how was mount st helens formed

Question

i want to know how mount st helens is formed

Answer 1

Mt. St Helens was formed when God created the world.

Comments

Thats close! Mt. St Helens hasnt always looked the way it did when God created it, its changed because of the shifting of tectonic plates (these are like puzzle peices that make up the crust, or the outer layer of the earth!) These techtonic plates move very slowly, but sometimes they rub up against eachother. This is why we get earthquakes! And when one plate is against another sometimes it slips under the other techtonic plate. Which makes the ground above it raise. And that happened near where Mt. st Helens is, so thats why Mt. St Helens looks the way it does today!

Answer 2

Mount St. Hlens was formed when two plates of the earth's crust, which are called the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate and the North American tectonic plate got too near each other.

The Juan de Fuca plate moved sideways and downward into the mantle underneath the North American plate, causing ground to be pushed up above the two plates and a crack in the earth's surface to be formed.. The molten lava pushed itself into the said crack. Causing a volcano to be formed.

Answer 3

Mt St Helens is a stratovolcano "composite volcano." A stratovolcano is a tall, cone-like volcano built up by many layers of hardened lava, tephra, pumice, and volcanic ash. Stratovolcanoes have a steep slope and explosive eruptions every now and then.