2. Cinder Hill is a basaltic cinder cone in the Coso Volcanic field near Fossil Falls State
Park. October 9, 2010. 2:05 pm.

3. Fossil Falls Stream Bed. Where water from Owens River use to flow. October 9, 2010.
2:47 pm.

4. Fossil Falls was formed from melt water from glaciers, that pooled into lakes, including Owens
lake and river. The falls were formed when the river was forced to divert its course over a basalt
flow, polishing and reshaping the rock into a variety of unique shapes and forms. October 9,
2010. 2:44 pm.

5. Metate holes at Fossil Falls were used by the Native Americans to grind up acorns
or other foods. October 9, 2010. 2:24 pm.

6. Obsidian Flakes are a product of chipping of the rocks. Natives used to Obsidian to
make tools. October 9, 2010. 2:41 pm.
Obsidian flakes

7. Petroglyphs were left on the rocks by the Native Americans. They show what the
people of that time may have believed In or experienced in this area at the time
they were created. October 9, 2010. 2:57 pm.

8. Home Rings were built by the Native Americans when they stayed in the area. The house
rings signify where the Native Americans set up shelter. October 9,2010. 3:08 pm.

9. Mormon Rocks Mormon Rocks are a series of cemented sandstone beds much
more resistant to erosion than the surrounding gravel and silt sands, that were
created by the San Andreas Fault. October 9, 2010. 10:19 am.

10. Thos is the granular structure of Mormon Rocks that show what kind of materials the
rocks are made of, it shoes signs of erosion that has taken place over the years.
October 9, 2010.. 10:24 am.

11. The dry streambed shows that there was one water flowing in this part of the fault,
near Mormon Rocks. October 9, 2010. 10:22 am.

12. The San Andreas Rift Zone is a continental transform fault that runs a length of roughly 810 miles
through California. The fault's motion is right-lateral strike-slip. It forms the tectonic boundary
between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. October 9, 2010. 10:19 am.
Rift Zone

13. Mt. Whitney is the highest summit in the U.S. The granite that forms Mount Whitney is part of the Sierra Nevada batholiths. In
Cretaceous time, masses of molten rock that originated from subduction that rose underneath what is now Whitney and
solidified underground to form large expanses of granite. In the last few million years, the Sierra has started to rise. This has
enabled glacial and river erosion to strip the upper layers of rock to reveal the resistant granite that makes up Mount Whitney
today. November 5, 2010. 1:46 pm.
Mt. Whitney

14. Diaz Lake was formed in 1872 by the Lone Pine Earthquake. Eighteen miles of the
Owens Valley dropped approximately 20ft, causing a new spring to open and ,
causing water to fill the lowland. November 5, 2010. 1:28 pm.

15. The Lone Pine Fault is part of a twin system of normal faults that run along the base of two
parallel mountain ranges; the Sierra Nevada on the west and Inyo Mountains on the east flank
of Owens Valley. The Lone Pine fault helped generate one of the largest earthquakes in
California in 1872, with the epicenter near Lone Pine. November 5, 2010. 1:27 pm.
Lone Pine Fault

16. The Lone Pine Fault is part of a twin system of normal faults that run along the base of two
parallel mountain ranges; the Sierra Nevada on the west and Inyo Mountains on the east flank
of Owens Valley. The Lone Pine fault helped generate one of the largest earthquakes in
California in 1872, with the epicenter near Lone Pine. November 5, 2010. 1:27 pm.

17. Mono Lake is believed to have been formed by the Long Valley eruption. In order to provide water needs for the growing City of
Los Angeles, water was diverted from the Owens River into the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913. In 1941 the Los Angeles
Department of Water and Power extended the Los Angeles Aqueduct system further upriver into the Mono Basin. So much water
was diverted that evaporation soon exceeded inflow and the surface level of Mono Lake fell rapidly. By 1982 the lake was
reduced to 37,688 acres, losing 31 percent of its 1941 surface area. As a result alkaline sands and once-submerged tufa towers
became exposed and Island became land bridged, exposing the nests of gulls to predators and forcing the breeding colony to
abandon the site. It has an unusually productive ecosystem, and is a critical nesting habitat for several bird species. November 6,
2010. 11:27 am.
Negit Paoha

18. Mono lakes shorelines have changed over the years because of water being
diverted from the Los Angeles aqueduct.
Former shore line

19. Tufa is a variety of limestone, formed by the precipitation of carbonate minerals from ambient
temperature water bodies. The tufa at Mono Lake were formed underwater and then exposed
as the water level of Mono Lake began to fall, exposing the tufa. The tufa provided nesting area
for birds and other animals.

20. Panum Crater is a volcanic cone that is part of the Mono-Inyo Craters. Panum Crater formed in a sequence of
events. The first event was caused by magma rising from deep within the Earth's crust. When this extremely hot, liquid
rock made contact with water just below the surface, the water expanded into steam and a large, violent eruption
occurred. So much debris was blown out that a gaping crater was left behind. November 6, 2010. 12:31 pm.

21. Keoughs Hot Springs were produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater from the
Earth's crust. November 5, 2010. 3:50 pm.

22. Convict Lake gets its name from a hanging that took place in 1871. The mountains
surrounding convict lake have some of the oldest formations of rocks. November 6,
2010. 4:30pm.
Lateral & Terminal
Moraine
Oldest formation of rocks

23. Grant Lake is a man made lake that was a dam before it became a reservoir for
the LADWP. November 6,2010. 3:30 pm

24. The water fall near Silver Lake cascade s into Silver Lake and Rush Creek. These moraines were
glacially formed and by 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 ice age. November 6, 2010. 3;42 pm.
Waterfall
Moraines

25. Silver Lake is found in the June Lake Loop. The overflow from June lake and Gull Lake flows back
toward the mountain range and thus is named Reversed Creek. Reversed Creek reaches a
confluence with Rush Creek and flows through Silver Lake and Grant Lake, completing the "loop"
to the Mono Basin. November 6, 2010. 3:41 pm

26. The Cucamonga Alluvial Fan was formed by the outwash of streams draining the
southern slopes of the eastern part of the San Gabriel Mountains, in the Cucamonga and
San Bernardino quadrangles. Photo credit to Aaron Bratton. Date and time unknown.
Alluvial Fan

27. I picked these shoes from the 1860’s because I found it interesting that at the time these shoes
were made they were made to fit either the left or the right foot. It wasn’t until after the civil war
that shoes were mass produced specifically for left and right feet. November 7, 2010. 10:20 am.

28. The solar power plants in the Mojave Desert supply power to the electricity grid. Solar Energy Generating Systems is the name
given to nine solar power plants in the Mojave Desert which were built in the 1980s. October 9, 2010. 11:49 am. The Doppler
Radar is a specialized radar that makes use of the Doppler effect to produce velocity data about objects at a distance. These
Doppler tower in the desert provide info for weather in California. October 9, 2010. 11:54 am.

29. Mine tailings are the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the
uneconomic fraction of an ore. October 9, 2010. 12:20pm. The Garlock Fault is a left-lateral strike-slip fault
running approximately northeast-southwest in southern California for much of its length along the
southern base of the Tehachapi Mountains. It marks the northern boundary of the area known as the
Mojave Block, as well as the southern ends of the Sierra Nevada and the valleys of the westernmost Basin
and Range province. October 9,2010. 12:14 pm
Garlock Fault
Mine Tailings

30. The California Aqueduct is a system of canals, tunnels, and pipelines that conveys water collected from the Sierra Nevada
Mountains and valleys of Northern- and Central California to Southern California. October 9,2010. 12:14 pm. Owens Dry Lake is a
mostly dry lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada of Inyo County, California, located about 5 miles south of Lone Pine, California.
Unlike most dry lakes in the Basin and Range Province that have been dry for thousands of years, Owens held significant water
until 1924, until much of the Owens River was diverted into the Los Angeles Aqueduct, causing it to desiccate. Today, some of the
flow of the river has been restored, and the lake now contains some water. November 5, 2010. 1:07 pm.
Owens Dry Lake

31. Joshua trees are fast growers, if it survives the rigors of the desert it can live for hundreds of years
with some specimens surviving up to a thousand years. Creosote bush is most common on the
well-drained soils of alluvial fans and flats. Burroweed is a member of the Sunflower Family. The
rounded shrub grows to 3 feet in height and has green, deeply lobed leaves that grow on
alternate sides of the stem.. The plant typically grows in dry, gravelly to sandy soils on roadsides,
waste places, alluvial plains, mesas, and slopes. October 9, 2010. 11:15 am.
Joshua Tree
Burroweed Grass
Creosote Bush