Shoreline Butte. Evidence of the once massive Lake Manly that occupied Death Valley.
Pondering the linear nature of the hills behind us and funny looking hills across from us.
Basalt fissure flows along a large normal Fault near Shoreline Butte.
Z was very good and earned a bit of Switch time while the adults did more learning.
The Mormon Point Turtleback - a low angle normal fault that once had the Panamint Mountains sitting atop it. They've since "slid" off to the other side of Death…
Charles captures the great light.
Lake Manly Playa. AKA Death Valley.
The students get to sit on the metamorphic core complex of the Yavapai-Mazatzal mountains that formed about 1.8 -1.6 billion years ago. There are lots of great…
Z and his pupfish "Timmy". Amongst the oldest rocks in California.
Rad epidote crystals.
I picked this one up, so there are only 98 red balloons left.
Gneiss light.
Epidote and a shadow.
A metamorphic wonderland for Timmy the pupfish.
This looks like a metaconglomerate.
Looking up the alluvial fan to the source of the amazing metamorphic rocks.
Gower Gulch. Badwater was massively busy with no place to park.