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sun
05-05-2006, 06:17 PM
There is a Giant Growing Rock in the U.S.A. Something spectacular?..See for yourself...Mount St Helens is actually gorwing a peak again...at least that what this article at CNN says...Something interesting and not harmfull...
Here is the link with a picture if you would like to see it http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/05/mountsthelens.ap/index.html
HeeHaw9
05-06-2006, 01:00 AM
Whoa. I'm far enough so Mt St Helens doesn't affect where I live, but it's still a scary thought.
Discloner
05-06-2006, 04:03 AM
Whoa. I'm far enough so Mt St Helens doesn't affect where I live, but it's still a scary thought.At this point it's not dangerous. The article says the volcano has been silently erupting since November. The main part of what made the 1980s eruption so catastrophic is the fact that the whole top of the mountain pretty much blew off.

Right now the mountain's just rebuilding it's dome. Some neat pictures on that article.
mookie75
05-06-2006, 02:33 PM
My family visited Mount St. Helens a couple years ago. Apparently, most volcanoes undergo this process. If given enough time, the slow release of new magma, combined with the pressure that is always present beneath the mountain, will regenerate the peak that was blown off when the volcano erupted. Looking at the volcano as it is now, it's still hard to think of people seeing it as "just another mountain" before that fateful day in May of 1980.

EDIT: There's a good collection of pictures at this (http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/SlideSet/ljt_slideset.html) site. You can see a picture of the mountain before it erupted and quite a few of the immediate aftereffects. GS-46/GS-47 and GS-49/GS-50 are the two sets of pics that really give you the old before and after effect.
Peter Paltridge
05-06-2006, 04:29 PM
It started blowing steam and growing when I was in a geology class, and I asked the teacher if it was possible for the mountain to "grow back." He said it could happen.

Interesting; I didn't know mountains could do that.
Gatomon41
05-06-2006, 04:55 PM
It started blowing steam and growing when I was in a geology class, and I asked the teacher if it was possible for the mountain to "grow back." He said it could happen.

Interesting; I didn't know mountains could do that.

How do you think the Haiwaian Islands get created?

I'm not actually surprised. Geology happens all the time on earth, building mountains and taing them down been happening for a long time.
Lord Dalek
05-06-2006, 11:41 PM
It's the horta!
Gatomon41
05-06-2006, 11:44 PM
It's the horta!

LOL :anime:

Good one Lord Dalek. :)
Lord Dalek
05-07-2006, 01:33 AM
Anyway thats the "lavadome" and when its done growing it's gonna blow again. Although personally I believe it'll never top Lassen Peak (http://geography.sierra.cc.ca.us/booth/California/landform_provinces/mt_lassen_eruption.jpg).

Yes, that's a fricken mushroom cloud kids.
Gatomon41
05-07-2006, 02:54 AM
Anyway thats the "lavadome" and when its done growing it's gonna blow again. Although personally I believe it'll never top Lassen Peak (http://geography.sierra.cc.ca.us/booth/California/landform_provinces/mt_lassen_eruption.jpg).

Yes, that's a fricken mushroom cloud kids.

All large explosions have mushrooms clouds. Though, it's quite a nice and impressive picture.
sun
05-07-2006, 02:48 PM
Anyway thats the "lavadome" and when its done growing it's gonna blow again. Although personally I believe it'll never top Lassen Peak (http://geography.sierra.cc.ca.us/booth/California/landform_provinces/mt_lassen_eruption.jpg).

Yes, that's a fricken mushroom cloud kids.

Toonzoners....Let's give real credit to Dalek for finding this picture.,and knowing about this erruption...It is truely amazing..It goes to show the real power the earth has..Be sure to click on the link that he has above...They say there an underground magama layer at Yellowstone Park that may blow someday, just like this...The article says that the "growing rock" is unlikely to blow, but who really knows?
Roman Legion
05-07-2006, 04:57 PM
They say there an underground magma layer at Yellowstone Park that may blow someday, just like this...The park's geysers are caused by deep underground volcanic activity, so yeah. In fact, the whole park is set in the caldera of a massive active volcano. Thankfully, it's not likely to do anything of concern for a long time.

--Romey
ConquerorWorm
05-08-2006, 02:44 PM
The park's geysers are caused by deep underground volcanic activity, so yeah. In fact, the whole park is set in the caldera of a massive active volcano. Thankfully, it's not likely to do anything of concern for a long time.

--Romey

I learned about that in a geology lecture a few months ago. The last few times Yellowstone erupted it was so powerful it made Mt. St. Helens look like a firecracker by comparison.
Disco Pete
05-08-2006, 05:28 PM
So, St. Helens is back in the news. Local mountain does good!

Yes, if S. Helens erupts, you probably won't see me posting anymore... not that I post much anyway.

So if you want to see geology at work come this summer!
(Brought to you by Disco Pete and the Cowlitz County Tourism Office)