Mt St. Helens
Mount Saint Helens National Volcanic Monument
The Cascade Mountains were pushed up as part of the subduction zones off the coast of Oregon and Washington. As the diving plates were sub-ducted underneath the continental crust of North America a series of volcanos formed. Mt St. Helens is still active today as evidenced by the emerging dome and vent of steam emitting from its crater.
Power. Can it ever be captured? Here lies a post card of photographic evidence. A missing mountain top. Trees aligned to mark the huge explosion of 1981 and forming a log jam in Spirit Lake. New life is evident everywhere and the elk have returned. You can even smell the herds as you wander the landscape. Look beyond the geologically very recent catastrophic forces and you can see remnants of the glaciers in the u-shaped valley carved by their unrelenting erosive power.
Read MoreThe Cascade Mountains were pushed up as part of the subduction zones off the coast of Oregon and Washington. As the diving plates were sub-ducted underneath the continental crust of North America a series of volcanos formed. Mt St. Helens is still active today as evidenced by the emerging dome and vent of steam emitting from its crater.
Power. Can it ever be captured? Here lies a post card of photographic evidence. A missing mountain top. Trees aligned to mark the huge explosion of 1981 and forming a log jam in Spirit Lake. New life is evident everywhere and the elk have returned. You can even smell the herds as you wander the landscape. Look beyond the geologically very recent catastrophic forces and you can see remnants of the glaciers in the u-shaped valley carved by their unrelenting erosive power.
