Just back from a great 2 day trip to Death Valley National Park. First challenge - getting out of LA on a busy Friday afternoon driving an automatic car for the first time in a long while. After a few near death experiences, we got the hang of it and off we went. Two arid zone geomorphology enthusiasts HAD to love Death Valley with its tufa pinnacles at Trona, salt weathering at Badwater, reversing dunes at Mesquite Flats and gullies galore at Zabriskie Point. How could you not love them?...
Tufa pinnacles at Trona. This tufa formed in an ancient lake, rather like the travertine that makes up the Getty Center buildings. Could this be what the ruins of the Getty will look in 18,000 years?!
Salt pan at Badwater, Death Valley
Gullies at Zabriskie Point, Death Valley.
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