Wednesday, August 2, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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GEOLOGY: Sisters
Country is a living
laboratory
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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
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Led by Prof. Warner Cribb (far right), aspiring vulcanologists from Middle
Tennessee State University learn about the volcanoes of Central Oregon.
explosive ones. As a result, a
shield volcano typically has
gently sloping flanks, giv-
ing it the appearance of a
shield lying on the ground.
Olallie Butte, however, is an
exception in that is unusually
steep-sided. During the high-
country snow season, Olallie
Butte is the snow-covered
knob-like peak visible north
of Mt. Jefferson. The peak is
mostly on the Warm Springs
Indian Reservation.
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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