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Airborne over Mt. Rainier, they studied a new break, a vertical surge, in a glacier 10,000 to I ,OOO,OOO years old. To the educated eye that break indicated a hot spot, possible volcanic action brewing in a vaulted monument. Where the Columbia flowed across eastern Washington some I ,500 years ago there was a trough pitted with dry falls and broken plunge basins. West, on San Juan Island was a IOO year old lime quarry, depleted, but once a source in the reconstruction of San Francisco. So they scouted the Pacific Northwest - PSU students in a Cessna Super Skymaster classroom Aerial geography 407 was part of a two-year research program granted by the National Science Foundation to David Smith, assistant professor of geography and class pilot. It was the only class of its kind. And if proven effective as a teaching platform, out of it may come the adoption of aerial courses at institutions throughout the country.