Mt. St. Helens: Back From the Dead

Links & Books

Links

Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument
www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/mshnvm
See video of a 360-degree flight around the volcano rim and Spirit Lake, check out archival photos of the 1980 eruption, and more at this website from the U.S. Forest Service.

A Guide to Volcanoes: In-Depth Reports
www.scientificamerican.com/report.cfm?id=volcano-guide
Learn how the crater of Mount St. Helens is growing, read about what causes a volcanic eruption, and more at this site from Scientific American.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Mount St. Helens
www.seattlepi.com/mountsthelens
Find out all about the Mount St. Helens eruption at this website, written to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the natural disaster.

Smithsonian Institution—Global Volcanism Program
www.volcano.si.edu
You can find a record of every recorded volcanic eruption that occurred in the last 10,000 years on this website.

Volcano Eruptions, Ancient & Modern
www.life.com/image/3087754/in-gallery/22994/volcano-eruptions-ancient-modern
See a slide show of volcanic eruptions, from Pompeii to a 2009 eruption on a Russian island.

Books

Volcano: A Visual Guide
by Donna O'Meara. Firefly Books, 2008.

Ecological Responses to the 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens
by Virginia H. Dale, Frederick J. Swanson, and Charles M. Crisafulli. Springer, 2005.

Volcanoes of the Cascades: Their Rise and Their Risks
by Richard L. Hill. Falcon, 2004.

Mount St. Helens: The Eruption and Recovery of a Volcano
by Rob Carson. Sasquatch Books, 2002.

Articles

"Clash Over Rebirth of Mt. St. Helens"
by Cornelia Dean. The New York Times, August 17, 2009.
www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/science/18helens.html

"Sniffing Out a Rumbling Volcano"
by Katharine Sanderson. NatureNews, November 17, 2008.
www.nature.com/news/2008/081117/full/news.2008.1237.html

"Fresh Look Inside Mount St. Helens"
ScienceDaily. February 25, 2008.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080219203516.htm

"St. Helens Anniversary Spotlights Surprising Rebound"
by Stefan Lovgren. National Geographic News, May 13, 2005.
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/05/
0513_050513_mountsthelens.html

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