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Author : Rob Carson
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Ecology
ISBN : 9781570612480
As plants, animals, and people have reclaimed Mount St. Helens over the last 20 years, the mountain remains a looming reminder of an event that forever changed the face of the Northwest. Essays and photos document the events that surrounded the eruption.
Author : Virginia H. Dale,Frederick J. Swanson,Charles M. Crisafulli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387281506
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens caused tragic loss of life and property, but also created a unique opportunity to study a huge disturbance of natural systems and their subsequent responses. This book synthesizes 25 years of ecological research into of volcanic activity, and shows what actually happens when a volcano erupts, what the immediate and long-term dangers are, and how life reasserts itself in the environment.
Author : Steve Olson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780393242805
A riveting history of the Mount St. Helens eruption that will "long stand as a classic of descriptive narrative" (Simon Winchester). For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings from Mount St. Helens in southwestern Washington State. Still, no one was prepared when a cataclysmic eruption blew the top off of the mountain, laying waste to hundreds of square miles of land and killing fifty-seven people. Steve Olson interweaves vivid personal stories with the history, science, and economic forces that influenced the fates and futures of those around the volcano. Eruption delivers a spellbinding narrative of an event that changed the course of volcanic science, and an epic tale of our fraught relationship with the natural world.
Author : Patricia Lauber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993-03-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780689716799
May 18, 1980, 8:32 A.M.: An earthquake suddenly triggered an avalanche on Mount St. Helens, a volcano in southern Washington State. Minutes later, Mount St. Helens blew the top off its peak and exploded into the most devastating volcanic eruption in U.S. history. What caused the eruption? What was left when it ended? What did scientists learn in its aftermath? In this extraordinary photographic essay, Patricia Lauber details the Mount St. Helens eruption and the years following. Through this clear accurate account, readers of all ages will share the awe of the scientists who witnessed both the power of the volcano and the resiliency of life.
Author : Robert I. Tilling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Saint Helens, Mount (Wash.)
ISBN : UCSD:31822001959972
Author : Lauren Tarshis
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545658539
The mountain exploded with the power of ten million tons of dynamite... Eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe has grown up with the beautiful Mount St. Helens always in the background. She's hiked its winding trails, dived into its cold lakes, and fished for trout in its streams. Just looking at Mount St. Helens out her window made Jess feel calm, like it was watching over her somehow. Of course, she knew the mountain was a volcano...but not the active kind, not a volcano that could destroy and kill!Then Mount St. Helens explodes with unimaginable fury. Jess suddenly finds herself in the middle of the deadliest and most destructive volcanic event in U.S. history. Ash and rock are spewing everywhere. Can Jess escape in time?The newest book in the I Survived series will take readers into one of the most environmentally devastating events in recent U.S. history.
Author : Kristine Harper
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781438102269
The long dormant Mount St. Helens volcano of the Cascade Mountain Range in Washington State erupted on May 18, 1980.
Author : Carmen Bredeson
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766040151
A revised series provides detailed overviews of devastating world disasters, weaving together important background information with gripping accounts from survivors and victims.
Author : Melanie Holmes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252051340
Serendipity placed David Johnston on Mount St. Helens when the volcano rumbled to life in March 1980. Throughout that ominous spring, Johnston was part of a team that conducted scientific research that underpinned warnings about the mountain. Those warnings saved thousands of lives when the most devastating volcanic eruption in U.S. history blew apart Mount St. Helens, but killed Johnston on the ridge that now bears his name. Melanie Holmes tells the story of Johnston's journey from a nature-loving Boy Scout to a committed geologist. Blending science with personal detail, Holmes follows Johnston through encounters with Aleutian volcanoes, his work helping the Portuguese government assess the geothermal power of the Azores, and his dream job as a volcanologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Interviews and personal writings reveal what a friend called "the most unjaded person I ever met," an imperfect but kind, intelligent young scientist passionately in love with his life and work and determined to make a difference.
Author : Dwight Raymond Crandell,Donal Ray Mullineaux,Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Natural disasters
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118363626
An assessment of expectable kinds of future eruptions and their possible effects on human life and property.
Author : Eric Wagner
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780295746944
A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE On May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and horror as Mount St. Helens erupted. Fifty-seven people were killed and hundreds of square miles of what had been lush forests and wild rivers were to all appearances destroyed. Ecologists thought they would have to wait years, or even decades, for life to return to the mountain, but when forest scientist Jerry Franklin helicoptered into the blast area a couple of weeks after the eruption, he found small plants bursting through the ash and animals skittering over the ground. Stunned, he realized he and his colleagues had been thinking of the volcano in completely the wrong way. Rather than being a dead zone, the mountain was very much alive. Mount St. Helens has been surprising ecologists ever since, and in After the Blast Eric Wagner takes readers on a fascinating journey through the blast area and beyond. From fireweed to elk, the plants and animals Franklin saw would not just change how ecologists approached the eruption and its landscape, but also prompt them to think in new ways about how life responds in the face of seemingly total devastation.
Author : Charles River Editors
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 150061758X
*Includes pictures *Includes eyewitness accounts of the eruption *Includes a bibliography for further reading “One big 'Aha!' for geologists was that an entire mountain could collapse.” – Peter Frenzen “Mount St. Helens certainly reminds us of the power of nature, and we can certainly see that in the evidence of the 1980 eruption that's all around us. And here we just have an opportunity to see sort of another chapter in its history and to understand the forces that lie beneath our feet.” – Peter Frenzen In 1980, the United States suffered the deadliest and most destructive volcanic eruption in its history when Mount St. Helens literally blew its lid off, the result of seismic activity during the eruption. What made the eruption all the more remarkable is that a fair amount of preparations had gone into anticipating it after an earthquake in the area a few months earlier alerted federal geologists to the possibility of activity there. In fact, Mount St. Helens had been the cause of the earthquake itself, the result of its own lava flows under the surface. Despite the warning signs, the volcanic eruption wound up being so powerful that it devastated hundreds of square miles around it, along with spewing volcanic ash in a giant plume that managed to scatter and deposit ash across 11 different states. Furthermore, another earthquake on May 18 managed to make the north face of the mountain collapse, shocking observers and scientists as it created the largest landslide ever recorded. Taken together, Mount St. Helens ultimately inflicted over $1 billion in damage and killed 57 people, including U.S. scientists studying the volcano on the day it exploded. When President Carter saw the area, he remarked, “Someone said this area looked like a moonscape. But the moon looks more like a golf course compared to what's up there." The 1980 eruption is why so many Americans are familiar with Mount St. Helens today, but it remains an active volcano and was known for volcanic activity back when the Native Americans lived around it. In fact, Native Americans had oral legends to explain the origins of Mount St. Helens, and European explorers and settlers also observed its eruptions in the 19th century. As scientist Peter Frenzen noted, “There's absolutely no question that Mount St. Helens will erupt again. The question is when.” The Eruption of Mount St. Helens chronicles the history of America's most famous volcano and the destruction it wreaked in 1980. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the volcano like never before, in no time at all.
Author : Gare Thompson
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781438065397
This thrilling new series of books has everything middle school readers long for: action, adventure, danger, and young heroes! Great Escapes explores real historical events and shows children how kids just like them learn how to work together in order to change the world for the better. Historical figures are interwoven into the stories, offering readers the chance for further exploration on these people and their places in history. In Mount St. Helen's 1980: Fiery Eruption!, Alex and Wendy love exploring this beautiful volcano. But when the long-dormant volcano erupts, the two best friends must race to save others—and themselves.
Author : Dwight Raymond Crandell,Donal Ray Mullineaux,Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Natural disasters
ISBN : UCR:31210018661593
An assessment of expectable kinds of future eruptions and their possible effects on human life and property.
Author : William Bankier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 156254098X
Everyone evacuated Mount St. Helens, which had been signalling a coming volcanic eruption, except an elderly man who considered the mountain home.
