1. Edward Cox<br />Field/Lab Assignment Part 2<br />An example of a fault would be this one here. This view is looking west into the Badlands of Eastern Lanfair Valley. A stream has carved a valley into Piocene and Quaternary basin-fill deposits. In the distance the stream leaves the sedimentary basin fill and enters a canyon carved into middle tertiary basalt flows the Piute Range. A north-to-south trending fault defines the western side of the Piute Range at this location. It is likely that canyon is actively forming as the Piute Range is gradually rising along this fault zone. The red basin-fill deposits do not contain volcanic material derived from the adjacent volcanic rocks. This suggests that this fault system is relatively young and may be still actively developing.<br />An example of weathering process is first the characteristic rounded boulders and knop-shaped outcrops throughout the Granite Mountains formed as a result of spheroidal weathering and erosion of fractured granite. <br />Layers of alluvium exposed in Afton Canyon reveal that changes in the landscape have occurred over time. The different colored layers of sediments exposed in the cliffs reflect changing environmental conditions and stream source areas as sediments filled a basin. Afton Canyon formed when a great Pleistocene-age lake that filled the Manix Lake Basen overflowed through a low divide, creating a new path for the Mojave River. Throught portions of Afton Canyon the Mojave River is a perennial stream fred in dry periods by groundwater. In this picture the Mojave river is hidden in the thick tamarask and other brush in the foreground. The intermittent stream draining a small side canyon produced the can-like sediment apron where it enters the Mojave River floodplain.<br />I have an example of something that I feel represents the practical application of the geological science, this picture is a few years old but it is of the Millerton Dam in Central California. I really like this picture, and it is of a dam that when I was younger I would get into trouble of water skiing to close to it.<br /> <br />