Death Valley Facts

The project is located at an elevation of ~730 m above mean sea level and within the Basin and Range physiographic province (BR). The BR is composed of high relief mountains or foothills separated by low-lying valleys and salt flats. The salt flats of the Amargosa do not support plant life, but Phreatophytes (deeply rooted plants) occur on their edges and near the adjacent gravel-dominated alluvial fans. Iodine bush (Allenrolfea occidentalis) grows closet to the salt flats, while saltgrass (Distichlis

Background Information of Death Valley Established as a National Park in 1933 under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Death Valley is the largest national park in the continental United States even though its total length is no more than approximately 100 miles in length. The valley is located in the Mojave Desert in eastern California and is surrounded by the Amargosa Range on the east, the Panamint Range on the west, and the Sylvania Mountains and Owlshead Mountains on the northern and southern

Rocks In geology, a rock is solid, naturally occurring, is made up of one or more minerals. Rocks are lying on the ground everywhere. Death Valley National Park is in the U.S. states of California and Nevada. It contains many mysteries, involving one of nature's strangest phenomenon where rocks seem to move all around on their own. In the remote, almost totally dry lakebed called Racetrack

My beast, also known as the shovelbug, lives in a desert ecosystem with cold nights and scorching hot days. Due to these weather changes, the invertebrate has adapted to the environment in a couple of ways, which will be explained later. Even though there is very little of it, the vegetation that is found there includes low-lying grasses/mosses and cacti. These patches of grass are scattered throughout the desert and there may be a variety of different species building their habitats in them. Aside

When one thinks of Death Valley National Park in California, the first image that comes to mind is usually an endless desert of dry, cracked terrain or rippling sand with little wildlife or vegetation. While that is what you’ll find in most of Death Valley today, it wasn’t always so. During the Holocene Eon and the Pleistocene ice ages, Death Valley had its fair share of streams and rivers, many of which originated from the nearby mountains. In fact, the driest area of Death Valley today was once an

This summer, Alice decided that she was going to go to Death Valley National Park in California. There was only one problem. When Alice asked her parents if she could go, they said no. Alice could only go if she could find at least two friends to go with her. Alice asked her two best friends, Lea and Rachel. They said yes! Alice was so excited, “This is going to be the best summer ever!” The three girls met up together at Alice’s house to discuss what they were going to need to pack. “What

The Timbisha are a Native American tribe that is federally recognized as the Death Valley Timbisha Shoshone Band of California. Located in Death Valley National Park, which neighbors the California−Nevada border, their headquarters are centered in Furnace Creek. Pauline Esteves, Maddy Esteves, and Joe Kennedy are the most prominent members of the tribe. In 2004, Joe Kennedy was elected tribal chairman and is currently a spokesperson for the tribe. Pauline Esteves, tribal elder and chairperson

The sliding rocks of racecar playa is a phenomenal mystery that was solved. It is located in the Death Valley National Park. Playa, is a dry lake bed, and rocks can be found on the floor of the playa. It had always remained a mystery about how the rocks slide down across the playa, while leaving trails behind them and cutting through the sediment. Few of these rocks weigh hundreds of pounds, and scientists wonder how they move due to their giant masses. Racetrack playa is almost perfectly flat

The Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are two of the most famous national parks in the Sierra Nevada Range. The Sierra Nevada range is located in California along the North American Plate. This range sits to the right of the San Andreas Fault and the Pacific Plate. Some referred to these parks as “The Land of Giants” which turns out to fit them quite well. The parks get this name due to the huge mountains, endless canyons and the world’s largest trees they are home for (“Sequoia and Kings Canyon

This year the National Park Service celebrates its 100th anniversary. Their mandate is to "conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein” in an unimpaired condition so that they might be enjoyed by present and future generations." I interviewed Park Service employee Daniel Craighead, an Occupational Safety and Health Specialist, to discuss how occupational safety and training supports the Park Services mandate. You develop occupational safety training policy