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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". nytimes.com. The New York Times.
Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, the hottest place on Earth during summer, with a lowest elevation of 282 feet below sea level. It is part of Death Valley National Park and the Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve, and has a rich geological and cultural history.
Racetrack playa is approximately 3 miles long and 1.2 miles wide and is located at a height of 3708 feet in a north-south valley east of the Panamint Range within Death Valley National Park. It receives only 3 inches of annual precipitation and is bounded on all sides by north-south ranges rising 1500 to 2000 feet.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Death Valley was 134 degrees in 1913. The park came close to breaking the record on July 7, 2024, when temperatures reached a staggering 129 degrees, the ...
The park usually experiences about 2 inches of rainfall each year, but almost 5 inches have fallen on the valley floor in the past six months, McClatchy News previously reported.
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).
Death Valley National Park had its hottest meteorological summer (June-August) on record, with an average 24-hour temperature of 104.5°F (40.3°C).
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]