One of the most breathtaking entrances to Death Valley is known as Titus Canyon, a canyon carved into the Grapevine Mountains of southeastern California. The picture above displays a remarkable outcrop, consisting of angular blocks of gray limestone in a white calcite cement. There are two hypotheses about its identity, it is either a fault breccia or a debris flow breccia. One of the most fascinating parts about Titus Canyon is not the transgressive sequence tract, but the deformation that occurred hundreds of millions years later. These astounding geological formations in the canyon make me question the origin of how Titus Canyon was formed. By looking at a geological map I would be able to determine what kinds of rocks and structures are present in the canyon.
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