geography 5 field trip sarita mc gowan
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fall 2012 Mono LakeTRANSCRIPT
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GEOGRAPHY 5 FIELD TRIP
Sarita Mc Gowan
Wed 5-6:50
Fall 2012
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MORMON ROCKS
Granular structure
San Andreas Rift Zone located in the stream bed
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TRANSIT
Cucamonga Alluvial Fan, they are debris flow areas where gravity carries water down cutting ridges in the canyons
Doppler Radar Tower which measures the wind
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CINDER HILL
Cinder Cone Volcano, erupted 500 yrs ago with white pumus stone and the red stone is mined for track fields
Lava Flows Intrusive and extrusive, lava flows hit the water of the Owens River
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FOSSIL FALLS
Stream bed at Fossil Falls of Owens River
Owens River Bed flowed through here at Fossil Falls, which was formed by the lava
hitting the river water
Metate holes formed by little pebbles trapped by river water
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MORE FOSSIL FALLS
Obsidian Flakes from the Native Americans that used this area to prepare
their arrowheads
Petroglyph created by Native Americans that occupied this area
and is a drawing in stone
House rings formed by Native Americans to provide temp shelter
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MT WHITNEY INTERAGENCY VC
Mt Whitney, way way in the back, clouds rolled in, and glacier forming mountains in the Sierras, U shaped formed by ice
and glaciers
Inyo White Mountains, V shaped by water and less snow and rain
Alluvial Fan
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LAKE DIAZ
Lake Diaz created by a earthquake in 1872
Lone Pine Fault is at the bottom along the Sierra’s , forming Diaz Lake after the big earthquake.
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DIAZ LAKE SPECIAL VISITOR
Back by the wood pile is a coyote!Garlock Fault , 2nd largest fault in
California
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MANZANAR
Camp where the Japanese were taken in 1942 during the war
Guard Shacks at Manzanar
Manzanar Plaques
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MANZANAR CONT…
The area where the buildings stood at Manzanar and the Guard road
After the Japanese inmates build the buildings they put their names here
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TRANSIT SOME MORE
Windmill blade
Joshua Tree
Playa – Dry lake bed
LA Aqueduct
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EASTERN CALIFORNIA MUSUEM
My Interest!Native American
Cradleboard
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MONO LAKE
Tufa formations, created by underwater springs that are the result of the
combination of minerals in fresh water and salt water, when the calcium in the
freshwater spring meets the carbonates in the lakes salt water, a
calcium carbonate deposit precipitates our and solidifies over the years into
rocky towers.
The Islands the small black one on the left in back is a volcano. Negit Isalnd is the volcanic cinder cone,
and the nesting ground for California Gulls. Paoha is the flat white island which has hot spring
vents.
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MONO LAKE CONT..
Former Shoelines, you tell by the different vegitation and not much will grow because of all the salt, stata exsits here too.
Tufas are now exposed as to once being underwater.
Former shoelines…
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CONVICT LAKE
A retreating glacier from the last ice age of 10,000 years ago left behind the
moraine that dammed Convict Lake
These red rocks are the oldest stones and were formed
underneath the surface and then were pushed out by
glaciers
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JUNE LAKE
Entering June Lake Loop Grant Lake and the Moraines on each side
Grant Lake the other end
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JUNE LAKE LOOP MORE
Beautiful Grant Lake Silver Lake Waterfall
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SILVER LAKE
Silver Lake boats upside down for winter
Slick polished granite Silver Lake