Geology 103 Field Assignment of Rocks and Evolution of Nature

2. Tehachapi, California
35°07'55.9"N 118°26'56.3"W
• 50,000 acres
• Tehachapi Mountains ranging from 4,000 - 8,000 feet elevation
• Located in mountains between the Mojave Desert and San Joaquin
Valley
• The first people to settle in Tehachapi were the Native American tribe,
Kawaiisu (Nuwa), which means “The People.”
• Tehachapi derived from Kawaiisu word “tihachipia” meaning “hard
climb.”
(Tehachapi, 2014).

3. Milky Quartz
Composition: Silicon dioxide
Cleavage: None
Moh’s Hardness Scale: 7
Streak: White or Clear
Color: White, Pink, Red, Black, Gray, Purple, Brown, Green, Blue, Multi, Colorless
Luster: Vitreous
Crystal System: Hexagonal
Gray Quartz
(Alden, n.d.)

5. Vesicular Basalt or Scoria
Basalt Outcropping

8. Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Superclass: Tetrapoda
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Lacertilia

9. Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Procyonidae
Genus: Procyon
Species: P. lotor

11. Shelter from fire damage
Shelter digitally remastered to show what
pictographs should look like (Mattern, 2013).
Various pictographs digitally remastered
(Mattern, 2013).
Various
pictographs

12. Elizabeth Lake
34° 39′ 56.95″ N, 118° 24′ 9.29″ W
• Part of Los Angeles County in California, west of the Antelope
Valley and surrounded by the Sierra Pelona Mountains.
• Lake was created by motions from the Earth’s tectonic plates
(U.S., 2004).
• Originally named La Laguna de Diablo (Devil’s Lake) because
legend was the Devil’s monster lived within the lake.
(Elizabeth Lake, 2014).

13. Elizabeth Lake Before
Elizabeth Lake After
Fire
After

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118.4024062,1574m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x80c26f30ce4c5577:0x2377cb34cdcff66f?hl=en
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• King, H. (n.d.c). Granite. : Igneous Rock. Retrieved June 17, 2014, from http://geology.com/rocks/granite.shtml
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118.4933395,25041m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
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