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Showing posts with label Death Valley graben. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Death Valley graben. Show all posts
Saturday, March 10, 2018

How Low Can You Go? Badwater Basin, and a Real Hell on Earth

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Salt flats at Badwater, -282 feet. The snowcapped mountain in the distance is Telescope Peak, 11,049 feet. How bad could it be?...
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Saturday, April 2, 2016

Death Valley is Really Second Generation Death Valley: A Look at Death Valley Version 1.0

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Death Valley is a stunning example of a fault graben, a large area of crust that subsided because of extensional forces that produced wide...
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Garry Hayes
I am a teacher of geology at Modesto Junior College and former president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Far Western Section. I have led field trips all over the western United States, and a few excursions overseas, but my homebase is the Sierra Nevada, the Great Valley, and the Coast Ranges of California.
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