Taking a stroll in the ephemeral brines of Death Valley.
As a basin completely isolated from the sea, Death Valley is the ultimate sink and final destination for all of the surface and groundwater for an immense area of eastern California and central Nevada. Following an unusually wet summer and winter of 2023/2024, a lake as deep as 3 feet filled the salt pan on the flood of Death Valley and brought back a glimpse of how it must have looked when the valley contained a permanent lake in the geologic past.
Strong winds during my last visit actually pushed the lake some two miles to the north, churning up the sediment and mud of the lake bottom and turning the water to the color and consistency of chocolate milk. As the salty water evaporates from the surrounding mud, it draws the salt into long, threadlike crystals that turn the salt flats fuzzy for a brief time.
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illustra; badwater basin in death valley, california
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Artist's Drive in Death Valley, 1989
Mickey Crisp
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Dandelion Moon - Wilfred Wong by Baldovino Barani x FACTORY Fanzine
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Thurston Moore 📸 by Richard Kern, Death Valley '69
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Death Valley
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Casey McCallister \\ Instagram
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Astronomer Carl Sagan stands in front of a Viking lander mockup in Death Valley, California, c. late 1970s.
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Death Valley has numerous really great drives. There's Artist Palette (top photo), Twenty-mule Team Canyon (middle image), and the ride up to Dante's View (third photo).
- Sandy Noto
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painted peaks; death valley, california
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Photography by Xuebing Du
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