Watching The Fire Within for the first time tonight…and in opening scenes is Harry Glicken in all his awkward glory. I haven’t seen him in 35 years…but there he is.

He is not addicted to the danger in the way the Krafft’s seemed to be…he was a true scientist and scholar. No doubt he was there to help with understanding the hazards…not sure how he got hooked up with the Kraffts.

I didn’t hear of his death, only 3 years after working with him, until much later…when I worked with another Cascades Volcano Observatory temp service alumnus. I was saddened, but not surprised.

Like watching a ghost who haunts a crime scene…I truly believe he had a wish to assuage his guilt at having escaped St. Helens’ fury.

The footage of St. Helens in early days is worth watching.

Good movie…like volcano porn. But the Kraffts seem more like Team Zisseau than Team Cousteau.

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I met Harry X. Glicken in 1988, when I too had a temporary job working at the Cascades Volcano Observatory.

He was a friendly sort, but nervous …and over lunch one day he told me about being the one who should have died in the St. Helens eruption. I didn’t realize that what I saw before me was the embodiment of survivor guilt. His notorious eccentricity was partly the manifestation of this guilt.

He was a talented volcanologist, had the most impressive and impeccable education and work history, and yet could not find a place at the USGS during the Reagan era. It was then that I began to understand that a career in #volcanology would be a bridge too far from my starting point.

Harry was a brilliant sort, and he was able to secure other opportunities to pursue his passion.

He unfortunately died a few years later in a debris flow from Mt. Unzen in Japan.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Glicken

https://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2016/02/the-short-and-wondrous-career-of-volcanologist-harry-glicken.html

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The #ColumbiaRiverBasalt Group (#CRB) forms a dominant feature across the #PNW.

Dr. Marvin Beeson who taught and conducted research at #PortlandStateUniversity set the stage for understanding the CRB through his pioneering application of geochemistry to understand the evolution, structure, and extent of the CRB.

His research, and that of his many graduate students, led to many important, fundamental breakthroughs in understanding the geology of the CRB and the geologic history of NW #Oregon. He was widely considered the foremost expert on the geology of the Basalts and was widely sought as a geologic consultant by U.S. Geological Survey, state agencies, municipalities, and private sector companies.

In honor of Dr. Beeson, his many colleagues at the #USGS and OR Water Resources this web page was dedicated to publishing his work.

https://or.water.usgs.gov/projs_dir/crbg/sources.html

Vintage Nick Zentner gives a quick tour of the CRB and why it is uniquely impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UBFSXu9UHY

@Sheril

Awesome! I was going to post on Marie Tharp under #LegendsOfGeology but you beat me to it…thanks for getting that on the record here. She was an amazing and inspiring cartographer who lead us to the mechanisms and mechanics of continental drift.

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Freeze, gather and repeat.

Multiple times according to J. Harlen Bretz, or dozens and dozens of times according to Richard Waite.

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Canadian petrologist Norman L. Bowen (developer of Bowen’s Reaction Series), used experiments and observations of natural rocks in the early 1900s to describe the sequence of crystallization of common silicate minerals from a typical basaltic magma undergoing fractional crystallization.

Bowen's Reaction Series is able to explain why certain types of minerals tend to be found together while others are almost never associated.

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Don Swanson was the Scientist in Charge at both the CVO and HVO. Here he is giving informal talk at a Mt St Helens Research Symposium that I crashed in 1987…literally had no right to be there amongst legends. Richard Waitt gave a memorable talk about hydrology and others about soils development in still recently erupted clastic deposits. Later got to work at the CVO…a dream come true.

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John Elliott Allan leads field trip to an outcrop of the Columbia River Basalt Group (member unknown) in the 1960s.

JAE was #Oregon ’s first State #Geologist (in the 1930s) and founder of the Geology Dept. at Portland State University (the U by the Slough) where he taught, advised and wrote numerous books on Oregon Geology and articles for The Ore Bin and other publications into the early 1990s.