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Figure 1. View westward of the steam-and-ash explosion of October 1, 2004. Note the dark-colored ash and white steam emerging simultaneously from a vent through the glacier. Also note the fractured and slightly uplifted glacier ice immediately east of the vent and south of the 1980-1986 lava dome. (USGS photo, October 1, 2004)