Part 1 of 3 photo journal

Juan Carlos Lopez

Professor Schmidt

Geography 5 Lab

Spring Semester 2012

GEO-5 PHOTO JOURNAL

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

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

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

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.

FOSSIL FALLS IS LOCATED IN INYOCOUNTY, CA.

THE METATE HOLES WERE FORMED BY THE WATER FLOW WHICH ALLOWED DEBRIS TO

CUT HOLES INTO THE ROCKS.

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

EDGES.

PETROGLYPHS ARE PICTOGRAM IMAGES CARVED ON ROCKS BY THE PREHISTORIC NATIVE

AMERICANS LIVING IN THE COSO DESERT REGION.

DUE TO THE FACT THAT NATIVE AMERICANSMIGRATED SEASONALLY, THEY WOULD BUILD

THESE RINGS TO BE USED AS LIVING AREAS, AS WELL AS REMINDER OF WHERE THEY STAYED AT

WHEN THEY RETURNED.

MORMON ROCKS GOT ITS NAME FROM MORMONSETTLERS 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.

MORMON ROCKS IS COMPOSED OF SEDIMENTARY ROCK OVERTIME.

THE STREAM BED IS PART OF THE SAN ANDREASRIFT ZONE THAT SEPREATES BOTH THE NORTH

AMERICAN AND PACIFIC PLATES.

DIAZ LAKE WAS CREATED AS A RESULT OF THE BIG EARTHQUAKE OF 1872 WHICH CAUSED THE

LAND TO SINK.

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