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Death Valley Geology

Erosion and Deposit
Concurrent with the down-dropping has been slow, but continous erosion. Water carries rocks, sand and gravel down from surrounding hills and deposits them on the valley floor. Beneath Badwater lies more than 9,000 feet of accumulated sediments and salts.

photo of eroded slope in Death Valley
Eroded slope

GLOSSARY > deposition, erosion


DEATH VALLEY GEOLOGY

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