Geography 5Christian AlcantarApril 29th 2013

FIELD JOURNAL

Field Trip One Field Trip two• Mormon Rocks

• Cinder Hill

• Fossil Falls

• Mt. Whitney Interagency Visitors Center

• Diaz Lake• Manzanar• Mammoth Area• Mono Lake• Panum Crater• Convict Lake• Keoughs Hot Springs• June Lake Loop• Eastern California

Museum

In Transit• Solar Power Plant

• Playa

• Doppler Radar Tower

• Garlock Fault

• Joshua tree, creosote, and Burroweed grass

• California Aquaduct/Los Angeles Aquaduct

• Owens Dry Lake

FIELD TRIP ONE

Mormon Rocks

Mormon Rocks are located in the Cajon Pass, and were named after Mormon Settlers. They are made up of sandstone and the holes on the rocks are produced by the heat and cold the rocks have been exposed to over the years.

Holes

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Granular structure of Mormon Rocks

In this image, we have a closer look of the sandstone that make up Mormon rocks.It has a sand paper texture and we can see some layers the rock has. This layers show the different natural events it has undergone.

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Stream Bed

This image shows the Stream Bed by Mormon Rocks. It used to have water running Through the Cajon Pass, now is all dried up. The arrow shows the direction the water Flowed in before.

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San Andreas Rift Zone

This image shows the San Andreas Rift Zone located at the Cajon Pass. It was created by The southern segment of San Andreas fault.

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Cinder Hill

Cinder Hill, a balsatic cinder cone in the Coso Volcanic field near Fossil Falls StatePark. Activity in the Coso field dates from as recently as 500 years ago, which is whyThere is obsidian and other minerals around the area.

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This image shows the lava that hardened in the Coso volcanic field. Lava flow is made out of magma.

Fossil Falls

Fossil Falls is located in Inyo County and is visited by people for its unique geographicalFeatures. The volcanic activity in the mountain range and meltwater from glaciers near theSierra Nevada were part of the creation of the falls.

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Metate Holes

This image shows a Metate Hole one of the unique features of Fossil Falls. They are all over Fossil Falls and were created by the water when debris would hit the same area and cir-Culate against the rock to create this smooth circular holes.The native people would useThe holes to make their food in as well.

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Stream Bed

This image shows the dried stream bed of Owens Lake that went through Fossil falls.Two of the reasons it is dry now is due to the lava that flowed through the lake that dive-Rted the water in a different direction. Also, in the early 20th century the city of Los An-Geles diverted the water from the lake into their aquaducts which dried up Owens lake.

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Obsidian Flakes

In this image I circled pieces of the obsidian flakes that are on the ground of Fossil Falls. The natives that lived in this area would make tools such as arrowsHeads utilizing this type of rocks. The flakes represent the left overs of such activityPerformed by the natives.

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Petroglyph

This is an image of a Petroglyph that was created by a native many years ago. In the Picture there is big horned sheep and a shaman (medicine man). This is the last in the Area to stay preserved, but not sure for how long.

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House Ring

This image shows the House Ring. The rock outlines the living space of the nativesWhere they would live during the winter.

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FIELD TRIP TWO

Mt. WHITNEY INTERAGENCY VISITORS CENTER

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MT. WHITNEY

This arrow is pointing to Mt. Whitney. It has the highest elevation of 14,505 feet, and It is in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.

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INYO-WHITE MOUNTAINS

The Inyo-White Mountains are the rain shadow of the Sierra, in the Sierra Nevada. An interesting fact about this Mountains is that they were once under the ocean, but due toPlate tectonics they raised up.

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ALLUVIAL FAN

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LAKE DIAZ

Lake Diaz also called a Sag Pond was created after an earthquake because the land sank.

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LONE PINE FAULT

The Lone Pine Fault is seen at the base of the hill, and it was caused by an earthquakeIn 1872.

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KEOUGHS HOT SPRINGS

This hot creek is heated by underground volcanic activity. Some water can be too hotTo touch , however the water here was warm and clear.

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MAMMOTH REST AREA

At this forest many of the trees are being cut down due to a plague of bark beetles.

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MONO LAKE

MONO LAKE

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Paoha Island

Negit Island

This is an image of the two islands in Mono Lake: Negit and Paoha Island. Paoha Island is a volcanic island and is younger than Negit. Negit is a volcanic cone and dark in color Compared to Paoha.

FORMER SHORELINES

Ancient shoreline

Old shorelinePresent day shoreline

This image shows the different shorelines Lake Mono has undergone. The ancient shoreline Shows how massive the Lake was thousands of years ago. The old shoreline shows how Big it was before the divertion, and the present shoreline is how it is today.

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TUFA

The arrow is pointing at a Tufa. They are former lake lever and are made out of calciumFrom the springs that flow up through the lake bottom, and bonds with carbonates in The lake water. Together they form calcium-carbonate a type of limestone.

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MONO CRATERS

Mono craters are N.America’s newest mountain range.

CONVICT LAKE

This is convict lake. It got its name after a dramatic shootout in September 1871After a group of 29 men broke out of the state penitentiary in Carson City, Nv.Six made it to this site, more than 200 miles away. Tracked here by a posse, the Convicts killed Robert Morrison, the county sheriff, and Mono Jim, a Paiute IndianGuide. The brackets show the oldest rock formation.

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Oldest rock formation

JUNE LAKE LOOP/ GRANT LAKE

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Lateral and Terminal moraines

This image shows the lateral and terminal morains in the mountains, which were carvedOut by a glacier pushing it outward thus creating the moraines.

MORAINES/WATERFALL

Frozen Waterfall

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SILVER LAKE

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EASTERN CALIFORNIA MUSEUMC. Alcantar

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This was my favorite piece of history in the museum. It’s a native hand-made baby carrier.The left picture shows Helen Keith holding on the carrier baby Clyde Sam In 1914. OverallIt was hard to pick a favorite piece, since there are hundreds of wonderful artifacts in the Museum to choose from.

MANZANAR

The image on the left is the main entrance plaque into Manzanar war relocation center. TheImage on the right is the guard shack and the bottom image shows what Manzanar was like.

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IN TRANSIT

SOLAR POWER PLANT

This large power plant is just North of Cramer Junction. It produces most of the Commercial solar energy.

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DOPPLER RADAR TOWER

The arrow is pointing at the Doppler Radar Tower along highway 395. The tower is used to collect data from the surroundings to make weather predictions.

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JOSHUA TREE

This image shows a Joshua tree which is native of California Dessert

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LOS ANGELES AQUEDUCT

This is the image of the Los Angeles Aqueduct that can be seen while driving onHighway 395. It is important to point out that this aqueduct affects and affected some ofThe places we visited along our trips.

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OWENS DRY LAKE

Owens Lake was dried up by the city of Los Angeles. Now, the dryness of the land is Causing health problems among the people that live near the area because of theDust storms. Due to this issue, the city of Los Angeles has installed sprinklers to keep the dust down, yet the problem still persists.

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