Mt. St. Helens in Washington is a cinder cone volcano that once reached almost 10,000 feet in height.
Some famous stratovolcanoes are
Mt. St. Helens and Mt.
Hacker, who studies catastrophic geological events, indicates the slide originated when a volcanic field consisting of many strato-volcanoes--a type similar to
Mt. St. Helens in the Cascade Mountains, which erupted in 1980--collapsed and produced the massive landslide.
Krakatoa, Indonesia (1883), El Chichon, Mexico (1983),
Mt. St. Helens (1980) and Mount Pinatubo (1991) are all known to have caused blue moons.
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Mt. St. Helens, one of the less prominent yet massive peaks of Washington State's Cascade Range, made history on May 18, 1980 by erupting with the force of 500 atomic bombs, devastating 230 square miles of formerly verdant forest and killing 57 people.
Whitney in California,
Mt. St. Helens in Washington, Hvannadalshnjkur in Iceland, Svalbard in Norway, and volcanoes in Bolivia and Kamchatka, Siberia.
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Mt. St. HelensUsing a ruler and the scale above, measure the distance in kilometers from Kilauea to
Mt. St. Helens.
Stratovolcanoes, like
Mt. St. Helens, are tall explosive mountains.
Mt. St. Helens - an active volcano in the Cascade Range in southwestern Washington; erupted violently in 1980 after 123 years of inactivity