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Manly Beacon and Red Cathedral viewed from Zabriskie Point. The Amargosa Chaos is a series of geological formations located in the Black Mountains in southern Death Valley.In the 1930s, geologist Levi F. Noble studied the faulting and folding in the area, dubbing it the "Amargosa chaos" due to the extreme warping of the rock.
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]
Dante's View is a viewpoint terrace at 1,669 m (5,476 ft) height, on the north side of Coffin Peak, along the crest of the Black Mountains, overlooking Death Valley. Dante's View is about 25 km (16 mi) south of Furnace Creek in Death Valley National Park.
Death Valley spent roughly $40,000 a year on processing and transporting cash, according to the park. By going cashless, Unger said, “We're not paying for armored car service.
July 2024 was the hottest month ever recorded in Death Valley, with a mean daily average temperature over the month of 108.5 °F (42.5 °C). [34] Four major mountain ranges lie between Death Valley and the ocean, each one adding to an increasingly drier rain shadow effect, and in 1929, 1953, and 1989, no rain was recorded for the whole year. [20]
NPS: official Death Valley National Park; Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. CA-301, "Twenty Mule Team Borax Wagons, Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA", 38 photos, 2 color transparencies, 8 measured drawings, 4 photo caption pages; Death Valley Conservancy: Original Twenty Mule Team Borax Wagons at Harmony Borax Works
Darwin Falls is a waterfall located on the western edge of Death Valley National Park near the settlement of Panamint Springs, California.Although there exists a similarly named Darwin Falls Wilderness adjacent to the falls, the falls themselves are located in and administered by Death Valley National Park and the National Park Service.
The hottest temperature ever officially recorded on Earth was 134 F (56.67 C) in July 1913 in Death Valley, though some experts dispute that measurement and say the real record was 130 F (54.4 C ...