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Gallery: Death Valley National Park Geology

Death Valley National Park Geology

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Geological GigaPans from Death Valley National Park and the immediate vicinity.

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  1. Saline Valley Hot Springs in Death Valley National Park. Between the upper and lower hot springs.

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  2. View is to the west. Ubehebe Peak is the dark peak on the left, a Jurassic granitoid of the Hunter Mountain Intrusive Suite. The lighter rocks to the right are contact metamorphosed Paleozoic sedimentary rocks of the southernmost Last Chance Range. This is my good friend Greg Roselle's Ph.D. thesis area.

  3. The Grandstand is an outcrop of rock in the middle of Racetrack Playa, where the rocks move when nobody is watching. It was a potential emergency landing site for the North American X-15 rocket plane.

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  4. This is a panorama of 7 side-by-side vertical shots. Taken at Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California Image size is 17087 x 4670 pixels, the equivalent of a 80 megapixel capture. www.macdanzigphotography.com Will open in a new tab or window

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  5. Ubehebe Crater is a phreato-magmatic explosion crater, the result of hot magma heating ground water and triggering a steam explosion.

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  6. This is a panorama of 5 vertical shots with the 1Ds MkII and 24-105mm f4 L lens shot at 75mm/ f11 Taken at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley National Park, Nevada. www.macdanzigphotography.com Will open in a new tab or window The final image size is 13779 x 4687 pixels, which is the equivalent of a 64 megapixel capture.

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  7. The colors of Death Valley.

  8. When even geologists throw up their hands at the complexity of an area, you know it's gotta be pretty complex.

  9. What does it look like out on the playa surface? Look around and see.

  10. View from Scotty's grave. Soctty's castle is a Spanish-stlye house built by insurance executive Albert Johnson in grapevine canyon in what is now Death Valley National Park. The name is supplied by Walter Scott (AKA Death Vallsy Scotty) a local legend, and friend of the Johnsons. Construction began in 1922, but the ...

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