Let's Explore Alaska and get Connected!: All things with enough heat and time...

After viewing the first three videos of the TD Resources section my mind wonders yet again. Desecration's of Holy sites litter our nation. Thank God (the holy power of your choice) the people are finally having a voice that government officials are BEGINNING to listen to. I also enjoyed the story of Maui catching the great fish that turns into the Hawaiian islands.

I took a class this last summer and learned of a sacred place of the Tlingit right here in Auke Bay that has been mostly lost. I believe it is Indian Cove that was once a great herring spawning ground and the Indian Point peninsula is a sacred place for the local Tlingit people. Both places show the impact of non-cultural development. The herring beds are gone.

Explain:
The San Andreas fault is a Strike-Slip and in places, Thrust faults. This is the major sources of earthquakes along the left coast of the U.S., however, volcanic activity is not associated with this type of plate boundary. The Subduction zone of the pacific plate along the Aleutian islands is a volcanic nursery and equally responsible for earthquakes in Alaska.

Extend:
Spirit Lake was just another place to go camp... Mt. Saint Helens was just another peak in the cascades until May 18, 1980..........................Watch the eruption

I was at spring football practice going into my sophomore year at Tumwater High School. We saw the cloud of dust rising to the south, the coaches new what had happened and sent us home. We only got a dusting of ash, our friends to the south received from inches to feet depending on location... 57 souls were lost.

The formation of Mt. Saint Helens and the Cascade Range is similar to the Aleutians. A "small" plate called the Juan de Fuca plate is sub-ducting under the North American plate. The result is the same, volcanoes and earthquakes!