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Guide to the Mount Saint Helens Eruption Moving Image Collection March-May 1980

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Title Guide to the Mount Saint Helens Eruption Moving Image Collection March-May 1980
Subject Roadblocks (Police
methods); Survival after airplane
accidents, shipwrecks, etc.; Volcanic ash, tuff,
etc.; Volcanoes—Washington
(State)—Saint Helens, Mount; Washington (State); Moving Images; Environmental Conditions
Description The collection consists of copies of field tapes and studio reporting of the series of eruptions at Mount Saint Helens in Washington state which began in March 1980 and culminated in the eruption of May 18, 1980.; Historical Note; Mount St. Helens, about 50 miles northeast of Portland, Oregon, is a composite volcano with a steep-sided, somewhat symmetrical cone made up of ash and lava in alternating layers. It has been active many times during the last two centuries,...
Publisher Oregon Historical Society,
Research Library
Date 1980-03/1980-05
Rights The collection is open to the public for reference viewing.; The material has been copyrighted. Requests for reproductions must be
sent to KATU-TV, Portland, Oregon.
Type Collection collection
Identifier http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv84482
Language eng
Format 18 videocassettes
Coverage March-May 1980

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