This Volcano Pushed a Quarter Million Logs into a Lake!

Paleontologist Dr. Kurt Wise talks about how the eruption of Mount St. Helens resulted in a quarter million logs being shoved into Spirit Lake, where many still remain floating today. From the documentary "Is Genesis History?" Watch the full film on YouTube.

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[howardgustafson-oiec]

I was the last person to climb Mount St. Helens two days before eruption in May 1980. I worked around the police blockades and headed around St. Helens to s point just below cryptodome climbed at that point snow and ash, laid across cryptodome and could feel heat and run lings like a pregnant mom. Climbed to top and looked in on small cinder cone center releasing gas. Incredible experience for a student geologist. Two days later the USGS tech was on cryptodome planting geophones when the eruption occured atomizing the technician in a cubic mile of material blowing into the atmosphere

[denniscliffton]

I too survived the May 18, 1980 eruption. I and my cousin had camped the night b4 just 22 miles SW of the Mountain. We had just packed up after breakfast, loaded our packs onto our Dirt bikes, and at 8:32 am All Hell broke loose. As a 13 yr old boy (cousin was 11), I truly believed I would not see another day! We raced our bikes the 10 or so miles to his parents place, ran in screaming as the sky turned to night, ...his parents thought we had come home during the night...they had no idea it was nearly 9 am, until they turned on the news! I remember every moment of that event, and days following...eerily similar to "The Day After", for those of you who grew up Gen X, and remember that Movie!

[J-gu]

From the Philippines here, I went there in the US to see Mt. St Helens in 2005, so cold up there, but beautiful! ❤

[gapeachnw]

My dad use to fish at Spirit lake.
We have lived through all her eruptions.
It’s amazing.

[johnpick]

I flew over MT Saint Helens 4 years after the eruption and the devastation was incredible. We flew over the devastation for about 20 minutes at 400 mph.

[silasbucur]

Prayers out to West NC right now for Hurricane Helene. Water really is destructive, and can change the world in minutes

[rew]

I am blessed enough to get to see things like this everyday!

In the Southeast some people make big money bringing up the old Cypress logs from the swamp bottoms they make beautiful furniture with them

[jacobreisser]

These logs would have picked up some good colours from being in the water for so long. The timber would be quite valuable.

[rosebudadkins]

I went to see that area in 2005. It was unbelievable the destruction. I had an encounter with our hairy brothers”Sasquatch” in early evening there. I have never gone back. 😊

[nicholasjay]

So, it could be reasonable that Noah created the timeless sport of Logrolling.

[SenatorBlutarsky]

We have petrified wood-forests (under ground) here in the desert consisting of trees that only grow in Tropical conditions...

[ronald]

I'm a US Army Artillery Veteran. I served right after the Mt St Hellens, and I remember our Training Exercise in the Yakama Firing Center, in 1983... We had daily reminders to "thoroughly clean the Air Filters on your Vehicles (the main Vehicles were M110A2 & my M577A2), or replace them if necessary" were our Orders... Track & Wheeled Vehicles, designed for reliable usage in combat‼️💯‼️💯‼️

[BonnieBlair-zmuu]

I have a framed🖼️ Sunset Magazine picture from the 1970's of Spirit Lake. TY for this information.ℹ️ I still reflect on how dramatically Mt St Helens changed and the elderly man and his 🐈❤😺🙏 cats and other people who Mort. ☠️ Let light perpetual shine upon them ALL, forever ❤✝️😇 in heaven.🏞️✨🕊️🛐

[scouterstu]

The recent hurricane(s) in some areas has dramatically and disastrously changed the landscape so severely its posdible to imange what the Flood would do the earth. It would be literally change the entire topographical surface of the earth,

[DTWMTX]

There are companies that recover those old growth timber. VERY valuable commodity ❗️❗️❗️

[daphneraven]

it would be interesting to be able to discern what species some of those logs are; Because chances are different species, grow in different places around the world, and some of those logs would’ve ended up in some strange places, relative to the point of origin.

Thank you for this video. It’s awesome.❤

[firecloud]

I used to camp at Spirit Lake. It was so beautiful. The lake bottom was covered in pumice from previous eruptions of the mountain.

[TREVORALLEN-tlyt]

Not to mention all of the fossilised remains of all the animals and people found in one sedimentary layer.

[tracyhasty]

I went to a science convention and a geologist, who was at St Helens described some logs as fossilized. He said he hated to use the term, but that's what happened....