Stopping at Death Valley with just a limited amount of time,
choosing just three stops to visit is hard. With so many locations, our three
stops are Badwater Basin, Zabriskie Point and Devil’s Golf Course.
The first stop is Badwater Basin, which has a low elevation
of -282 feet, far below sea level. It is a salt flat which, to the eye, looks
almost like snow on the rocks. It is useful for us to notice how the land is
mostly flat up until the start of the water in the back as in the picture
below. Noticing small details such as that can help create our geologic map.
Photo retrieved from https://californiathroughmylens.com/2011/12/badwater-basin-death-valley-lowest-poin/
Zabriske point is another location within Death Valley, an
area which was likely created due to lakes. It looks like the rocks have been
eroded due to possible past hints of lakes, however were those the reasons that
there are lines running along the along many other spots of the peak?
Photo by Hemant Bhagwat, retrieved from https://www.pandotrip.com/zabriskie-point-the-iconic-site-in-the-death-valley-usa-11218/
The last spot is Devil’s Golf Course. Located within Death
Valley, this area is filled with lots of spiking salt. It is a very interesting
looking area, rather flat and surrounded by hills and mountains. While making a
map, it might be useful to find whether the cracks in the area were created thanks
to past roaming water, probably a lake just due to the size of it all.
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