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December 28, 2004
Image, click to enlarge MSH04_aerial_crater_dome_with_mount_adams_12-28-04.jpg
Aerial view of Mount St. Helens' crater and new dome, from the northwest. Mount Adams is in the background.
USGS Photograph taken on December 28, 2004, by Jim Vallance and Stephanie Konfal.
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Mount St. Helens' crater and new dome from the northwest.
USGS Photograph taken on December 28, 2004, by Jim Vallance and Stephanie Konfal.
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Looking down on Mount St. Helens' new dome from the northwest.
USGS Photograph taken on December 28, 2004, by John Pallister.
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Nearly vertical view of Mount St. Helens' new dome, from the north.
USGS Photograph taken on December 28, 2004, by Jim Vallance and Stephanie Konfal.
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Mount St. Helens' new dome from the east.
USGS Photograph taken on December 28, 2004, by Jim Vallance and Stephanie Konfal.
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Mount St. Helens' crater and new dome from the northeast.
USGS Photograph taken on December 28, 2004, by Michael Doukas.
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Mount St. Helens' new dome from the northeast, showing fault (one of many on the dome) with the right side of the new dome (north side) becoming higher than the left side of the new dome (south side).
USGS Photograph taken on December 28, 2004, by John Pallister.
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Image, click to enlarge MSH04_dome_uplift_closein_from_NE_12-28-04.jpg
Mount St. Helens' new dome from the northeast, showing fault (one of many on the new dome) with the right side of the new dome (north side) becoming higher than the left side of the new dome (south side).
USGS Photograph taken on December 28, 2004, by John Pallister.
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Image, click to enlarge MSH04_north_end_new_dome_closein_12-28-04.jpg
North end of Mount St. Helens' new dome. View from the northeast.
USGS Photograph taken on December 28, 2004, by John Pallister.
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Top of Mount St. Helens' new dome from the east.
USGS Photograph taken on December 28, 2004, by Jim Vallance and Stephanie Konfal.
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Top of Mount St. Helens' new dome from the southeast.
USGS Photograph taken on December 28, 2004, by Jim Vallance and Stephanie Konfal.
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Aerial, Mount St. Helens' crater and dome from the east.
USGS Photograph taken on December 28, 2004, by Jim Vallance and Stephanie Konfal.
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Aerial, Mount St. Helens' crater and dome from the southeast.
USGS Photograph taken on December 28, 2004, by Jim Vallance and Stephanie Konfal.
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Image, click to enlarge MSH04_aerial_crater_dome_from_SW_12-28-04.jpg
Mount St. Helens' crater and dome from the southwest.
USGS Photograph taken on December 28, 2004, by John Pallister.
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Image, click to enlarge MSH04_dome_from_sugarbowl_12-28-04_bw.jpg
Mount St. Helens' dome from the Sugar Bowl remote camera. Image has been converted to black/white for clarity. Compare with image of December 24, 2004 (below).
USGS Photograph taken on December 28, 2004, by Mike Poland.
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Image, click to enlarge Adams04_mount_adams_from_st_helens_12-28-04.jpg
Mount Adams, Washington, as seen on flight to Mount St. Helens. View is from the west, over the Plains of Abraham.
USGS Photograph taken on December 28, 2004, by Dan Dzurisin.
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Mount Rainier, Washington, as seen on flight to Mount St. Helens. View is from the south.
USGS Photograph taken on December 28, 2004, by Jim Vallance and Stephanie Konfal.
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December 24, 2004
Image, click to enlarge MSH04_dome_from_sugarbowl_12-24-04_bw.jpg
Mount St. Helens' dome from the Sugar Bowl remote camera. Image has been converted to black/white for clarity. Compare with image of December 28, 2004 (above).
USGS Photograph taken on December 24, 2004, by Mike Poland.
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For more Sugar Bowl remote camera images, see Repeat and Annotated Views".
For more images of the Sugar Bowl remote camera, see "Field Crews/Work Images"
December 23, 2004
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Mount St. Helens from the Johnston Ridge Observatory (JRO).
USGS Photograph taken on December 23, 2004, by Mike Poland.
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Image, click to enlarge MSH04_new_dome_uplift_from_NE_12-23-04.jpg
Mount St. Helens' new dome with glacier uplift, viewed from the northeast. The green circle on the left crater wall is lens flare.
USGS Photograph taken on December 23, 2004, by Mike Poland.
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Mount St. Helens' new dome, viewed from the northeast.
USGS Photograph taken on December 23, 2004, by Mike Poland.
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Image, click to enlarge MSH04_new_growth_from_east_12-23-04.jpg
Mount St. Helens' new dome, viewed from the east.
USGS Photograph taken on December 23, 2004, by Mike Poland.
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Image, click to enlarge MSH04_glacier_uplift_from_east_12-23-04.jpg
Mount St. Helens' glacier uplift, viewed from the east. New growth is to the right.
USGS Photograph taken on December 23, 2004, by Marv Couchman.
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Closeup new growth.
USGS Photograph taken on December 23, 2004, by Mike Poland.
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Ice build up on the Sugar Bowl Camera.
USGS Photograph taken on December 23, 2004, by Mike Poland.
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Mount St. Helens' crater and dome, from Sugar Bowl.
USGS Photograph taken on December 23, 2004, by Mike Poland.
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Closeup of Mount St. Helens' dome from Sugar Bowl. Large crack down center of new growth is a fault (one of many on the dome), with the right section becoming higher than the left.
USGS Photograph taken on December 23, 2004, by Mike Poland.
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MSH04_crater_dome_from_JRO_12-23-04.jpg
Mount St. Helens crater and dome from the Johnston Ridge Observatory (JRO). Cropped image converted to black/white for clarity.
USGS Photograph taken on December 23, 2004, by Elliot Endo.
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Image, click to enlarge MSH04_dome_from_JRO_12-23-04.jpg
Mount St. Helens dome from the Johnston Ridge Observatory (JRO).
USGS Photograph taken on December 23, 2004, by Elliot Endo.
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Image, click to enlarge MSH04_dome_from_JRO_closein_12-23-04.jpg
Mount St. Helens dome from the Johnston Ridge Observatory (JRO).
USGS Photograph taken on December 23, 2004, by Elliot Endo.
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Image, click to enlarge MSH04_east_arm_crater_glacier_from_JRO_12-23-04.jpg
East arm of the Crater Glacier. Image taken from Johnston Ridge Observatory (JRO).
USGS Photograph taken December 23, 2004, by Elliot Endo.
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December 19, 2004
Image, click to enlarge MSH04_dome_from_sugarbowl_12-19-04_bw.jpg
Mount St. Helens' dome from the Sugar Bowl remote camera. Image has been converted to black/white for clarity.
USGS Photograph taken on December 19, 2004, by Mike Poland.
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For more Sugar Bowl remote camera images, see Repeat and Annotated Views".
For more images of the Sugar Bowl remote camera, see "Field Crews/Work Images"
December 17, 2004
Image, click to enlarge MSH04_dome_from_sugarbowl_12-17-04_bw.jpg
Mount St. Helens' dome from the Sugar Bowl remote camera. Image has been converted to black/white for clarity.
USGS Photograph taken on December 17, 2004, by Mike Poland.
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For more Sugar Bowl remote camera images, see Repeat and Annotated Views".
For more images of the Sugar Bowl remote camera, see "Field Crews/Work Images"
December 16, 2004
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Mount St. Helens from the northwest. Mount Hood (left) and Mount Jefferson (middle) are on the skyline.
USGS Photograph taken on December 16, 2004, by Willie Scott.
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Mount St. Helens' crater and dome from the northwest.
USGS Photograph taken on December 16, 2004, by Willie Scott.
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Mount St. Helens' dome with new growth from the northeast.
USGS Photograph taken on December 16, 2004, by Willie Scott.
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Mount St. Helens' dome from the east-northeast.
USGS Photograph taken on December 16, 2004, by Willie Scott.
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Image, click to enlarge MSH04_new_growth_from_east_12-16-04.jpg
Mount St. Helens' new dome from the east.
USGS Photograph taken on December 16, 2004, by Willie Scott.
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Image, click to enlarge MSH04_north_new_growth_from_east_12-16-04.jpg
North part of Mount St. Helens' new dome from the east.
USGS Photograph taken on December 16, 2004, by Willie Scott.
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Mount St. Helens' crater and dome from the south.
USGS Photograph taken on December 16, 2004, by Willie Scott.
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South part of Mount St. Helens' new dome.
USGS Photograph taken on December 16, 2004, by Willie Scott.
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Image, click to enlarge MSH04_new_dome_from_west_12-16-04.jpg
Mount St. Helens' new dome from west.
USGS Photograph taken on December 16, 2004, by Willie Scott.
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MSH04_crater_dome_from_JRO_12-16-04.jpg
Mount St. Helens crater and dome from the Johnston Ridge Observatory (JRO).
USGS Photograph taken on December 16, 2004, by Gene Iwatsubo.
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Mount St. Helens new dome from the Johnston Ridge Observatory (JRO). Image converted to black/white for clarity.
USGS Photograph taken on December 16, 2004, by Gene Iwatsubo.
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December 11, 2004
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Aerial view of Mount St. Helens and Mount Rainier.
USGS Photograph taken on December 11, 2004, by John Pallister.
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Aerial view of Mount St. Helens from the north-northeast.
USGS Photograph taken on December 11, 2004, by John Pallister.
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Aerial view of Mount St. Helens' crater and dome from the north.
USGS Photograph taken on December 11, 2004, by John Pallister.
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Aerial view of Mount St. Helens' crater and dome from the northwest.
USGS Photograph taken on December 11, 2004, by John Pallister.
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Image, click to enlarge MSH04_aerial_crater_dome_from_east_12-11-04.jpg
Aerial view of Mount St. Helens' crater and dome from the east.
USGS Photograph taken on December 11, 2004, by John Pallister.
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Mount St. Helens' crater and dome from the east.
USGS Photograph taken on December 11, 2004, by John Pallister.
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Mount St. Helens' dome from the east.
USGS Photograph taken on December 11, 2004, by John Pallister.
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Image, click to enlarge MSH04_nearly_vertical_new_dome_12-11-04.jpg
Nearly vertical view of Mount St. Helens' new dome.
USGS Photograph taken on December 11, 2004, by John Pallister.
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Nearly vertical view of the north end of Mount St. Helens' new dome.
USGS Photograph taken on December 11, 2004, by John Pallister.
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Image, click to enlarge MSH04_dome_from_SW_12-11-04.jpg
Mount St. Helens' new dome from the southwest.
USGS Photograph taken on December 11, 2004, by John Pallister.
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Image, click to enlarge Adams04_aerial_adams_from_the_west_12-11-04.jpg
Mount Adams, Washington, as seen on flight to Mount St. Helens. View is from the west.
USGS Photograph taken on December 11, 2004, by John Pallister.
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Image, click to enlarge Rainier04_aerial_rainier_from_the_south_12-11-04.jpg
Mount Rainier, Washington, as seen on flight to Mount St. Helens. View is from the south.
USGS Photograph taken on December 11, 2004, by John Pallister.
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December 2, 2004
Image, click to enlarge MSH04_aerial_crater_dome_steam_from_WNW_12-02-04.jpg
Aerial view of Mount St. Helens' crater with steaming new section of lava dome.
USGS Photograph taken on December 2, 2004, by Jon Major.
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Image, click to enlarge MSH04_glacier_cracking_southwest_uplift_12-02-04.jpg
Southwest view of glacial uplift.
USGS Photograph taken on December 2, 2004, by Linda Mark.
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