Geography 5 lab final

1. Mormon Rocks: is formed by the San Andrea Fault whereas the two tectonic plates
Which the pacific plate is going north and the American Plate is going south.
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Mormon
rocks

2. Granular structure: are composed of
sedimentary rocks
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3. The stream bed is where the water use to pass but due to the
seasons dried up which the photo shows the dried stream
bed.
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Stream bed Mormon
rocks

4. San Andreas Rift Zone is the boundary
between the pacific and the north American
plate which is between the san Gabriel and
san Bernardino mountains.
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5. Cinder Hill is an Cinder volcanoe. It is
one of the smallest out of the three.
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Cinder hill

6. The lava flow is made up of extrusive rock. It is
from the eruption made up of silica.
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Lava flow

7. Fossil falls which are made up of basalt rock which seen are
smooth because they were caused by when water went over
the basaltic rock. It was formed from an eruption.
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8. The metate holes were formed from pebbles going
over the rocks overtime from the river which happen
to create holes that are circles.
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Metate holes

9. The flake in my hand is an obsidian flake where tribes
use to create tools for their arrow heads. The flake is
very sharp and can almost cut your hand.
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Obsidian flakes

10. The drawings are made from native Americans who
shared the way they viewed their life. It was a ritual
and a symbol for them to draw petroglyphs.
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Petroglyphs

11. This photo is a small house ring where the native
Americans used to live in where they migrated during
the varies seasons.
House ring

12. Mt.Whitney elevation is 14,494 feet. The significance is the U
shape around the mountain which was caused by a glacier.
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Mt.whitney

13. The orographic effect is the u
shaped formed by glaciers.
U shape
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14. The Inyo-White mountains separate
Owens valley and saline valley.
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Inyo-White
Mountains
Alluvial
fan

15. Diaz lake was created by an earthquake which dropped down and a
spring was created next to the lone pine fault. It was one of the biggest
earthquakes recorded from California. It was created in the year 1872.
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Diaz lake

16. The lone pine fault was one of the biggest earthquakes
created in California of 1872. It created a lake after beyond
that hill in Diaz lake. The arrow is showing the Alabama hills
which was created by the fault.
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Lone Pine Fault

17. Manazar
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Guard
Shack
Plaques

18. Manzanar was during world war 2 fight which spread propaganda through the
Japanese. Society was afraid of getting bombed which they kept the Japanese as
slaves. They made them build houses and do all their dirty work. They were afraid
and afraid for them and their safety.
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Guard
shack
plaques
plaques

19. Mammoth area where they cut down the
trees because of bark beetle.
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Bark beetle

20. Crawly lake where as you can see the low reservoir drought is
the worst in history of California. It is also the water supply for
California.
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Crawly lake

21. This is Mono Lake which the first shoreline is the ancient shore line right next
to the hills. The old shoreline is where all the bushes are and vegetation use
to be when they grew crops. The current shoreline is where you enter in the
water.
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Current
shoreline
Old
shoreline
Ancient
shoreline

22. The arrow to the left is the
volcanoes island.
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Negit volcanoe
island
Paoha island

23. The tufa rock limestone, from calcium in warm water. It
represents a fossil springs into tufa towers., forming long lines
with long faults. It is two times as salty. They were created
under the water.
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Tufa
formations

24. This is the glacieate valley and marine. It was created by a
glacier which is a u shape and created debris and cranium.
The elevation is 6,842 at 37 North and 119 West.
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25. Convict lake was created by a glacier which the plate tectonics pushing up. It was
carved out by glacier ice with the glacier moraines. The lateral moraines is the
sediment that run along the glacier which can go from top to bottom. The oldest
rock formation is dating back from 400 million years ago in the sierra
Nevada's at the top of the mountain.
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Waterfall
Lateral
moraine
Oldest rock
formations

26. The terminal moraine is the
sediment farthest from the glacier.
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Teriminal
Moraine.

27. The Keoughs hot springs are the largest spring in the eastern
side of Nevada's. It is warmed up by volcanic lava from the
top to the bottom.
Hot spring in
Keoughs
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28. This is the grant lake and murrians.
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Grant lake
Moraines

29. Silver lake and the frozen waterfall.
waterfall
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30. The erratic boulder rock
Erratic boulder
rock
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31. At the eastern California Museum the egg interested me
because they don’t know what animal what the egg is from.
The lady told me they drained out the eggs and till this day
they have no idea
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Egg that is
unidentified

32. Cool photo of me
walking on water