Geo lab final 5

Mormon Rocks: is formed by the San Andrea Fault whereas the two tectonic platesWhich the pacific plate is going north and the American Plate is going south.

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Mormon rocks

Granular structure: are composed of sedimentary rocks

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The stream bed is where the water use to pass but due to the seasons dried up which the photo shows the dried stream bed.

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Stream bed Mormon rocks

San Andreas Rift Zone is the boundary between the pacific and the north American plate which is between the san Gabriel and san Bernardino mountains.

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Cinder Hill is an Cinder volcanoe. It is one of the smallest out of the three. Jerry

Cinder hill

The lava flow is made up of extrusive rock. It is from the eruption made up of silica.

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Lava flow

Fossil falls which are made up of basalt rock which seen are smooth because they were caused by when water went over the basaltic rock. It was formed from an eruption.

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The metate holes were formed from pebbles going over the rocks overtime from the river which happen to create holes that are circles.

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Metate holes

The flake in my hand is an obsidian flake where tribes use to create tools for their arrow heads. The flake is very sharp and can almost cut your hand.

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Obsidian flakes

The drawings are made from native Americans who shared the way they viewed their life. It was a ritual and a symbol for them to draw petroglyphs.

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Petroglyphs

This photo is a small house ring where the native Americans used to live in where they migrated during the varies seasons.

House ring

Mt.Whitney elevation is 14,494 feet. The significance is the U shape around the mountain which was caused by a glacier.

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Mt.whitney

The orographic effect is the u shaped formed by glaciers.

U shape

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The Inyo-White mountains separate Owens valley and saline valley.

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Inyo-White Mountains

Alluvial fan

Diaz lake was created by an earthquake which dropped down and a spring was created next to the lone pine fault. It was one of the biggest earthquakes recorded from California. It was created in the year 1872.

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Diaz lake

The lone pine fault was one of the biggest earthquakes created in California of 1872. It created a lake after beyond that hill in Diaz lake. The arrow is showing the Alabama hills which was created by the fault.

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Lone Pine Fault

Manazar

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Guard Shack

Plaques

Manzanar was during world war 2 fight which spread propaganda through the Japanese. Society was afraid of getting bombed which they kept the Japanese as slaves. They made them build houses and do all their dirty work. They were afraid and afraid for them and their safety.

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Guard shack

plaquesplaques

Mammoth area where they cut down the trees because of bark beetle.

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Bark beetle

Crawly lake where as you can see the low reservoir drought is the worst in history of California. It is also the water supply for California.

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Crawly lake

This is Mono Lake which the first shoreline is the ancient shore line right next to the hills. The old shoreline is where all the bushes are and vegetation use to be when they grew crops. The current shoreline is where you enter in the water.

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Current shoreline

Old shoreline

Ancientshoreline

The arrow to the left is the volcanoes island.

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Negit volcanoe island

Paoha island

The tufa rock limestone, from calcium in warm water. It represents a fossil springs into tufa towers., forming long lines with long faults. It is two times as salty. They were created under the water.

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Tufa formations

This is the glacieate valley and marine. It was created by a glacier which is a u shape and created debris and cranium. The elevation is 6,842 at 37 North and 119 West.

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Convict lake was created by a glacier which the plate tectonics pushing up. It was carved out by glacier ice with the glacier moraines. The lateral moraines is the sediment that run along the glacier which can go from top to bottom. The

oldest rock formation is dating back from 400 million years ago in the sierra Nevada's at the top of the mountain.

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Waterfall

Lateralmoraine

Oldest rock formations

The terminal moraine is the sediment farthest from the glacier.

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TeriminalMoraine.

The Keoughs hot springs are the largest spring in the eastern side of Nevada's. It is warmed up by volcanic lava from the top to the bottom.

Hot spring in Keoughs

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This is the grant lake and murrians.

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Grant lake

Moraines

Silver lake and the frozen waterfall.

waterfall

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The erratic boulder rock

Erratic boulder rock

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At the eastern California Museum the egg interested me because they don’t know what animal what the egg is from. The lady told me they drained out the eggs and till this day they have no idea

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Egg that is unidentified

Cool photo of mewalking on water