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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]
Shorelines of ancient Lake Manly are preserved in several parts of Death Valley, but nowhere is the record as clear as at Shoreline Butte. Several lakes have occupied Death Valley since the close of the Pleistocene epoch 10,000 years ago, but these younger lakes were quite shallow compared to Lake Manly (See Badwater and Devils Golf Course above).
Lacus Mortis / ˈ l eɪ k ə s ˈ m ɔːr t ɪ s / (Latin mortis, "Lake of Death" [1]) is a hexagonal-shaped plain of basaltic lava flows in the northeastern part of the Moon's near face. It was formed as a floor-fractured crater during the pre-Imbrian epoch, then flooded during the late Imbrian period. [2]
A paddle boarder paddles through water Thursday at Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park, Calif. Kayakers and visitors have flocked to the park to take advantage of the ephemeral waters ...
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A temporary lake formed in Death Valley National Park due to intense rain hitting California. Nature lovers took advantage of the rare event.
Lake Manly was a pluvial lake in Death Valley, California. It forms occasionally in Badwater Basin after heavy rainfall, but at its maximum extent during the so-called "Blackwelder stand," ending approximately 120,000 years before present, the lake covered much of Death Valley with a surface area of 1,600 square kilometres (620 sq mi). Water ...
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