Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Alaska: Exceptional pictures from Mount Redoubt Volcanic Eruption-23/3/09


Mud marks the high water mark along the banks of the lower Drift river valley.
Picture Date: March 23, 2009
Image Creator: Read, Cyrus



Flood waters cascading through a gorge carved in the Drift Glacier below the summit of Redoubt.
Picture Date: March 23, 2009
Image Creator: McGimsey, Game




View of the west margin of the Drift Glacier and ash deposits covering the adjacent slopes. The ice gorge carved by flood waters is visibe coursing through the center of the glacier (left middle).
Picture Date: March 23, 2009
Image Creator: Read, Cyrus



Image of ashfall, taken from Tordrillo Mountain Lodge on Judd Lake (just north of Beluga Lake, at the head of the Talachulitna River.) Photograph courtesy of Lel Tone.


Ash haze in Cook Inlet with the summit Mount Spurr visible. AVO/USGS



Flooding caused by the melting of Drift Glacier by the eruption. Flood waters reached as high as 25 feet. AVO/USGS



Ashfall on a lodge on Judd Lake. Lel Tone/USGS

Source of images: (Alaska Volcano Observatory )

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