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  2. Death Valley - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. Death Valley National Park - Wikipedia

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    Death Valley National Park is a national park of the United States 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 .

  4. Zabriskie Point - Wikipedia

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    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 Valley came into existence.

  5. Badwater Basin - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Mojave Desert - Wikipedia

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    The Mojave Desert is one of the best protected distinct ecoregions in the United States, [2] as a result of the California Desert Protection Act, which designated 69 wilderness areas and established Death Valley National Park, Joshua Tree National Park, and the Mojave National Preserve. [44]

  7. Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat ...

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    In eastern California's sizzling desert, a high of 128 F (53.3 C) was recorded over the weekend at Death Valley National Park, where a visitor, who was not identified, died Saturday from heat ...

  8. Tourists flock to Death Valley to experience 132F temperatures

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    Tourists are flocking to Death Valley hoping to experience record breaking temperatures. Death Valley in California hit a US record of 134 degrees Fahrenheit (56.6C) in 1913. The US National ...

  9. Did Death Valley temps really reach 130 as viral ... - AOL

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    An intense heat wave melted away long-standing records across the western United States this past week, making it unbearably hot in cities from California through Nevada. Death Valley was sizzling ...