Axel Perez Week 7 Death Valley

My first stop was Badwater 1.8 billion years ago. Badwater is a basi contains 1.7 billion year old Precambrian rocks that are remnants of an ancient volcanic mountain belt with flanking deposits if mud and sand. I thought it was cool how millions of years ago, these venerable rocks were injected with magma that solidified to form the Willow Spring pluton.

The next place I visited were the Death Valley Dunes in the current day and age. The valleys I visited were the most accessible dunes which are a few miles from Stovepipe Wells. The primary source of dune sands is the Cottonwood Mountains which lie to the north and northwest. It was cool seeing all the ripples and dunes in the sand that begin to form. It is due ot the wind that continues to move sand up to the top of the pile until the pile is so step it collapses under its own weight. Every pile of loose particles has a unique angle of repose, depending upon the properties of the material it's made out of.
Overall, I enjoyed my trip to death Valley and will definitely not be coming here for retirement or to build my dream home.