[PDF] Mount Saint Helens Blows Its Top eBook

Author : Sharlene P. Nelson
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Ecology
ISBN : 9780516262697

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Describes the destruction caused by the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, the slow return of plant and animal life, and the special area set aside to study this renewal.

Author : Steve Olson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0393242803

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A riveting history of the Mount St. Helens eruption that will "long stand as a classic of descriptive narrative" (Simon Winchester). For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, sightseers, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings in Mount St. Helens, part of the chain of western volcanoes fueled by the 700-mile-long Cascadia fault. Still, no one was prepared when an immense eruption took the top off of the mountain and laid waste to hundreds of square miles of verdant forests in southwestern Washington State. The eruption was one of the largest in human history, deposited ash in eleven U.S. states and five Canadian providences, and caused more than one billion dollars in damage. It killed fifty-seven people, some as far as thirteen miles away from the volcano’s summit. Shedding new light on the cataclysm, author Steve Olson interweaves the history and science behind this event with page-turning accounts of what happened to those who lived and those who died. Powerful economic and historical forces influenced the fates of those around the volcano that sunny Sunday morning, including the construction of the nation’s railroads, the harvest of a continent’s vast forests, and the protection of America’s treasured public lands. The eruption of Mount St. Helens revealed how the past is constantly present in the lives of us all. At the same time, it transformed volcanic science, the study of environmental resilience, and, ultimately, our perceptions of what it will take to survive on an increasingly dangerous planet. Rich with vivid personal stories of lumber tycoons, loggers, volcanologists, and conservationists, Eruption delivers a spellbinding narrative built from the testimonies of those closest to the disaster, and an epic tale of our fraught relationship with the natural world.

Author : Kathryn Allen Goldner
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 23,42 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Saint Helens, Mount (Wash.)
ISBN : 9780875182193

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Describes the events leading up to the May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens and the destruction that resulted. Also discusses the general characteristics of volcanoes, why and when they occur, how eruptions can be predicted, and some famous eruptions throughout history.

Author : Jen Green
Publisher : Gareth Stevens
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 2004-12-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780836844986

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In 1980, Mount St. Helens in Washington State erupted with one of the largest explosions ever recorded in the United States. The volcano shot a huge cloud of ash and hot rock high into the air. Thanks to warnings from scientists, however, relatively few people died in the disaster. Lessons scientists learned from the 1980 eruption also better prepared people for Mount St. Helens' latest rumblings. Book jacket.

Author : Lauren Tarshis
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545658535

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The mountain exploded with the power of ten million tons of dynamite... Eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe has grown up with the beautiful Mount St. Helens always in the background. She's hiked its winding trails, dived into its cold lakes, and fished for trout in its streams. Just looking at Mount St. Helens out her window made Jess feel calm, like it was watching over her somehow. Of course, she knew the mountain was a volcano...but not the active kind, not a volcano that could destroy and kill!Then Mount St. Helens explodes with unimaginable fury. Jess suddenly finds herself in the middle of the deadliest and most destructive volcanic event in U.S. history. Ash and rock are spewing everywhere. Can Jess escape in time?The newest book in the I Survived series will take readers into one of the most environmentally devastating events in recent U.S. history.

Author : Leonard Palmer
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,85 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Saint Helens, Mount (Wash.)
ISBN :

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An illustrated, firsthand account of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens chronicles the events leading up to the eruption, vividly records the awesome violence of the cataclysm, and documents the resulting devastations.

Author : Charles River Editors
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 2014-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781500617585

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*Includes pictures *Includes eyewitness accounts of the eruption *Includes a bibliography for further reading “One big 'Aha!' for geologists was that an entire mountain could collapse.” – Peter Frenzen “Mount St. Helens certainly reminds us of the power of nature, and we can certainly see that in the evidence of the 1980 eruption that's all around us. And here we just have an opportunity to see sort of another chapter in its history and to understand the forces that lie beneath our feet.” – Peter Frenzen In 1980, the United States suffered the deadliest and most destructive volcanic eruption in its history when Mount St. Helens literally blew its lid off, the result of seismic activity during the eruption. What made the eruption all the more remarkable is that a fair amount of preparations had gone into anticipating it after an earthquake in the area a few months earlier alerted federal geologists to the possibility of activity there. In fact, Mount St. Helens had been the cause of the earthquake itself, the result of its own lava flows under the surface. Despite the warning signs, the volcanic eruption wound up being so powerful that it devastated hundreds of square miles around it, along with spewing volcanic ash in a giant plume that managed to scatter and deposit ash across 11 different states. Furthermore, another earthquake on May 18 managed to make the north face of the mountain collapse, shocking observers and scientists as it created the largest landslide ever recorded. Taken together, Mount St. Helens ultimately inflicted over $1 billion in damage and killed 57 people, including U.S. scientists studying the volcano on the day it exploded. When President Carter saw the area, he remarked, “Someone said this area looked like a moonscape. But the moon looks more like a golf course compared to what's up there." The 1980 eruption is why so many Americans are familiar with Mount St. Helens today, but it remains an active volcano and was known for volcanic activity back when the Native Americans lived around it. In fact, Native Americans had oral legends to explain the origins of Mount St. Helens, and European explorers and settlers also observed its eruptions in the 19th century. As scientist Peter Frenzen noted, “There's absolutely no question that Mount St. Helens will erupt again. The question is when.” The Eruption of Mount St. Helens chronicles the history of America's most famous volcano and the destruction it wreaked in 1980. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the volcano like never before, in no time at all.

Author : Carmen Bredeson
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 13,15 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766015524

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An account of how and why Mount St. Helens erupted in May 1980 and the destruction it caused, and a discussion of the return of life to that area.