Cascade Volcanoes

Earthquakes and volcanoes go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly or rice and beans. Where there are volcanos there are usually tectonic plates beneath them either pushing against or pulling away from one another. Take for instance the Cascade Mountain Range in Northern California and stretches through Oregon and into Vancouver, British Columbia and sits northeast of the San Andreas Fault line that runs 750 miles through California. This fault creates the tectonic boundary between the…

Mount St. Helens By Kyle Lockhead Volcanoes destroy and volcanoes create. The catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980 was devastating. It shows the destructive power of a volcano. Yet, over a time span longer than human memory. Volcanoes have played a key role in forming and modifying the planet we live on. More than 80 percent of the Earth's surface is from a volcano and the eruption from Mt St. Helens is big part in the environment but the mountain of Mt St. Helens will never…

The eruption sprayed a thick layer of volcanic ash over a huge area. If you do not know what Mount ST. Helens is, well it is a volcano that erupted in the year 1980. Mount ST. Helens is located in the Cascade mountain ninety-five miles south of Seattle. In the Cascade mountain there are fifteen volcanoes currently active. Before Mount ST. Helens eruption in 1980 the last volcano to erupt was Mount Lassen. The volcano erupted on May 18, 1980. The eruption happed at 8:32 a.m. The eruption…

eruptions take place is very advanced and provides a level of comfort to present day cultures, yet people still struggle to comprehend the phenomena of a mountain exploding and releasing lava. Thousands of years ago when ancient cultures experienced volcanoes there was no science to explain why the eruptions took place, thus the people attempted to explain the events in a different way. People today find themselves looking to God for answers to so-called miracles, and so did the cultures of the…

ranges. Most of the mountains are capped in snow. There are five major volcanoes as part of the Cascade Range - Mount Baker, Glacier Peak, Mount Rainier, Mount Adams and Mount St. Helens. Mount Rainier is Washington's highest mountain at 14,410 feet above sea level. The longest river in Washington is the Columbia River and it empties into the Pacific Ocean. The largest natural lake in Washington is Lake Chelan. The Cascade Range divides the state into two main areas. The western section has…

since it is a very well known volcano, but if you haven’t, then I will tell you all you need to know about the volcano. Mount St. Helens is a stratovolcano. Stratovolcanoes are also considered to be a composite volcano. Composite volcanoes are the type of cone-shaped volcanoes. Mount St. Helens is made up of layers of hardened lava and rock fragments, because it is a composite volcano. Mount St. Helens has had many eruptions in the past so it means that it is an active volcano,an explosive…

INTRODUCTION National parks have been created all around America. One of the parks in northern California is Lassen Volcanic National Park. Lassen Volcanic has volcanoes, steaming fumaroles, and hydrothermal vents. It is well known for the Lassen Peak eruption of 1915.This essay will talk about History, Climate, Geology, Location, and Miscellaneous. HISTORY Lassen Volcanic was founded in 1915. The last Lassen eruption was in 1915 and from 1916 to 1921 only ash and steam came out of the…

from an opening in its surface is considered the most captivating. Volcanoes, whose name originates from Vulcan the Roman god of fire, are some of the most stunning and fascinating processes to occur underneath and on the surface of the earth. To better understand volcanoes this essay will touch on several topics including, what volcanoes are, their various types, their relationship with earthquakes, hazards and examples of volcanoes. From the typical ‘red foam’ erupting volcano science project…

(Bagley). The eruption had costed millions and the wildlife and nature were destroyed. A future eruption is unlikely but you never know. Mount St. Helens is in the Washington State and is the most active volcano in the Cascade Range (USGS). The range has many active volcanoes because its falls in the…

Volcanoes: Destruction Makers Natural disasters are tragic events caused by nature that have a negative impact on man. Volcanoes can be considered one of the worst types of natural disasters because they often kill people, injure people, and/or destroy property. One example of a volcano is Mount Saint Helens. “A volcano is an opening in Earth’s crust through which ash, gases, and molten rock from below ground erupt onto Earth’s surface or into the atmosphere” (Kobasa). Volcanic eruptions…