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Fault Scarps in the Alluvial Fan at Badwater / Death Valley
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Photographer: Ron Wolf
ID: 0000 0000 0412 2606 (2012-04-27)Copyright © 2012 Ron Wolf
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INFORMATION PROVIDED WITH THE PHOTO
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date of photo Apr 15, 2012
location
Badwater area. Death Valley National Park (Inyo County, California, US)notes These faults scarps near the head of the alluvial fan just south of Badwater Spring in Death Valley show vertical displacement of 10-20 ft. They were produced by a major earthquake about 2,000 years ago and provide dramatic evidence of ongoing uplift of the Black Mountains. The dark rocks to the left are part of the Willow Spring Pluton that intruded the Proterozoic gneiss forming the core of the Black Mountains during the Miocene, about 11 million years ago.keywords: geology, earth science, geomorphology, Cenozoic, Quaternary, Holocene, fault, scarp, earthquake
camera Canon EOS 7D,70mm, f/10, 1/64 sec.
photo category: Misc. - geology
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