Show GEOLOGIST FINDS TRACES OF VANISHED MOUNTAIN A U TOP professor Pro festor says saya superb peak feet high once towered above cascade range in oregon portland ore rising to a height of at least east feet a superb mountain once towered above aboe that part of the cascade range in oregon which is now marked by the three sisters peaks edidin T hodge professor of economic geology of the university of oregon discovered the ancient mout mountain etain while alle making a scientific study of tile the tobo topography graphy of the region the professor has bained the vanished peak mount multnomah nomah and has carried ills his envisioned exploration of it so BO far as aa to be able to picture it bt at a magnificent cone created in the oligocene a age e by intermittent eruptions the rho great eminence collapsed either through a tremendous explosion like the one that decapitated mount kra katau batau in the east indies or through the sinking of the underlying structure long befaro man arrived to scale it says hodge of the mountain left a caldera bight miles in diameter which may litter later have filled with water but the lake like the mountain it succeeded was destined to pass from tile tho scene rivers from froin without tore down its walls and tile the water ran off leaving lealnd a valley by this time finds professor hodge the erstwhile site of mountain and lake enlarged was enjoying a moist warm climate and camels and diminutive horses grazed there the peace and quiet ot of this tranquil yale vale however hotter er was not to last volcanic action was resumed and peaks were wera thrown up namely Bl middle Iddle south sisters black crater crate mount scott and lesser up thrusts forming the cascade range they were imposing but underwent a glacial period on this historic battleground of the elements tile the oregon fault block again gave way leveling the mountains but still again volcanic action ansu ensued J bringing into being belknap peak 1 with its great expanses expanse of lava and smaller flows around the baso base ol 01 south sister |