Showing posts with label Furnace Creek Formation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Furnace Creek Formation. Show all posts
Saturday, April 1, 2017

Rock and Light: The Primal Elements of Death Valley, Monochrome Edition

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Sorry for going all pseudo-Ansel Adams on you all. I was playing with the photo-editing program with the pictures that I used in yesterday...
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Friday, March 31, 2017

Rock and Light, the Primal Elements of Death Valley

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When one has been under gloomy overcast conditions punctuated by periods of rain for days, the novelty can run short, even in a place w...
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Stepping From a Valley Floor into a Mountain Range: Travels in Death Valley

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To me, one of the most stunning things about exploring Death Valley is the abruptness of the landscape. There are no gentle transitions. Y...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

Travels in Death Valley: the Strange Story Told By a "Rock"...

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A beautiful collection of colorful rocks lie scattered across the surface of an alluvial fan in Death Valley National Park a few miles sou...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Two Death Valleys in One: Travels in Death Valley Version 1.0

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It's certainly not the first time I've talked about Death Valley, Version 1.0 ( see this post, for instance ), but it's also a...
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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Sunday, March 8, 2015

Like a Gigantic Babushka Doll, One Death Valley inside Another Death Valley

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Death Valley is a deep structural trough called a graben , formed by faults that stretched and broke the continental crust, mostly within...
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