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The oldest rocks in the area that now includes Death Valley National Park are extensively metamorphosed by intense heat and pressure and are at least 1700 million years old. These rocks were intruded by a mass of granite 1400 Ma (million years ago) and later uplifted and exposed to nearly 500 million years of erosion.
Death Valley, California, July 3, 2017, Sentinel-2 true-color satellite image, scale 1:250,000. Map showing the system of once-interconnected Pleistocene lakes in eastern California (USGS) Death Valley is a graben—a downdropped block of land between two mountain ranges. [13]
Death Valley National Park is an American national park that straddles the California – Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. The park boundaries include Death Valley, the northern section of Panamint Valley, the southern section of Eureka Valley and most of Saline Valley . The park occupies an interface zone between the arid Great Basin ...
Badwater Basin is an endorheic basin in Death Valley National Park, Death Valley, Inyo County, California, noted as the lowest point in North America and the United States, with a depth of 282 ft (86 m) below sea level. [ 1][ 2] Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States, is only 84.6 miles (136 km) to the northwest. [ 3]
Aguereberry Point / ˈæ.ɡər.ˌbɛr.i / [1] is a promontory and tourist viewpoint in the Panamint Range, within Death Valley National Park in Inyo County, eastern California . The point's elevation reaches 6,433 ft and is named for Jean Pierre "Pete" Aguereberry, a Basque miner who was born in 1874, emigrated from France in 1890, and lived at ...
Zabriskie Point. Coordinates: 36°25′12″N 116°48′40″W. Zabriskie Point is a part of the Amargosa Range located east of Death Valley in Death Valley National Park in California, United States, noted for its erosional landscape. It is composed of sediments from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up 5 million years ago—long before Death ...
July 8, 2024 at 5:54 PM. A recent death in Death Valley, where a motorcyclist succumbed to extreme heat amid record-breaking temperatures, highlights the perilous nature of one of the four major ...
The Walker Lane is a geologic trough roughly aligned with the California / Nevada border southward to where Death Valley intersects the Garlock Fault, a major left lateral, or sinistral, strike-slip fault. The north-northwest end of the Walker Lane is between Pyramid Lake in Nevada and California's Lassen Peak [1] [2] where the Honey Lake Fault ...