Feild Trip

So yesterday as a class we went to Red Rock Canyon and Fossil Falls. It was an amazing experience. I have driven through Red Rock Canyon numerous times but never had the chance to stop and take a look around.

We have to do a scientific write up on the trip but this post is going to talk about the pictures that I took and what was going on instead of what rocks or formations are in them. At least not an in depth explanation.

I don't have any pictures from our first stop in Red Rock Canyon because my camera was dead but on our second stop I took quiet a few, while on the ground and as we climbed up the cliff face for lack of a better term.

This is the back side of our first stop its all pink. Rhyolit Tuff.

This was the cliff face that we climbed. Its pretty fun and not as tiring as i originally thought

Just cool colors and angular unconformitites

This is were we climbed

and now we are looking down to the road with people for scale

there is a better view from up high

this reminded me of the Flintstones because of red rock looking like a roof on a house

this was actually a small step that is only about 2 inches high. I just got the camera in close

We weren't the only ones to climb up high

This was coming back down, we weren't the last ones

look how pretty

this was a road cut of basalts

i just liked this because it looked like a flower

Cinder cone with the Sierra Nevada's behind

Lava flow at least a mile away

Better picture of same lava flow

look at the pretty colors and contrast

a vesicular basalt with what i think is quatrz

large ingenious intrusion just off the 14

MUD CRACKS YAY!!!!!!!

Oooooh ripple marks with a foot for scale

The start of Fossil Falls

looking out toward the end

Another road cut

Lake Isabella road cut

These people scared me because they were so close to the edge and the wind was very strong

She was very brave

Large basalt

All these rocks were very smooth from the long gone water

My attempt at climbing down

The edge looking over the falls

Other brave souls

Road  cut with folds

I think you can see the dykes

My favorite rock

Holy Schist that's cool

 

That's one big pile of schist

These were just my favorite pictures. This was more fun than i had in a long time and the icing on the cake was that i didn't have to drive. Yes.

These pictures are for the most part in order but not all of them.