2. Trip One: Mormon Rocks
Mormon Rocks is an area of sandstone blocks
exposed to the elements through plate
tectonics. Located along the San Andreas
Fault in the San Andreas Rift Zone, you can
see these rocks from the 15 freeway as it
passes through Cajon Pass
3. Trip One: Granular Rock
Metamorphism is the alteration of a
preexisting rock (the parent rock) due to
heat and pressure caused by burial in the
earth.
4. Trip One: Stream Bed
Located by Cajon pass where water once
flowed through this area.
5. Trip One: San Andreas Lift
Pacific plate is moving slowly to the
northwest while all land east of the fault is
moving southwest
6. Trip One: Cinder Hill
Red Hill, a basaltic cinder cone in the Coso
Volcanic field near Fossil Falls State Park
7. Trip One: Lava Flow
Lava refers both to molten rock expelled by
a volcano during an eruption and the
resulting rock after solidification and cooling
8. Trip One: Fossil Falls
All the lava flows at Fossil Falls are basaltic.
The Coso Volcanic Field brought flows from
the north east and later Red Hill, which can
be viewed from Fossil Falls, released the
younger lava. The flows occurred between
400,000 years ago and 10,000 years ag
9. Trip One: Metate Holes
While varying in specific morphology, metates
adhere to a common shape. They typically
consist of large stones with a smooth
depression or bowl worn into the upper
surface. The bowl is formed by the continual
and long-term grinding of materials using a
smooth hand-held stone
10. Trip One: Obsidian Rock
It is produced when felsic lava extruded from
a volcano cools rapidly with minimum crystal
growth. Obsidian is commonly found within
the margins of rhyolitic lava flows known
as obsidian flows, where the chemical
composition (high silica content) induces a
high viscosity and polymerization degree of
the lava.
11. Trip One: House Ring
Used by Native Americans for religious
prayer.
13. Trip Two: Mt Witney
Mount Whitney is the highest summit in
the contiguous United States with an
elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m).[1] It is on
the boundary between
California's Inyo and Tularecounties
14. Trip Two: Orographic Effect
Orographic effect occurs when an air mass
approaches a mountain range and is rapidly
forced upward, causing any moisture to cool
and create precipitation in the form of rain
or snow.
15. Trip Two: Inyo Moutins
The Inyo Mountains are a short mountain
range east of the Sierra Nevada mountains in
eastern California in the United States.[1] The
range separates the Owens Valley to the west
with Saline Valley to the east, extending for
approximately 70 mi
16. Trip Two: Diaz Lake
The lake was formed by the 1872 Lone Pine
earthquake on Tuesday, March 26
17. Trip Two: Lone Pine Fault
he Great Lone Pine earthquake was one of
the largest earthquakes to hit California
in recorded history. The quake struck on
March 26, 1872 and its epicenter was
near Lone Pine
18. Trip Two:Mono Lake
shallow saline soda lake in Mono
County, California, formed at least 760,000
years ago as a terminal lake in a basin that
has no outlet to the ocean.
19. Trip Two: Mono Coast line
The shoreline continues to recede.
20. Trip Two: Tufa Formations
Tufa is a variety of limestone, formed by
the precipitation of carbonate minerals from
ambient temperature water bodies.
22. Trip Two: Grant Lake
Grant Lake is located 11 miles north of
Mammoth Lakes on Highway 158. From Hwy
395, go East on Hwy 158 (June Lake Loop).
23. Trip Two: Moraine
A moraine is any glacially
formed accumulation of unconsolidated
glacial debris (soil and rock) which can occur
in currently glaciated and formerly glaciated
regions, such as those areas acted upon by a
past glacial maximum.
25. Trip Two: Waterfall at Silver
Lake
Picture does not display water well but trust
me its there !
26. Trip Two: Convict Lake
Convict Lake is a lake in the Sherwin
Range of the Sierra
Nevada in California, USA. It is known for its
fishing and the dramatic mountains
(including Mount Morrison) that surround the
lake. Its surface lies at an elevation of
7,850 ft
27. Trip Two: Eastern Museum
Lots of cool artifacts, could not fined any
hemp medication or sativa related ointments.
28. Trip two: Manzanar Camp
Manzanar is most widely known as the site of
one of ten camps where over
110,000 Japanese
Americans were incarcerated during World
War II. Located at the foot of the Sierra
Nevada inCalifornia's Owens Valley between
the towns of Lone Pine to the south
and Independence to the north, it is
approximately 230 miles (370 km) northeast
of Los Angeles
