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| Page Type: Album Image Type(s): Scenery | Page By: Bob Sihler Created/Edited: Apr 29, 2008 / May 5, 2008 Object ID: 399805 Hits: 425 Loading... Page Score: 88.02% - 7 Votes Loading... Vote: Log in to vote |
A White WildernessAncient Lake Manly evaporated and left minerals, mostly salts, behind, creating the flat expanse of today's Death Valley, about 80 miles in length and all below sea level. Along the eastern edge of the valley is Badwater, a group of aquifer-fed pools near the lowest spot in the Western Hemisphere (at 282 feet below sea level).
Salts remaining after the evaporation of infrequent rains and the runoff from nearby alluvial fans continue to grow and reshape the salt pan, which has occasional pools, jagged salt pinnacles, and flat, pavement-like stretches marked by inches-high ridges of salt in semi-polygonal patterns.
More on the history and characteristics of the salt pan will be included in a custom object page I am working on.
This is an open-attach album, so please feel free to attach any nice shots you have of the Death Valley salt flats. Images
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