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Rainbow Canyon is a canyon near the western edge of the park. It is commonly used by the United States
Military for fighter jet training and is frequented by photographers who, from the canyon rim, are able to photograph jets flying beneath them. Since the 2019 planecrash all military air traffic has
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series. The largest dune is called Star Dune and is relatively stable and stationary because it is at a point where the various winds that shape the dunes converge. The depth of the sand at its crest is 130–140 feet (40–43 metres) but this is small compared to other dunes in the area that have sand
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Much of Salt Creek is usually dry at the surface and covered by a bright layer of salt which was created by many flooding and subsequent evaporation of water that periodically flows at the surface. Over time the small amount of solutes in the water accumulate to form this linear salt pan. Another
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on the south end of the playa. Similar rock travel patterns have been recorded in several other playas in the region but the number and length of travel grooves on The
Racetrack are notable. Racetrack stones only move once every two or three years and most tracks last for just three or four years.
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Non-stop winds on this ridge are concentrated and compressed at the top of the hill and are very fast as a result. These strong winds pick-up dust and sand (mostly from the two closest alluvial fans), which literally sand-blast exposed surfaces. Winds strong enough for sandblasting come from the
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Badwater Basin that are approximately 2 - 2.5 metres in diameter. These are part of larger-scale features that are also hexagonally-shaped and can be seen from Dante's View nearly 6,000 feet (1,800 m) above. The saucers are formed after the salty pan
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rate. This, the nation's greatest evaporation potential, means that even a 12-foot (3.7 m) deep, 30 miles (48 km) long lake would dry up in a single year. While flooded, some of the salt is dissolved, then is redeposited as clean, sparkling crystals when the water evaporates.
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are formed when two or more facets (planar surfaces) intersect. Open grooves in the ventifacts are called flutes. Most of the holes in the basalt are vesicles that were formed when gas escaped from the cooling lava. Some of these have been expanded or even merged by sandblasting.
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field. As groundwater exploded into steam due to the heat of magma underneath, an empty pit was left behind and the debris spread around the field. Erosion over the millennia since the eruption revealed multi-colored stripes on the crater walls dating to the
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time, older rocks were intensely faulted and sheared. In some areas all that remains of some thick rock layers are lens-shaped pods of rock bounded on all sides by faults. Other layers have been sliced out of their original sequence altogether.
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studied the faulting and folding in the area, dubbing it the "Amargosa chaos" due to the extreme warping of the rock. Later researchers discovered that the region had experienced substantial tension that pulled large blocks of crust apart.
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is the highest point within Death Valley
National Park and was named for the great distance visible from the summit – from atop this desert mountain one can see for over one hundred miles in many directions, including west to
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carry rocky debris (sediment) eroded from Mosaic Canyon and the surrounding hillsides toward the valley below. At the canyon mouth water spreads out and deposits its sediment load, gradually building up a large wedge-shaped
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Badwater, covering the salt pan with a thin sheet of standing water. Each newly formed lake doesn't last long though, because the 1.9 inches (48 mm) average rainfall is overwhelmed by a 150-inch (3,800 mm) annual
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on the sand and on dried mud, which used to cover this part of the valley before the dunes intruded (mesquite was the dominant plant here before the sand dunes but creosote does much better in the sand dune conditions).
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Wildrose Canyon has 2 campgrounds above the kilns, Thorndyke at 7,490 feet and
Mahogany Flat at 7923 feet. The latter is the trail head for the hiking trail to Telescope Peak and has views to the east down to Badwater.
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which included periodic erosive floods followed by long periods of deposition and uplift. But due to the uplift when the next flood hit the area it would deeply cut the streambed which forms stairstep-shaped banks.
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Eureka Valley. Sand dunes cover 3 square miles (8 km) of Eureka Valley, rising 680 feet (207 m) as one of North
America's tallest dunes. As sand moves down the dune face it produces a booming noise, known as
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It takes some time for waves to gnaw away terraces like the ones seen on
Shoreline Butte, so these benches provide records of times when the lake level stabilized long enough for waves to leave their mark on the
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Cathedral is a geological formation located between highways 178 and 190. Formed of steep cliffs, it is composed of red colored oxidized rocks and is visible from Zabriskie point and the Golden Canyon trail.
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in the middle part of the decade. The
Pacific Nitrate Company arrived in 1909 and built a small camp, but left within a few years. From the 1930s through the 1960s the springs provided water for the successful
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The fourth and final event occurred quite recently, geologically speaking. This phase of deformation coincided with severe crustal stretching that created the deep valleys and high mountains of this part of the
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Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes are at the northern end of the valley floor and are nearly surrounded by mountains on all sides. Due to their easy access from the road and the overall proximity of Death Valley to
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Haff, P. K. 1986. Booming Dunes: For reasons not yet fully understood, sand sliding down the slipface of a dune can produce booming noises at startling volumes. American Scientist. 74, 1: 376-381
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that formed when the rocky crust of the Death Valley region began stretching just a few million years ago. Running water scoured away at the fault-weakened rock, gradually carving Mosaic canyon.
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once covered the valley to a depth of 30 feet (9.1 m). The salt in the Devil's Golf Course consists of the minerals that were dissolved in the lake's water and left behind in the
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fed by a deep canyon cut into the Black Mountains. Artist's Palette is an area on the face of the Black Mountains noted for a variety of rock colors. These colors are caused by the
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Although the mines themselves were worked intermittently until about 1900, there is no clear evidence that the charcoal kilns were operational after 1879. They were restored by
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cause the oxidation and other chemical reactions that produce the variety of colors displayed in the Artist Drive Formation and nearby exposures of the Furnace Creek Formation.
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that can form a lake after heavy rain. Airspace above the valley is part of the Panamint Military Operating Area, restricted to US military use. The ghost town of
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guide book to Death Valley National Monument, which stated that "Only the devil could play golf" on its surface, due to a rough texture from the large
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can also be seen from here which is 11,331 feet (3,454 m) above sea level. This is the greatest topographic relief in the conterminous U.S.
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on them. This particular form of desert varnish takes 10,000 years to make 1/100th of an inch of varnish and is deposited by a certain type of
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who was born in 1874, emigrated from France in 1890, and lived at and worked the nearby Eureka Mine from 1905 to his death in 1945.
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The primary source of the dune sands is probably the Cottonwood Mountains which lie to the north and northwest. The tiny grains of
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1922:"Earthquake: 3.2 quake strikes near Teakettle Junction in Death Valley"
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USGS: Death Valley National Park Virtual Geology Field Trip
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rush in 1902, and similarly unsuccessful attempts to mine
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time. This third event folded the layered Precambrian and
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Tourist attractions in San Bernardino County, California
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William Bright; Erwin Gustav Gudde (30 November 1998).
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1500 California place names: their origin and meaning
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depths of up to 600–700 feet (180–210 metres) deep.
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2023:Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley
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813:scenes for several movies including films in the
1957:Massey, Peter; Wilson, Jeanne (April 24, 2006).
1700:. Nps.gov (2011-04-15). Retrieved on 2011-05-06.
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1139:Red Cathedral seen from the Golden Canyon trail
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2472:Tourist attractions in Inyo County, California
2462:Geography of San Bernardino County, California
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1736:"Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park"
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1886:"Death Valley Has a Secret Shrine to…Tea"
1243:. Other rare species present include the
647:Through exploratory holes drilled by the
468:The kilns were located here as the trees
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292:Artist's Drive rises up to the top of an
1837:United States Department of the Interior
1711:"Death Valley Salt Pan and other playas"
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2467:Geography of Inyo County, California
1675:. September 21, 2015. Archived from
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725:Oasis at Death Valley resort complex
442:. This fuel was then transported to
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1828:Geographic Names Information System
1556:. Sharp edges of ventifacts called
618:The Devil's Golf Course is a large
2014:from websites or documents of the
1857:Huegel, Tony (December 21, 2006).
190:The Amargosa Chaos is a series of
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1833:United States Geological Survey
1673:United States Geological Survey
1544:Ventifact Ridge is a part of a
2201:Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad
2156:Amargosa Opera House and Hotel
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1984:George deVries Klein (1977),
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1402:National Park Service rangers
1798:"Death Valley : Hiking"
1540:Ventifact at Ventifact Ridge
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666:Eureka Valley and Sand Dunes
1474:and other rock formations,
1122:Rainbow Canyon (California)
1018:is an Italian word meaning
715:Furnace Creek is a spring,
672:Eureka Valley (Inyo County)
649:Pacific Coast Borax Company
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47:are mostly located within
41:Places of interest in the
2120:Death Valley monkeyflower
1973:– via Google Books.
1873:– via Google Books.
1462:is a narrow gorge in the
1274:after the resort town of
1154:Saline Valley, California
711:Furnace Creek, California
509:Cottonwood Charcoal Kilns
2140:Saratoga Springs pupfish
2130:Death Valley June beetle
1904:"Teakettle Junction, Ca"
1253:Death Valley June beetle
1241:Saratoga Springs pupfish
1089:Rocks on Racetrack Playa
800:Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes
792:Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes
784:Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes
662:, also in Death Valley.
461:Indian stonemasons from
257:Basin and Range Province
18:Devil's Golf Course
1622:. National Park Service
1239:species, including the
769:Death Valley seen from
695:Eureka Evening Primrose
513:Piedmont Charcoal Kilns
470:single-leaf pinyon pine
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2012:public domain material
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1986:Clastic Tidal Facies
1963:. Adler Publishing.
1940:"Teakettle Junction"
1890:Smithsonian Magazine
1863:. Wilderness Press.
1393:36.76028; -117.54250
1249:Amargosa springsnail
1219:located in southern
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515:in Wyoming, and the
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2287:Devil's Golf Course
2181:Harmony Borax Works
2166:Death Valley '49ers
2135:Devils Hole pupfish
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1643:"Aguereberry Point"
1464:Grapevine Mountains
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128:Inyo County
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2176:Greenwater
2115:Chuckwalla
1746:2010-04-05
1721:2007-08-10
1653:20 January
1626:20 January
1604:20 January
1569:References
1554:ventifacts
1488:ghost town
1376:36°45′37″N
1343:Lake Manly
1225:Ibex Hills
1191:35°40′54″N
1159:Salt Creek
771:Hells Gate
761:Hells Gate
634:Lake Manly
490:, such as
485:Mormon tea
376:table salt
157:salt flats
132:California
130:, eastern
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1484:Leadfield
1265:saltgrass
1001:magnesium
993:limestone
962:Periodic
892:manganese
840:and some
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811:sand dune
807:Hollywood
465:in 1971.
368:elevation
318:manganese
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2338:Rhyolite
2247:Ballarat
2161:Badwater
2092:minerals
1842:22 April
1546:basaltic
1509:volcano.
1411:strata.
1339:ice ages
1109:dolomite
1101:dry lake
1075:Ballarat
1005:dolomite
939:dolomite
915:concrete
884:bacteria
842:mesquite
827:feldspar
745:wetlands
697:and the
642:Badwater
620:salt pan
448:smelting
436:charcoal
325:volcanic
265:Pliocene
249:Cambrian
245:Tertiary
241:Mesozoic
155:and the
2149:History
1807:13 July
1802:Nps.gov
1782:13 July
1777:Nps.gov
1558:Kanters
1526:Miocene
1284:nitrate
1261:bulrush
1237:endemic
1016:Breccia
946:⁄
935:breccia
741:marshes
463:Arizona
432:juniper
329:Miocene
261:Miocene
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2426:SR 373
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2395:SR 127
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2232:Valley
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953:marble
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693:, the
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570:graben
499:native
459:Navajo
440:oxygen
428:pinyon
302:metals
139:Basque
2416:US 95
2368:Trona
2296:Dunes
2228:River
2110:Borax
2088:flora
2084:Fauna
1773:(PDF)
1770:"Map"
1332:butte
1233:marsh
1217:oasis
1067:Slate
1063:Argus
737:plant
717:oasis
566:horst
444:mines
391:flood
333:playa
142:miner
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