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  2. Places of interest in the Death Valley area - Wikipedia

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    Dolomite promontory at Mosaic Canyon, with view of Death Valley. Mosaic Canyon's polished marble walls are carved from the Noonday Dolomite and other Precambrian carbonate rocks. These rock formation began as limestone deposited during Late Precambrian (about 850–700 million years ago) when the area was covered by a warm sea.

  3. Death Valley National Park - Wikipedia

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    Death Valley is the fifth-largest American national park and the largest in the contiguous United States. It is also larger than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined, and nearly as large as Puerto Rico. [10] In 2013, Death Valley National Park was designated as a dark sky park by the International Dark-Sky Association. [11]

  4. Stovepipe Wells, California - Wikipedia

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    Hikers walk through the narrows of Stovepipe Wells's Mosaic Canyon Stovepipe Wells's Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes Late Precambrian Noonday Formation scoured in Stovepipe Wells's Mosaic Canyon by episodic flow. (USGS photo) Close to town are some fairly large and accessible stationary sand dunes on the floor of Death Valley.

  5. Lone adventurer found dead after fall in Death Valley canyon

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    Hikers make their way through the narrows of Mosaic Canyon at Death Valley National Park in July 2010. The body of a man who apparently fell 30 feet was found this month in the canyon, authorities ...

  6. Don't let Death Valley's name scare you. This national park ...

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    Death Valley is known as America’s hottest, driest and lowest national park. It holds the Guiness World Record for the highest temperature ever recorded anywhere: 134 degrees on July 10, 1913 ...

  7. Death Valley will likely reopen Oct. 15. Here's what ... - AOL

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    Death Valley will reopen access to Furnace Creek, the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Zabriskie Point and Dante's View, and Badwater. But many roads will be closed. Death Valley will likely reopen Oct. 15.

  8. Geology of the Death Valley area - Wikipedia

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    Little is known about the history of the oldest exposed rocks in the area due to extensive metamorphism.This somber, gray, almost featureless crystalline complex is composed of originally sedimentary and igneous rocks with large quantities of quartz and feldspar mixed in. [1] The original rocks were transformed to contorted schist and gneiss, making their original parentage almost unrecognizable.

  9. List of canyons - Wikipedia

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    Titus Canyon, Death Valley, California (also in Death Valley: Golden, Mosaic and Natural ... A submarine canyon is a steep-sided valley with nearly vertical walls ...

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