1. GEOGRAPHY 5
PROJECT
FIELD TRIPS 1 AND 2
DATE CLIENT
OCT 6, NOV 16-18, 2012 JEANNETTE HERNANDEZ

2. Mormon Rocks
MORMON ROCKS WAS FORMED BY
WIND AND WATER EROSIONS. IT IS
LOCATED ON THE SAN ANDREAS
RIFT ZONE.
MORMON ROCKS ARE COMPOSED
OF SANDSTONE , BUT OVER THE
YEARS, A MIXTURE OF OTHER
ROCKS WERE BLENDED INTO THE
FOUNDATION.

3. Mormon Rocks
continued...
EAST
WEST
THE SAN ANDREAS RIFT ZONE
AND STREAM BED IS LOCATED
NEAR THE CAJON PASS. THE FAULT
IS STRIKE-SLIP ZONE WHERE THE
NORTH AMERICAN PLATE AND THE
PACIFIC PLATE COME TOGETHER.

4. Cinder Hill Volcano
This volcano is a
composite and is
inactive.
LAVA FLOW
The Lava flow is made
of Basaltic Lava.

5. Fossil Falls stream bed
The image shows the
dried stream bed of
Owens Lake that went
through fossil falls.

6. Fossil Falls
Fossil Falls was formed
by the volcanic activity
in the mountain range
and meltwater from
glaciers near the sierra
nevada.

7. Fossil Falls- Metate Holes
and Obsidian Flakes
METATE HOLES WERE CREATED THE OBSIDIAN FLAKES FOUND
BY WATER WHEN DEBRIS HIT IN FOSSIL FALLS WERE LEFT
THE SAME AREA AND WOULD BY THE NATIVES AS SCRAPS
CIRCULATE AGAINST THE ROCK FROM THE TOOLS THEY WOULD
TO CREATE SMOOTH CIRCULAR MAKE FROM THEM, SUCH AS,
HOLES. ARROW HEADS.

8. Fossil Falls- Petroglyph
and House Rings
A Petroglyph is a rock
carving. The one
pictured was created
by native americans.
The house ring was
used as living space
for the native
americans.

9. Mt. Whitney
Mt. Whitney is located
in the Sierra Nevada
Mountain range and
has the highest
elevation of 14,505
feet.

10. Inyo-White Mountains

11. Alluvial Fan

12. Diaz Lake
DIAZ LAKE WAS
FORMED BY THE
1872 LONE PINE
EARTHQUAKE THAT
WAS THOUGHT TO BE
A LEVEL 9.

13. Lone Pine Fault
18 MILES OF
OWEN’S VALLEY
DROPPED 20 FEET
BECAUSE OF THE
THE LONE PINE
EARTHQUAKE OF
1872

14. Manzanar
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 in California'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.
Manzanar (which means "apple orchard" in
Spanish) was identified by the United States
National Park Service as the best-preserved of
the former camp sites, and was designated the
Manzanar National Historic Site.

15. Mono Lake
NEGIT ISLAND
PAOHA VOLCANIC
ISLAND

16. Former Shorelines of
Mono Lake
THE DIFFERENT VEGETATION REPRESENTS
THE FORMER SHORELINES. THE DIFFERENCE IN COLOR
SHOWS WHAT USE TO BE UNDER WATER.

17. Former Shorelines of
Mono Lake Continued...
GOAL FOR NEW
SHORELINE
TUFA TOWERS FORMALLY
UNDER WATER

18. Mono Lake Tufa Towers
Tufa is formed by
the precipitation of
carbonate minerals
from ambient
temperature water
bodies.

19. Panum Crater

20. Convict Lake
THE LAKE CREATION: DURING THE ICE AGE
GLACIERS FORMED THE SIERRA NEVADAS’. OLDEST ROCK FORMATION
THE SIERRA NEVADAS’ PICKED UP ROCKS AS
RIVERS OF ICE MOVED DOWNHILL, MOUNDS
OF RUBLE (MORAINES) WERE DEPOSITED AT
THE ENDS AND ALONG THE SIDES OF
GLACIERS. A RETREATING GLACIER FROM
THE LAST ICE AGE LEFT BEHIND THE
MORAINE THAT DAMMED CONVICT CREEK,
HELPING FORM CONVICT LAKE.

21. Keoughs Hot Springs
The hot
springs were
created from
earthquake
activity. As
water flows
through cracks
created by
earthquakes, it
is heated by
underground
volcanic
activity and
pushed up.

22. June Lake Loop
WATERFALL
SILVER LAKE
GRANT LAKE

23. Owens River

24. Eastern California
Museum
I was very interested in
the old houses that the
people of Manzanar
use to live in. I have
always been a fan of
ghost towns and to
me, this felt like one.

25. Extra Credit
In Transit

26. SOLAR POWER PLANT
SEGS III–VII at Kramer Junction

27. DOPPLER RADAR TOWER
A Doppler radar is a specialized radar that makes use of the Doppler effect to produce velocity data about objects at a distance. It
does this by beaming a microwave signal towards a desired target and listening for its reflection, then analyzing how the frequency of
the returned signal has been altered by the object's motion. This variation gives direct and highly accurate measurements of the radial
component of a target's velocity relative to the radar.

28. GARLOCK FAULT
The Garlock Fault is a left-lateral strike-slip fault running approximately northeast-southwest along the north margins of the Mojave
Desert of Southern California. It runs for much of its length along the southern base of the Tehachapi Mountains.

29. CREOSOTE
BURROWEED GRASS
DESERT VEGETATION
JOSHUA TREE, CRESOTE, BURROWEED GRASS

30. CALIFORNIA AQUEDUCT

31. OWENS DRY LAKE
Owens held significant water until 1924, until much of the Owens River was diverted into the Los Angeles Aqueduct, causing it to
desiccate. Today, some of the flow of the river has been restored, and the lake now contains some water.