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Panamint Dunes / Death Valley National Park
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Photographer: Ron Wolf
ID: 0000 0000 0812 0642 (2012-08-12)Copyright © 2012 Ron Wolf
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INFORMATION PROVIDED WITH THE PHOTO
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date of photo Apr 18, 2012
location
Panamint Valley / Death Valley National Park (Inyo County, California, US)notes The Panamint Dune Field is at the north end of Panamint Valley. This dune field formed as prevailing winds picked up sand from the dry bed of the lake that filled the valley thousands of years ago. The winds drop their load of sand when blunted by the peaks of the Cottonwood Mountains.keywords: geology, earth science, geomorphology, deposition
camera Canon EOS 7D, 180mm, f/14, 1/100 sec.
photo category: Misc. - geology
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