An Introduction to the Geology of Death Valley

alluvial fan Amargosa River anticline aulacogen Badwater Basin and Range beneath Black Mountains block Borate borax Breyfogle burro California called Canyon Drive Cenozoic cinder cone Copper Canyon Creek fault zone crust Death Valley Fault deposited desert Dolomite dunes earth east erosion feet flat layers folded fossils Funeral and Black Funeral Mountains Furnace Creek fault Furnace Creek Formation geologic geologists gold granite Grapevine Mountains horizontal Lake Manly look Lost Goller Lost Ledge low-angle normal faults magma Mesozoic metamorphic miles million years ago minerals mines mountain ranges movement Mule Team Canyon Nevada normal fault occurred Paleozoic Panamint Mountains plate playa Precambrian prospectors Racetrack Rhyolite rocks will bend salt sand scarp schist sea level sedimentary sediments side silt Skidoo slickensides Southern Death Valley Springs stretching strike-slip fault surface syncline Telescope Peak thrust faults turtlebacks Twenty Mule Team ulexite uplifted Valley Fault Zone valley floor volcanic wind younger rocks