Explosive deposits following the first rainy season after the erupt...

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Detailed Description

Second of two photographs showing what happened during the first rainy season after the explosive eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980. The eruption generated a large pyrocalstic surge and tephra fall that deposited loose gravel-sized and sand-sized rock debris to a thickness of about 1 m and leveled nearly all vegetation in this area, about 8 km northeast of the volcano.

Details

Image Dimensions: 800 x 500

Date Taken: Wednesday, September 30, 1981

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