hot Spot
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Yellowstone
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Yellowstone Fallout
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Volcanic Aerosols SO 2 Mt. Pinatubo, 1991: 20 tons 1.5 0 F cooling for two years Tambora, 1815: >100 tons 2 0 F cooling
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Zones of Volcanism
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