Researchers find evidence for a cold, serpentinized mantle wedge beneath Mt. St. Helens
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - 06:31
in Earth & Climate
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 arc, a North-South chain of volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest that formed above the subducting Juan de Fuca plate.