There are a number of geological anomalies in and around the area. I went there for a class on extremeophiles studying the organisms living in some of the more extreme environments.
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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’m going to show my geology ignorance here, but isn’t death valley mostly famous for being a giant featureless plain?
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yes. Take notes, you’re whole grade depends on a report of this trip.
CluckN@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Still way better than the valley of the shadow of death.
Kiosade@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Look it up on Google Maps satellite view. It’s a very hilly area!
Belgdore@lemm.ee 2 months ago
There are craters from volcanic activity in the northern part of the valley. There are dunes. It’s the hottest driest place in the US because of the Sierra Nevada rain shadow. The effect of rain in the valley is dramatic when it does rain.
weariedfae@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve never been there but it was the project location for my remote sensing class. There are some massive alluvial fans, I think it is the area for a lot of seminal papers on alluvial fan behavior and morphology. In our class we used satellite multi spectral images to map based on element composition, like how they do on other planets which was cool.
In both undergrad and grad school there were courses other people took that had field trips across the country to visit there. IIRC one was Neotectonics and the other was I think some Structure-based elective? Meaning it has faults and maybe folds (dunno, never been) that make it a seismically interesting area.