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Friday, November 6, 2015

Mount Saint Helens in the News

Here is the article we read today:

http://news.sciencemag.org/earth/2015/11/deep-magma-chambers-seen-beneath-mount-st-helens

Here is another more sensationalized version:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3305503/Could-Mount-St-Helens-erupt-Massive-magma-chamber-volcano-reveal-clues-future-explosions.html

Geologists have discovered the magma chamber beneath Mount St Helens (pictured) is fed by a much larger chamber deeper below the Earth's crust. They said earthquakes around the volcano are a sign of magma pumping from the lower reservoir into the upper one, and this could reveal clues about an impending eruption
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