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Mount St. Helens. By: Alex Green. Location. Located in Washington state (42.20 N , 122.18 W) About a 3 hour drive from Seattle Mt St. Helens is located on the circum pacific belt. Size. It is 8,363 feet high. Last eruption. May 18, 1980, 8:32 am (PDT) active. Type of volcano.
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Mount St. Helens By: Alex Green
Location • Located in Washington state • (42.20 N , 122.18 W) • About a 3 hour drive from Seattle • Mt St. Helens is located on the circum pacific belt.
Size • It is 8,363 feet high
Last eruption • May 18, 1980, 8:32 am (PDT) • active
Type of volcano • Mt St Helens is a stratovolcano (or a composite volcano)
Type of eruption • Mt. St. Helens’ eruption was a pyroclastic flow. • The lava flow for a pyroclastic eruption is a very fast hot rocks and hot gas
info. • 57 people were killed as a result of Mt St Helens eruption in 1980
Info. • 7000 big game animals were believed to have died in the eruption
Info. • Mt St Helens is believed to keep erupting but no one know when It will erupt next
bibliography • http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=+mt+st+helens&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2 • http://www.olywa.net/radu/valerie/StHelens.html