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Wednesday, August 2, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon 31 GEOLOGY: Sisters Country is a living laboratory Continued from page 1 shadow of the North Sister, one of Central Oregon’s most impressive volcanoes. As some of his pupils enjoyed a refreshing swim in the moun- tain lake, Cribb commented, “Most of these students have never seen a volcano before. After they go back, they are better students for having been here.” Graduate assistant Tyler Smith echoed Cribb’s feel- ings about the importance of seeing geology in the real world, not just in textbooks. “The best geologists are the ones who have seen the most rocks!” he said. Smith, from Franklin, Tennessee, is immersed in graduate studies that focus on environmental geosystems. One student on the trip who had seen a volcano before is Emily Cunningham, of Knoxville, Tennessee. This is her second trip to Oregon, and she is doing an under- graduate thesis on three volca- nic buttes between Mt. Hood and Mt. Jefferson. She was clearly enthusiastic about this summer’s learning opportu- nity and her ongoing studies of Olallie, Clear Lake, and Pinhead Buttes in the north- ern part of Oregon’s Cascade mountains. Of these, Olallie Butte is the largest of the three. At more than 7,000 feet in eleva- tion, it is also the tallest vol- cano between Mt. Hood and Mt. Jefferson, the two highest volcanoes in Oregon. Olallie Butte is a shield volcano. Shield volcanoes are formed from highly liq- uid lava flows rather than 170 W. 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Referred to as a geol- ogy field course, this educa- tional program gives MTSU students the opportunity to earn undergraduate credits toward their degrees. The three-week course started in Portland; and the class’s first stop was at Mt. Hood, fol- lowed by visits to the areas surrounding Mt. Jefferson and the Three Sisters. Those visits were to be followed by a stop at Newberry National Volcanic Monument and, of course, Crater Lake National Park. The students have had the additional experience of camping amidst the very mountains they came to study. The course will continue with a trip to Mount St. Helens, where the students will have the unique opportu- nity to observe that volcano’s more recent activity and have the opportunity to climb the south rim of the mountain. The last stop on the vulca- nology tour will be at Mount Rainier, and the students will have one last day in the Northwest in Portland before returning to Tennessee. MTSU was established in 1911 as a teachers college in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Today, the school is organized into eight colleges that serve more than 20,000 undergrad- uate students. Additionally, a graduate college offers pro- grams in nearly 40 fields. For his part, Prof. Cribb seems to have a special affin- ity for Sisters, and he indi- cated that he hopes to log even more Sisters time in the future. He also related an interesting encounter while visiting his daughter, a senior — and geology major, of course — at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. He was wearing a Sisters T-shirt, and a Vanderbilt student came up to tell him that she gradu- ated from Sisters High School. 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