24 years ago right now. At 8:22 a.m. on May 18, 1980 the landscape in the photo above was shattered and transformed into something new. [Mac Net Journal]
I am pleased that someone else recognized this event. I was in California on May 18th, but experienced one ash fall that summer while out at Willipa Bay. Five years later, I was working in the blast zone and on the Toutle River, looking at the river deposits produced by the subsequent floods. During this work, I found sedimentary structures produced by antidunes, which ultimately led to my dissertation.
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