The string of volcanoes in the Cascades Arc, ranging from California's Mt. Lassen in the south to Washington's Mt. Baker in the north, have been studied by geologists and volcanologists for over a century. Spurred on by spectacular ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 22, 2019
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Some of the clearest, most comprehensive images of the top several miles of the Earth's crust have helped scientists solve the mystery of why Mount St. Helens is located outside the main line of the Cascade Arc of volcanoes.
Earth Sciences
Sep 4, 2018
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Researchers at Washington State University and the University of Idaho have found a new way to estimate how fast magma is recharging beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano. While their findings offer no help in predicting if ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 4, 2018
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Volcanic eruptions such as Mount St. Helens' in 1980 show the explosiveness of magma moving through the Earth's crust. Now geologists are excited about what uplifted granite bodies such as Yosemite's El Capitan say about ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 10, 2017
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Volcanologists are gaining a new understanding of what's going on inside the magma reservoir that lies below an active volcano and they're finding a colder, more solid place than previously thought, according to new research ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 15, 2017
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It's been more than 35 years since the last major eruption of Mount St. Helens. Since that blast, much research has been conducted with scientists learning a great deal about one of the most active volcanoes within the Cascade ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 2, 2016
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The strange pillarlike formation emerged after Crowley Lake reservoir was completed in 1941: stone columns up to 20 feet tall connected by high arches, as if part of an ancient Moorish temple.
Earth Sciences
Nov 20, 2015
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Where do the tremendous amounts of material that are ejected to from huge volcanic calderas during super-eruptions actually originate?
Earth Sciences
Oct 30, 2014
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A Washington State University undergraduate has helped develop a new method for detecting water on Mars. Her findings appear in Nature Communications.
Space Exploration
Oct 3, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A small army of 75 geophysicists is set to converge on Mount St. Helens this weekend to begin final preparations for the equivalent of a combined ultrasound and CAT scan of the famous volcano's internal plumbing. ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 17, 2014
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