The document provides information about geological formations around Mono Lake in eastern California, including tufa rock formations created by calcium-rich springs, volcanic islands in Mono Lake, evidence of declining lake levels from former shorelines, moraines surrounding lakes, waterfalls, and old metamorphic rock formations. It also summarizes observations from the Eastern California Museum of Native American beaded accessories, and describes the Manzanar War Relocation Center that detained Japanese Americans, as well as images from the area showing geological features like faults, alluvial fans, and plant life.

1. MONO LAKE TUFA FORMATIONS
Tufa formations Tufa formations
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When calcium-rich springs flow up through the bottom of the lake, the calcium
bonds to in the water. Together they create calcium carbonate, a type of limestone.
This solid material builds on top of itself, gradually forming tufa rocks. When the
lake level drops, exposed tufa stops growing.

2. Mono Lake and its Islands
A Volcanic Island
Mono Lake has 2 islands, 1 of which is a volcano.

3. Former shorelines of Mono Lake
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The shorelines at Mono Lake provide evidence that the water level has dropped
significantly over the last couple of decades. On the shore you can also see the
tufa formations that were once formed under the water.

4. June Lake Loop
Grant Lake
Grant Lake

5. June Lake Loop
Grant Lake Moraines
Moraines
Moraines

6. June Lake Loop
SILVER LAKE
Silver Lake

7. June Lake Loop
Silver Lake Waterfall Waterfall

8. Convict Lake
Convict Lake developed by a moraine dam that was created from
retreating glaciers.

9. Convict Lake
Oldest Rock Formations in the Sierras
Oldest rock formations
This is a picture of the oldest metamorphic rock formations.

10. Eastern California Museum
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Beaded belts
Beaded shoes
During our visit at the Eastern California Museum I really enjoyed observing the
beaded shoes and accessories. I learned that the beads were shaped from stone and
shells, and were used for creating many different things, like baskets, belts, neck ties
and collars. I also find it amazing that one can work with something so tiny to make it
look so beautiful with the assortment of colors and details.

11. Manzanar
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Manzanar War Relocation Center was a concentration camp bounded by barbed wire and guard
towers (pictured above) that detained 10,000 people of Japanese descent. After being ordered to
leave their homes by the us government, the men, women and children of Manzanar fought to
establish a normal lifestyle for about three and a half years.

12. MANZANAR
In this picture we can see a
small section of the
concentration camp,
Manzanar. The camp
consisted of 68 blocks,
including 36 residential blocks
that had 14 barrack on each of
them. We can also see a
piece of the round stone wall
that once surrounded a
garden.
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The stone wall pictured was
built by prisoners of
Manzanar, George Wada and
crew, on June, 10th 1942 A.D.
In the center of the wall now
lives a Joshua tree, that was
planted years after the camp
was shut down.
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13. In Transit Photo
Solar Power Plant
Solar Panels

14. In Transit Photo
Doppler Radar Tower
Doppler radar towers are tracking systems that determine the velocity of a moving
object by measuring the Doppler shift. Also used to track weather.

15. In Transit Photo
The Garlock Fault
The Garlock Fault
The significance of The Garlock Fault is that it is the second largest fault in Southern California and
marks the boundary between The Mojave Desert and Sierra Nevada.

16. In Transit Photos
Cucamonga Alluvial Fan
The Cucamonga alluvial fan is made from flood-borne rock and debris that has flowed downward
after rainstorms to the base of the mountain in the shape of a fan.

17. In Transit Photo
Joshua Tree
Joshua Tree Joshua Tree

18. In Transit Photo
Creosote Bush