Photo Journal

Geography 5Mrs. Schmidt.

By: Tyler Vanderwel

Mormon Rocks.

Formed by the shifting of the San Andres plates.

Granular Structure.

This is located at the Cajon pass, on the San Andres fault.

Cinder Hill

Cinder hill is a cinder cone volcano.

Lava flows are made of volcanic eruptions

Fossil Falls

Fossil Falls Stream bed

Metate holes formed by Mesoamerican native Indians.

Fossils forms was formed by a dried up stream that was at one time a water fall.

The Mesoamerican Indians put brought the obsidian to fossil falls. They used obsidian for tips on their spears to hunt and kill

Continue fossil falls.

The Mesoamerican Indians created the petroglyphs. A petroglyph is a carving in stone by stone.

This house ring was used by the Mesoamerican Indians and they would put their housing in the inner portion of the ring.

Mt. Whitney Interagency Visitor Center

Mt Whitney elevation – 14,505 ft.Significance – steepest mountain in sierra Nevada.

Inyo-white mountains.

The orographic effect is displayed here. The clouds get caught at the mountains and leave the other side dry and desert

Alluvial fan.

Diaz Lake

Top: this is a picture of Diaz lake. Diaz lake was created by the earth shifting during a earthquake and actually dropping down creating the lake in 1872 by the lone pine earthquake. Some consequences were nearby landforms and buildings being destroyed.

Right: lone pine fault.

Manzanar

Manzanar was a concentration camp for the Japanese during the time of WWII. The US sent the Japanese here in fear that they were going to try to attack the US

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this picture represents what use to be Manzanar. The buildings were taken down by locals who used it to build other local buildings for surrounding communities.

Mammoth Area

• Dead forest Zone.

The bark beetle has infested the forest. The cut down trees are prevention methods to stop the spread of bark beetles to other trees.

Mono LakeVolcano island at mono lake name Pahoa.

Negit Lake

Shoreline 1650. Holocene high water level.

Shore line 20th century. Natural level.

18th – 19th century shore line.

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When calcium rich springs flow up through the lake bottom, the calcium bonds to carbonates in the lake water. Together they form calcium carbonate, a type of limestone. This solid material builds on itself, gradually forming a tufa tower.

Hot Creek Geologic Area

The source of heat for the water comes from the split in the earth where the steam from the center of earth rises. This warms the water turning it into a hot creek.

At this location I did not come across a fumarole, which is an opening in the earth crust that emits steam and gases.

Convict lake

Massive faults along the Owens valley separated the sierra from the white mountains.

This is the lateral and terminal moraine from convict lake.

Among these mountains in the background are some of the oldest rock formations in the sierras.

June Lake Loop.

Left: moraines.Right: beginning of moraines.

Left: Silver Lake

Eastern California Museum.

This solid piece of metal caught my interest at the museum because not only did they use this to help cut down over grown fields. But also used this device to help smooth out roads for entire towns. The piece would latch on to a horses back and the operator would sit on the chair to the right of the spikes to maneuver how fast and which direction to go.

Erratic boulder.

These boulders at one time were separate before the melting of the glacier. Through the melting of the glacier the rocks shifted and moved and ended up being placed on top of one another once the glacier finally melted fully away.

Bloody canyon

Bloody canyon was formed by the melting of the glacier between the mountains. The dirst spread down the mountain is the debris and remains of what was inside that glacier.