- Year Taken
- 1960
- Category
- Arid Zone
- Location
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Death Valley National Monument
Inyo County, Ca. - Credit
- ID. MALDE, 455
- Filename
- mhe0455.png
- Description
- View of the gravel fans rising from the edge of the salt-pan to the foot of the Panamint Range at the mouth of Hanaupah Canyon. The youngest gravels, the light colored areas on the fans, are along the present washes and are important areas of recharge by floods issuing onto the fans from the mountains. The older gravels, stained dark with desert varnish, form terraces and are capped by desert pavement; these gravels favor run-off. The snow-capped peak is Telescope Peak, altitude 11,049 feet, the highest point on the rim of the hydrologic basin. Foreground is 260 feet below sea level. Death Valley National Monument, Inyo County, California. ca. 1960.
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