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Ilona Berzups > Spirit Lake logjam (2556). More than 30 years after the eruption of Mount St. Helen you can still see the logjam. The logs are slowly sinking to the bottom of the lake and the size of the jam is getting smaller as time goes by. It looks quite a bit smaller since my last visit a year ago (July 2011).

"Spirit Lake is a lake north of Mount St. Helens in Washington State. The lake was a popular tourist destination for many years until the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. With the eruption and resulting megatsunami, thousands of trees were torn from the surrounding hillside after lake water was displaced 800 feet up the hillside. Lahar and pyroclastic flow deposits from the eruption then blocked the North Fork Toutle River valley at its outlet, raising the surface elevation of the lake by over 200 ft (60 m). The newly raised lake, once it reappeared, was also 10 percent smaller and much shallower." -- Source: Wikipedia

Ilona Berzups > Mount St. Helens Ghost Forest (2544)
"On the morning of May 18,1980, after a century and a quarter of quiescence, a magnitude 5.2 earthquake triggered the explosive eruption of Mount St.Helens. The volcano's northern face collapsed, burying Spirit Lake and the headwaters of the Toutle River beneath hundreds of feet of avalanche debris. The accompanying blast sent winds of 600 mph and 400 to 600 degrees Fahrenheit sweeping across the landscape, leveling forests, vaporizing foliage, and searing soils. When the smoke and ash cleared, more than 240 square miles of forest north of the peak had been felled. A fringe of standing, dead, ash-covered trees formed a ghost forest around the blow down, and the ground was blanketed with tephra and ash." -- Source: USDA Forest Service

Ilona Berzups > Mount St. Helens area (2426). More than 30 years later remnants of downed trees remain in the surrounding areas of Mount St. Helens.

"When the smoke and ash cleared, more than 240 square miles of forest north of the peak had been felled. A fringe of standing, dead, ash-covered trees formed a "ghost forest" around the blow down, and the ground was blanketed with tephra and ash." -- Source: USDA Forest Service

Ilona Berzups > Mount St. Helens area (2401). More than 30 years later remnants of downed tress remain in the surrounding areas of Mount St. Helens.

"When the smoke and ash cleared, more than 240 square miles of forest north of the peak had been felled. A fringe of standing, dead, ash-covered trees formed a "ghost forest" around the blow down, and the ground was blanketed with tephra and ash." -- Source: USDA Forest Service

Ilona Berzups > Another interesting rock formation in Frenchman Coulee at sunrise - a sentry standing alone amongst giant walls of basalt.

Ilona Berzups > Frenchman Coulee near Vantage, WA is part of the Columbia River Basalt Group. "A flood basalt or trap basalt is the result of a giant volcanic eruption or series of eruptions that coats large stretches of land or the ocean floor with basalt lava. Flood basalts have occurred on continental scales (large igneous provinces) in prehistory, creating great plateaus and mountain ranges. Flood basalts have erupted at random intervals throughout geological history and are clear evidence that the Earth undergoes periods of enhanced activity rather than being in a uniform steady state." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_basalt

Ilona Berzups > Taken at 4:20am PDT as the sun slowly rose over the tiny little town of Vantage, WA. I stood at the edge of a cliff on the opposite side of the mighty Columbia River, breathtaking.

Ilona Berzups > "The Coulee exhibits a waterfall near the North Alcove as well as a small stream that flows into the dry bed of the Coulee. The waterfall has been called Frenchman Waterfall, Frenchman's Coulee Waterfall, and Stolp Falls among other names, though consistent record of the actual name is difficult to find." --- WikiTravel

Ilona Berzups > These massive stacks of flood basalt are several stories tall and date back millions of years. Frenchman Coulee near Vantage, WA is part of the Columbia River Basalt Group. "A flood basalt or trap basalt is the result of a giant volcanic eruption or series of eruptions that coats large stretches of land or the ocean floor with basalt lava."

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