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Rocio VillarrealGeography 5
Photo Journal
Cinder Hill, Fossil Falls, and Mormon Rocks
April 2,2011
Field Trip #2
April 2, 2011
Cinder Hill
Also known as Red Hill, it is one of 21 active volcanoes in the Coso Volcanic Range. Its last eruption was about 500 years ago.
April 2, 2011
Cinder Hill
Lava flows are extrusive volcanic formations made up of basalt. Basalt is the dark colored lava, and its color was caused by the rapid cooling of the lava when it reached the earth’s
surface.
April 2, 2011
Lava Flows
Yellow Wildflower at Cinder Hill.
April 2, 2011
Fossil Falls
Owens Stream bed near Fossil Falls. Water from Owens Lake used to run through here.
April 2, 2011
Owens Stream Bed
Fossil Falls was sculpted by lava and water about 44o,000 years ago from the result of a violent eruption.
April 2, 2011
Fossil Falls
Metate Holes were made by rocks that got stuck in lava, whirled around and carved a hole.
April 2, 2011
Metate Holes
Obsidian is a black, glass-like, type of rock that Native Americans used to make arrowheads.
April 2, 2011
Obsidian Flakes
Petroglyphs are writings on rocks that were drawn by Native Americans that lived around this area for about 10,000 years. This petroglyph contains a picture of big horn sheep and a Shaman.
April 2, 2011
Petroglyphs
House rings were foundations for Native American homes.
April 2, 2011
House Ring
April 2, 2011
Rattlesnake Weed
April 2, 2011
Bluepine Bush
April 2, 2011
Mormon Rocks
Mormon Rocks is a tilted fault block, made by the San Andreas Fault, which brings together the Pacific Plate with the North American Plate.
April 2, 2011
Mormon Rocks
The Granular structure of Mormon Rocks is made up of sedimentary rock, and its layers show a perfect weather record of how much rain falls every year.
April 2, 2011
Granular Structure
San Andreas fault brings together the Pacific Plate with the North American Plate.
April 2, 2011
San Andreas Rift Zone and Stream Bed
San Andreas Rift Zone Stream bed
The Yaka tree is related to Joshua trees.
April 2, 2011
Yaka Tree
Diaz Lake, Mt. Whitney Interagency Visitors Center, Keoughs Hot Springs, Mono Lake, Convict Lake,
Owens River, Eastern California Museum, and Manzanar
April 15-17, 2011
Field Trip #2
April 15, 2011
Diaz Lake
Diaz lake was made by an 8.0+ earthquake in 1872. During the earthquake, the earth sank and the land started to fill up with water. It is also known as a sag pond.
April 15, 2011
Diaz Lake
Diaz Lake
The Lone Pine Fault is located next to Diaz lake.
April 15, 2011
Lone Pine Fault
Sierra Nevada
Aqueduct
Lone Pine Fault
Near Diaz Lake.
April 15, 2011
Cottonwood Tree
April 15, 2011
Mt. Whitney Interagency Visitors Center
Mt. Whitney is located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Its elevation is 14,505 ft. These mountains were formed by glaciers.
April 15, 2011
Mt. Whitney
Mt. Whitney
Inyo Mountains used to be underwater and were pushed up out of the ocean because of the plate tectonics. They were sedimentary rock but as time passed they began to dry up and it turned into metamorphic rock.
April 15, 2011
Inyo-White Mountains
Inyo-White Mountains
Alluvial Fan located in the Inyo-White Mountains.
April 15, 2011
Alluvial Fan
Photo taken by: Jessica Esparza
Alluvial Fan
April 15, 2011
Keoughs Hot Springs
This stream is a hot spring, water is heated from the fault that lies underneath. When the water is heated, it rises up and runs through a creek.
April 15, 2011
Stream
April 16, 2011
Mono Lake
Mono Lake has 2 islands, Negit and Paoha Island. Negit Island was a volcano and it last erupted about 800 years ago. Paoha Island rose from underneath the lake due to volcanic magma pushing up sediments above the surface of the lake.
April 16, 2011
Mono Lake
Negit IslandPaoha Island
Mono Lake
Mono Lake has been drying over the years, and it started to dry up even faster when Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power started to take the water from the streams that led up to Mono Lake. Today a few of those streams had been restored and allow some water to go back in to Mono Lake.
April 16, 2011
Mono Lake Shorelines
Ancient Shoreline
Old ShorelineRecent Shoreline
April 16, 2011
Swallow
Tufas used to be underwater, they are made up of calcium, carbonate and lime, which were formed when fresh water and salt water meet. It also shows where streams used to meet the lake.
April 16, 2011
Tufa
North America’s newest mountain range. It was made up by volcanoes, in which there are 110 in the area.
April 16,2011
Mono Crater
April 16, 2011
Convict Lake
Convict Lake got its name when convicts were found after they had escaped from prison and later were hung by authorities in 1871.
April 16, 2011
Convict Lake
Convict Lake
Lateral Moraine
Oldest Rock Formation
A terminal is the sediment that was moved from it place by glaciers.
April 16, 2011
Terminal
Terminal
April 16, 2011
Owens River
This benchmark is found next to the Owens River, near Bishop, California.
April 16, 2011
Benchmark
Swallow nests are found underneath this bridge above the Owens River.
April 16, 2011
Owens River with Swallows nests
Swallows Nests
Owens River
Bristlecone trees are about 4500 years old and are the oldest living trees in the world.
April 16, 2011
Inyo-White Mountains with Bristlecones
Inyo-White Mountains
Bristlecones
April 17, 2011
Eastern California Museum
I chose this picture because it is part of a model of what a Japanese Internment camp would look like. Now not very many are still standing.
April 17, 2011
Internment Camp
April 17, 2011
Manzanar
Manzanar was one of ten labor camps in which people of Japanese decent were sent during World War II. About 110,000 men, women, and children lived here.
April 17, 2011
Manzanar War Relocation Center
This is part of what is left of Manzanar. Most of its buildings and artifacts were removed from this camp and were used to build other buildings in the neighboring town, or sent to museums.
April 17, 2011
Manzanar Area
In-Transit Photos
Solar Power Plant
April 2, 2011
Koehn Lake
Desert Playa
April 2, 2011
Doppler Radar Towers are used to measure wind.
Doppler Radar Tower
April 2, 2011
Near Red Mountain, Rand Mining District.
Mine Tailings
April 2, 2011
Garlock Fault
April 2, 2011
California Aqueduct
Mojave Desert Wildflowers
April 2, 2011
April 15, 2011
Cucamonga Alluvial Fan
Cucamonga Alluvial Fan
Desert Vegetation
Creosote Joshua Tree
April 15, 2011
April 15, 2011
Desert Vegetation
Burroweed Grass
April 15, 2011
Owens Dry Lake
Owens Dry Lake
April 15, 2011
SETI Towers
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