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Image: MSH80 mudline muddy river with USGS scientist 10-23-80

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Description: (copied description from USGS site): Nearly 135 miles (220 kilometers) of river channels surrounding the volcano [Mt. St. Helens] were affected by the lahars of May 18, 1980. A mudline left behind on trees shows depths reached by the mud. A scientist (middle right) gives scale. This view is along the Muddy River, southeast of Mount St. Helens.
Title: MSH80 mudline muddy river with USGS scientist 10-23-80
Credit: http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/Lahars/description_lahars.html
Author: Lyn Topinka, USGS
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