Sarita Mc Gowan

Wed 5-6:50

Fall 2012

Granular structure

San Andreas Rift Zone located in the

stream bed

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

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

Stream bed at Fossil Falls of Owens RiverOwens 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

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

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

Lake Diaz created by a earthquake in 1872Lone Pine Fault is at the bottom along the Sierra’s

, forming Diaz Lake after the big earthquake.

Back by the wood pile is a coyote!Garlock Fault , 2nd largest fault in

California

Camp where the Japanese were taken in 1942 during the war Guard Shacks at Manzanar

Manzanar Plaques

The area where the buildings stood at Manzanar and the Guard road

After the Japanese inmates build the buildings they put their names here

Windmill blade

Joshua Tree

Playa – Dry lake bed

LA Aqueduct

My Interest!Native American Cradleboard

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. NegitIsalnd is the volcanic cinder cone,

and the nesting ground for California Gulls. Paoha is the flat white island

which has hot spring vents.

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.

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

Entering June Lake Loop Grant Lake and the Moraines on each side

Grant Lake the other end

Beautiful Grant Lake Silver Lake Waterfall

Silver Lake boats upside down

for winterSlick polished granite Silver Lake