Physical Geography

Earth Science

Volcano Case Study: Mount St.Helens, USA

Recommended Web Sites

Earth's Active Volcanoes
A clearly presented list of links to the worlds active volcanoes. The volcanoes are broken up by region, making it easy to spot associations between volcanoes in the same general locations. This site is a good starting point for research if you know either the name of the volcano or the part of the Earth where it can be found. For general school project work it is also a good starting point, offering students a good range of volcanoes to research further.

Mt. St. Helen's
A virtual fieldtrip to Mt St.Helens, with excellent photographs, and well written accounts of the eruption, the aftermath, current eruptions and activity.

Mt. St. Helen's
An excellent site produced by the USGS/Cascades Volcano Observatory. it provides an easy to read history of the volcano, an account of the 1980 eruption, numerous photographs and an account of its activity after the eruption until 1986.

Cascade Volcanoes
A good source of photographs of several volcanoes in the Cascade range including Mt. Rainier, Mt. St.Helens and Mt. Adam.

Mt. St.Helens Live Video Feed
A live video camera feed from Mt. St.Helens National Volcanic Monument. The camera is positioned so you see the area blown apart by the 1980 eruption.

Climb Mt. St.Helens
Mount St.Helens is a tourist attraction once again - Want to climb to the top?

Eruption of Mt. St.Helens
A very good source of images, laid out as a chronological case study of the 1980 eruption.

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