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Death Valley: Death Valley Geology Featured GeologyThe Mystery of the Racetrack PlayaThe level surface of this parched basin provides the backdrop for one of Death Valley's most intriguing geological puzzles, the mysterious sliding rocks of ...Fire & Water - Ubehebe Crater... searing basaltic magma rose upward. A fault along the western base of Tin Mountain, ...Dante's ViewHere, steep, elongate mountain ranges alternate with flat, arid, desert valleys in a pattern that ...Badwater BasinBeneath the dark shadows of the Black Mountains, a great, extraordinarily flat expanse of shimmering white spreads out before you. You are at Badwater, ...Mosaic CanyonMosaic Canyon's polished marble walls are carved from the Noonday Dolomite and other Precambrian carbonate rocks. These rock formations...Golden CanyonLike pages in a book, its rocks tell tales of ancient times when a lake once covered ...Alluvial FansRising almost halfway up the steep mountain front of the Panamints are great aprons of rocky debris that spread out toward the deep ...Sand Dunes in Death ValleyLess than one percent of the desert is covered with dunes, yet the shadowed ripples and stark, graceful curves define ...Walk Through TimeThe sample rocks in this tour are only "some" of the major geologic formations ... |
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