Field Journal By: Andre Cypriano

Geography 5

Ms. Schmidt

April 29, 2013

Trip One: Mormon Rocks

Mormon Rocks is an area of sandstone blocks

exposed to the elements through plate

tectonics. Located along the San Andreas

Fault in the San Andreas Rift Zone, you can

see these rocks from the 15 freeway as it

passes through Cajon Pass

Trip One: Granular Rock

Metamorphism is the alteration of a

preexisting rock (the parent rock) due to

heat and pressure caused by burial in the

earth.

Trip One: Stream Bed

Located by Cajon pass where water once

flowed through this area.

Trip One: San Andreas Lift

Pacific plate is moving slowly to the

northwest while all land east of the fault is

moving southwest

Trip One: Cinder Hill

Red Hill, a basaltic cinder cone in the Coso

Volcanic field near Fossil Falls State Park

Trip One: Lava Flow

Lava refers both to molten rock expelled by

a volcano during an eruption and the

resulting rock after solidification and cooling

Trip One: Fossil Falls

All the lava flows at Fossil Falls are basaltic.

The Coso Volcanic Field brought flows from

the north east and later Red Hill, which can

be viewed from Fossil Falls, released the

younger lava. The flows occurred between

400,000 years ago and 10,000 years ag

Trip One: Metate Holes

While varying in specific morphology, metates

adhere to a common shape. They typically

consist of large stones with a smooth

depression or bowl worn into the upper

surface. The bowl is formed by the continual

and long-term grinding of materials using a

smooth hand-held stone

Trip One: Obsidian Rock

It is produced when felsic lava extruded from

a volcano cools rapidly with minimum crystal

growth. Obsidian is commonly found within

the margins of rhyolitic lava flows known

as obsidian flows, where the chemical

composition (high silica content) induces a

high viscosity and polymerization degree of

the lava.

Trip One: House Ring

Used by Native Americans for religious

prayer.

Trip Two

Intermission Slide!!

Trip Two: Mt Witney

Mount Whitney is the highest summit in

the contiguous United States with an

elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m).[1] It is on

the boundary between

California's Inyo and Tularecounties

Trip Two: Orographic Effect

Orographic effect occurs when an air mass

approaches a mountain range and is rapidly

forced upward, causing any moisture to cool

and create precipitation in the form of rain

or snow.

Trip Two: Inyo Moutins

The Inyo Mountains are a short mountain

range east of the Sierra Nevada mountains in

eastern California in the United States.[1] The

range separates the Owens Valley to the west

with Saline Valley to the east, extending for

approximately 70 mi

Trip Two: Diaz Lake

The lake was formed by the 1872 Lone Pine

earthquake on Tuesday, March 26

Trip Two: Lone Pine Fault

he Great Lone Pine earthquake was one of

the largest earthquakes to hit California

in recorded history. The quake struck on

March 26, 1872 and its epicenter was

near Lone Pine

Trip Two:Mono Lake

shallow saline soda lake in Mono

County, California, formed at least 760,000

years ago as a terminal lake in a basin that

has no outlet to the ocean.

Trip Two: Mono Coast line

The shoreline continues to recede.

Trip Two: Tufa Formations

Tufa is a variety of limestone, formed by

the precipitation of carbonate minerals from

ambient temperature water bodies.

Trip Two: Burn area

Burn area from volcanic activity.

Trip Two: Grant Lake

Grant Lake is located 11 miles north of

Mammoth Lakes on Highway 158. From Hwy

395, go East on Hwy 158 (June Lake Loop).

Trip Two: Moraine

A moraine is any glacially

formed accumulation of unconsolidated

glacial debris (soil and rock) which can occur

in currently glaciated and formerly glaciated

regions, such as those areas acted upon by a

past glacial maximum.

Trip Two: Silver Lake

It’s a lake and they call it Silver Lake.

Trip Two: Waterfall at Silver

Lake

Picture does not display water well but trust

me its there !

Trip Two: Convict Lake

Convict Lake is a lake in the Sherwin

Range of the Sierra

Nevada in California, USA. It is known for its

fishing and the dramatic mountains

(including Mount Morrison) that surround the

lake. Its surface lies at an elevation of

7,850 ft

Trip Two: Eastern Museum

Lots of cool artifacts, could not fined any

hemp medication or sativa related ointments.

Trip two: Manzanar Camp

Manzanar is most widely known as the site of

one of ten camps where over

110,000 Japanese

Americans were incarcerated during World

War II. Located at the foot of the Sierra

Nevada inCalifornia's Owens Valley between

the towns of Lone Pine to the south

and Independence to the north, it is

approximately 230 miles (370 km) northeast

of Los Angeles

Mixed Pictures from the trip

http://www.summitpost.org/mormon-rocks/270028

http://csmres.jmu.edu/geollab/fichter/MetaRx/meta

simple.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andreas_Fault

http://geology.about.com/library/bl/tours/blfoto_cades

ert_redhilplus.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_Falls

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsidian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Whitney

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_Orographic_Effectshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inyo_Mountains

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tufahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convict_Lake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzanar

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