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As temperatures swelled to 128 degrees, Death Valley National Park rangers got a call that a group of six motorcyclists were in distress. All available medics rushed to the scene, and rangers ...
Death Valley National Park by the Death Valley Conservancy; Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. CA-300, "Death Valley National Park Roads, Death Valley Junction, Inyo County, CA", 25 photos, 8 color transparencies, 3 photo caption pages "In Death Valley, a Rare Lake Comes Alive". The New York Times. Archived from the original on ...
Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert. It is thought to be the hottest place on Earth during summer. [3] Death Valley's Badwater Basin is the point of lowest elevation in North America, at 282 feet (86 m) below sea level. [1]
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 .
The Devil's Golf Course is a large salt pan on the floor of Death Valley. It was named after a line in the 1934 National Park Service guide book to Death Valley National Monument, which stated that "Only the devil could play golf" on its surface, due to a rough texture from the large halite salt crystal formations. [5]
The Eureka Valley Sand Dunes, looking south. The Eureka Valley Sand Dunes are located in the southern part of Eureka Valley.Although covering an area of only 3 square miles (7.8 km 2), the dunes rise approximately 680 feet (210 m) above the surrounding valley floor, making them one of the highest dune fields in North America. [1]
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.
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.