Mt. St. Helens was a rather large volcano but volcanos are large any ways, Mt. St. Helens was different from any other volcano because when it erupted it started erupting from from a side of the volcano and this caused it collapse in a way that when the eruption was over the volcano was flat on the top and unlike most volcanos the top on those maintain the natural shape or form. Mt. St Helens was a composite volcano. Composite volcanos have slightly steep sides and sometimes small craters on their summits. Volcanologists call these strato or they also call them composite volcanoes because they consist of many layers of lava mixed with layers of sand or gravel like based rock called cinders or also called volcanic ash. One different type of
