Ok so here is a cool, fun, awesome beautiful Blog about my Field Trip

Ok so we started out like always 8 am in the B.C. parking lot. I was one of the lucky ones who got to ride with the Professor along with two Earth Science student, which was me last semester, anyways. As we drove along we got to hear all the cool stuff that nobody else got to hear unless ofcourse they were in one of the other professors vehicle. Oops I lied our first stop was really Garlock Fault where we were standing on a fault line that if you were not told it was there you would have no idea that it was. This fault was the one to blame for the 1952 earthquake. We then stopped at Jawbone station where a reluctant tortoise would not come out I think he heard there was another field trip coming. Haha. Hey he's 109 he's allowed to be crabby. Anyways we looked at some Vesicular Basalt there which I was able to identify(yes, proud of myself.) Then we headed off to an awesome beautiful place called Red Rock Amphitheater. This place has the most awesome view. It has rock face after rock face of beautifully naturally colored strata, which is layers in case you read this and don't know what strata is, there is two very distinct fault lines running through this with totally cool displacement that anybody can see. With all of this natural beauty going on it's hard not to just sit there and stare or if your like me climb as high as you can on it. Our next stop was also a beautiful amazement although totally different we went from sedimentary rock to igneous rocks in such a short drive. All around before the stop while we were still on the main highway which was the 395 you could see these columns of basalt and where the flow from the cinder cones were. When you drove into see fossil falls everywhere you look is either phahoehoe or Aa Aa lava flows. As we walked the short .21 miles to the actual falls. Your able to climb down into the falls where you can see that yes there was once water flowing through here. I have been here twice and this place has amazed me twice. I was able to find a couple of pieces of obsidian that the Indians would have used to make spears and other tools. Then as I climbed down the falls you going one rock by one. Being very careful because they are slippery. Some are very smooth. At one point where you can go down this very steep I guess the only word I can find for it is enbankment all though that is an awful word for it. To get down there though you have to dare to go down this shaft that is probably 12 inches wide. Which was much easier this year than last(again very proud of myself, thanks whole hardly to Volkslauf which my professor pointed out, look below for pics of that.) Anyways as we got down in there we were able to find cave drawings of what we can only assume to be maybe antalope. Our next stop was a very short ride up the road to a cinder cone where some people chose to take on a task I tried last year and only half way completed thanks to an asthma attack climbing the cinder cone while others of us collected bombs and splats that is volcanic bombs in the shape of footballs and splats that look kind of like cowpatties. But they are totally cool. The bombs have these lines in them where you can see where the air hit them while they were still very hot lava whirling through the air. I brought a couple of them home with me. So I now have volcanic bombs and splats, fossilized shells, and various little rocks that I still have to ask what some are. So this is the adventure I had today. It was nice it was relaxing and it was beautiful. Got to love field trips. I am so going to the Mojave one this next semester. Eventhough I better be at Cal State by then. Hahaha.