Essays Tagged: "Mount St. Helens"

This essay is about the different types of volcanoes and how they are made. Includes a works cited page.

e openings are formed when melted rock from deep in the earth build up around the opening, and form mountains. When these openings erupt they shoot out huge fiery clouds over the mountain, and spew gl ... ng rivers of melted lava down their sides. In some eruptions, red-hot ash and cinders shoot out the mountaintop, and large chunks of hot rock are blasted high into the air. Only a few spectacular erup ...

(5 pages) 88 1 4.3 Oct/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

The Role of Plate Tectonics, In Natural Disasters on the West Coast: How the Great Alaskian Earthquake, Eruprion of Mt. St. Hellens, and the Loma Prieta Earthquake are connected.

ward.4There was a lot of excitement in Mt. Saint Helens, Washington. Geologists were monitoring the Mount Saint Helens volcano. Seismicity began several days before March 20, 1980, when an earthquake ... llapse and sliding of the north slope of the volcano. This released the pressure on the magma under Mount St. Helens. The sudden release of pressure caused gas to come out of the magma. It is the gas ...

(8 pages) 157 5 4.4 Dec/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

A short report on the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens. All vital facts and a bibliography included.

There was a lot of excitement in Mt. Saint Helens, Washington. Geologists were monitoring the Mount Saint Helens volcano. Seismicity began several days before March 20, 1980, when an earthquake ... llapse and sliding of the north slope of the volcano. This released the pressure on the magma under Mount St. Helens. The sudden release of pressure caused gas to come out of the magma. It is the gas ...

(3 pages) 67 1 4.8 Dec/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

Choose Three Careers in Geology, and explain what they do.

Kilauea and Mauna Loa volcanoes. Another volcano observatory is in Vancouver, Washington, where Mt. St. Helens and the other Cascades are monitored. The third observatory is stationed in Alaska, where ...

(2 pages) 32 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geology & Geosciences

Volcanoes

sts through the surface. Volcanoes are very enormous in width as well as length. Most volcanoes are mountains, which were built up around the opening by lava and other materials thrown out during erup ... o summit nine kilometers high. Mauna Loa last erupted in March and April 1984.Eruptions of volcanic mountains are one of its amazing highlights. During various eruptions, huge fiery clouds rise over t ...

(3 pages) 41 0 3.7 Jun/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Volcanoes

The Eruption of Mount Saint HelensOne day in October 1857, the people of Carson, Washington, saw something very unus ... One day in October 1857, the people of Carson, Washington, saw something very unusual. They watched Mount St. Helens come to life as ash and steam come out of it. It killed 57 people and covered miles ... tions ever recorded in North America. A severe earthquake earlier that day opened a crack along the mountain's north side. It caused the rock to fall, which was followed by a blast of steam, rock and ...

(4 pages) 63 0 5.0 Jul/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geology & Geosciences

Research a famous volcanic eruption, and include: The History, Location, the effects on both cultural and natural environment, the effects on Humans.

Mount Saint Helens!Volcanoes have been around since the beginning of time, they're very powerful and ... ural environment, and effects on humans of the most famous volcanic eruption in Washington State of Mount St. Helens.Mount St. Helens is a Stratovolcano. Stratovolcanoes are formed by the gathering of ... n the 25th of march 1980, the first steam explosion began. Before the eruption, the area around the mountain was rich with tourism for its natural beauty. The Spirit Lake at the bottom of the mountain ...

(3 pages) 35 0 0.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography

Eruption of Mt. Saint Helens in 1980

Mt. St. Helens is part of the Cascades mountain range in the United States. Cascades mountain range settles on a destructive margin. Juan D ... late (oceanic crust) moved towards the North American Plate (Continental Crust) and formed Cascades mountain range.Over 120years, Juan De Fuca plate had moved towards the North American Plate bit by b ...

(2 pages) 12 0 0.0 May/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography

Mnt. St. Helens

Mt. St. Helens Introduction Mount Saint Helens is one of the most well known volcanoes in America today. Its eruption in 1980 ca ... proars about volcanoes. It astonished millions and gained respect nation wide. With the eruption of Mount Saint Helens came one of the biggest stories and promotional deals a volcano would ever receiv ... athtaking, to others it was disastrous, but to everyone it was a wonder of God and nature.About the mountain Mount Saint Helens is the youngest of the mountains located within the cascade range in Was ...

(14 pages) 24 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Mount St. Helens

Veterans of volcano's wrath wary of repeat." The Connersville News-Examiner has an article called, "Mount St. Helens erupts, not like 1980." Although their titles are different, both newspapers use th ... pers have a similar news events, but they don't contain the exact same information in both articles.Mount St. Helens, the volcano that so-called blew its top according to Associated Press Writer for t ...

(5 pages) 12 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

The Ring of Fire

volcanoes are located on the continents edges, a long island chains or beneath the sea forming long mountain ranges. More than half of the world's active volcanoes above sea level encircle the Pacific ... e way across the coast of North and South America. This area got its name because there is a great amount of volcanoes that encircle the Pacific Ocean. The ring of fire is known for frequent earthquak ...

(4 pages) 10 0 0.0 Apr/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers

Volcanoes

scapes inside the Earth. When it escapes from its current space which is usually confined, a large amount of energy is also released. So due to the increasing pressure, the magma is pushed up to the t ... ns. These volcanoes are the largest and have steep sides. Examples of this type of volcano includes Mount Fiji, Mount Rainer and Mount St. Helens. These volcanoes form tall, conical shaped mountains. ...

(5 pages) 4 0 0.0 Sep/2014

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science