Mt St Helens
Mount Saint Helens is located in Southern Washington. ... Mt. St. Helens is a composite cone, also called stratovolcanoes, which are very large. ... Mount Saint Helens erupted. ... Including one eighty year old man who refused to leave his home, which he had lived in for fifty years, on the side of Mt. St. Helens. ... After the big eruption, the northern side of Mt. St. Helens was said to look like the surface of the moon. ... Hundred years from now, a new forest will be g rowing on the north slope of Mount Saint Helens. ... For example, there are many places on Mt. St. Helens that today still look as bleak as the days after the big eruption. ... Mount St. Helens was explosive because the magma was viscous (sticky) and the gas could not escape until it was in the throat of the volcano.