1. GEO-5 PHOTO JOURNAL
Juan Carlos Lopez
Professor Schmidt
Geography 5 Lab
Spring Semester 2012

2. CINDER HILL IS A CINDER CONE VOLCANO BECAUSE OF THE VOLCANIC DEBRIS THAT
ACCUMULATES AROUND AND DOWNWARD FROM ITS VOLCANIC VENT.

3. THESE LAVA FLOWS WERE MADE FROM THE COOLING LAVA THAT RAN
DOWN FROM THE VOLCANO.

4. THIS IMAGE DISPLAYS A DRIED UP STREAM BED NEAR FOSSIL FALLS.

5. FOSSIL FALLS IS A DRIED UP WATERFALL WHICH
WAS FORMED BY THE MELT WATERS FROM
GLACIERS IN THE SIERRA NEVADAS WHICH
FLOWED INTO THE OWENS RIVER.

6. FOSSIL FALLS IS LOCATED IN INYO
COUNTY, CA.

7. THE METATE HOLES WERE FORMED BY THE
WATER FLOW WHICH ALLOWED DEBRIS TO
CUT HOLES INTO THE ROCKS.

8. OBSIDIAN FLAKES ARE NATURALLY FORMED
VOLCANIC GLASS THAT WERE USED BY NATIVE
AMERICANS AS TOOLS DUE TO THEIR SHARP
EDGES.

9. PETROGLYPHS ARE PICTOGRAM IMAGES CARVED
ON ROCKS BY THE PREHISTORIC NATIVE
AMERICANS LIVING IN THE COSO DESERT REGION.

10. DUE TO THE FACT THAT NATIVE AMERICANS
MIGRATED SEASONALLY, THEY WOULD BUILD
THESE RINGS TO BE USED AS LIVING AREAS, AS
WELL AS REMINDER OF WHERE THEY STAYED AT
WHEN THEY RETURNED.

11. MORMON ROCKS GOT ITS NAME FROM MORMON
SETTLERS WHO MOVED FROM UTAH TO SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA, USING THESE ROCKS AS THEIR
LANDMARK. THESE ROCKS GOT THEIR FORM DUE
TO THE SPILTTING OF THE NORTH AMERICAN AND
PACIFIC PLATE.

12. MORMON ROCKS IS COMPOSED OF
SEDIMENTARY ROCK OVERTIME.

13. THE STREAM BED IS PART OF THE SAN ANDREAS
RIFT ZONE THAT SEPREATES BOTH THE NORTH
AMERICAN AND PACIFIC PLATES.

14. DIAZ LAKE WAS CREATED AS A RESULT OF THE
BIG EARTHQUAKE OF 1872 WHICH CAUSED THE
LAND TO SINK.

15. THE EARTHQUAKE OF 1872 CAUSED THE
DESTRUCTION OF MANY NEARBY TOWNS.