This document provides a summary of sites seen on a field trip, including:
- The Cucamonga Alluvial Fan and debris flow areas in canyons.
- A cinder cone volcano that erupted 500 years ago, and nearby lava flows and obsidian flakes from Native Americans.
- Features formed by water such as metate holes, the Owens River bed, and alluvial fans.
- Sites related to Native Americans including petroglyphs, house rings, and obsidian tool preparation areas.
3. Doppler Radar Tower which
Cucamonga Alluvial Fan, they measures the wind
are debris flow areas where
gravity carries water down
cutting ridges in the canyons
4. Cinder Cone Volcano, erupted 500 yrs ago with white Lava Flows Intrusive and extrusive, lava flows
pumus stone and the red stone is mined for track fields hit the water of the Owens River
5. Metate holes formed by little pebbles trapped
by river water
Owens River Bed flowed through here at Fossil
Stream bed at Fossil Falls of Owens River Falls, which was formed by the lava hitting the
river water
6. House rings formed by Native Americans to provide
temp shelter
Petroglyph created by Native Americans that
occupied this area and is a drawing in stone
Obsidian Flakes from the Native Americans that
used this area to prepare their arrowheads
7. Inyo White Mountains, V shaped by water and
less snow and rain
Mt Whitney, way way in the back, clouds
rolled in, and glacier forming mountains in
the Sierras, U shaped formed by ice and
glaciers
Alluvial Fan
8. Lone Pine Fault is at the bottom along the Sierra’s
Lake Diaz created by a earthquake in 1872 , forming Diaz Lake after the big earthquake.
9. Back by the wood pile is a coyote!
Garlock Fault , 2nd largest fault in
California
14. Tufa formations, created by underwater
springs that are the result of the The Islands the small black one on
combination of minerals in fresh water and the left in back is a volcano. Negit
salt water, when the calcium in the Isalnd is the volcanic cinder cone,
freshwater spring meets the carbonates in and the nesting ground for California
the lakes salt water, a calcium carbonate
deposit precipitates our and solidifies over Gulls. Paoha is the flat white island
the years into rocky towers. which has hot spring vents.
15. Former Shoelines, you tell by Tufas are now exposed as to
the different vegitation and not once being underwater.
much will grow because of all
the salt, stata exsits here too.
Former shoelines…
16. A retreating glacier from the These red rocks are the oldest
last ice age of 10,000 years stones and were formed
underneath the surface and
ago left behind the moraine then were pushed out by
that dammed Convict Lake glaciers
17. Grant Lake the other end
Entering June Lake Loop Grant Lake and the Moraines on each
side