GEOGRAPHY 5 FIELD TRIP

Sarita Mc Gowan

Wed 5-6:50

Fall 2012

MORMON ROCKS

Granular structure

San Andreas Rift Zone located in the stream bed

TRANSIT

Cucamonga Alluvial Fan, they are debris flow areas where gravity carries water down cutting ridges in the canyons

Doppler Radar Tower which measures the wind

CINDER HILL

Cinder Cone Volcano, erupted 500 yrs ago with white pumus stone and the red stone is mined for track fields

Lava Flows Intrusive and extrusive, lava flows hit the water of the Owens River

FOSSIL FALLS

Stream bed at Fossil Falls of Owens River

Owens River Bed flowed through here at Fossil Falls, which was formed by the lava

hitting the river water

Metate holes formed by little pebbles trapped by river water

MORE FOSSIL FALLS

Obsidian Flakes from the Native Americans that used this area to prepare

their arrowheads

Petroglyph created by Native Americans that occupied this area

and is a drawing in stone

House rings formed by Native Americans to provide temp shelter

MT WHITNEY INTERAGENCY VC

Mt Whitney, way way in the back, clouds rolled in, and glacier forming mountains in the Sierras, U shaped formed by ice

and glaciers

Inyo White Mountains, V shaped by water and less snow and rain

Alluvial Fan

LAKE DIAZ

Lake Diaz created by a earthquake in 1872

Lone Pine Fault is at the bottom along the Sierra’s , forming Diaz Lake after the big earthquake.

DIAZ LAKE SPECIAL VISITOR

Back by the wood pile is a coyote!Garlock Fault , 2nd largest fault in

California

MANZANAR

Camp where the Japanese were taken in 1942 during the war

Guard Shacks at Manzanar

Manzanar Plaques

MANZANAR CONT…

The area where the buildings stood at Manzanar and the Guard road

After the Japanese inmates build the buildings they put their names here

TRANSIT SOME MORE

Windmill blade

Joshua Tree

Playa – Dry lake bed

LA Aqueduct

EASTERN CALIFORNIA MUSUEM

My Interest!Native American

Cradleboard

MONO LAKE

Tufa formations, created by underwater springs that are the result of the

combination of minerals in fresh water and salt water, when the calcium in the

freshwater spring meets the carbonates in the lakes salt water, a

calcium carbonate deposit precipitates our and solidifies over the years into

rocky towers.

The Islands the small black one on the left in back is a volcano. Negit Isalnd is the volcanic cinder cone,

and the nesting ground for California Gulls. Paoha is the flat white island which has hot spring

vents.

MONO LAKE CONT..

Former Shoelines, you tell by the different vegitation and not much will grow because of all the salt, stata exsits here too.

Tufas are now exposed as to once being underwater.

Former shoelines…

CONVICT LAKE

A retreating glacier from the last ice age of 10,000 years ago left behind the

moraine that dammed Convict Lake

These red rocks are the oldest stones and were formed

underneath the surface and then were pushed out by

glaciers

JUNE LAKE

Entering June Lake Loop Grant Lake and the Moraines on each side

Grant Lake the other end

JUNE LAKE LOOP MORE

Beautiful Grant Lake Silver Lake Waterfall

SILVER LAKE

Silver Lake boats upside down for winter

Slick polished granite Silver Lake