The lake was nearly 100 miles (160 km) long and 600 feet (180 m) deep. According to current geological consensus, at various times during the middle of the Pleistocene era, which ended roughly 10,000–12,000 years ago, an inland lake, Lake Manly, formed in Death Valley. Furnace Creek and the Amargosa River flow through part of the valley and eventually disappear into the sands of the valley floor.ĭeath Valley also contains salt pans. The eastern end of the left lateral Garlock Fault intersects the Death Valley Fault. The valley is bisected by a right lateral strike slip fault system, comprising the Death Valley Fault and the Furnace Creek Fault.
It lies at the southern end of a geological trough, Walker Lane, which runs north to Oregon. Map showing the system of once-interconnected Pleistocene lakes in eastern California (USGS)ĭeath Valley is a graben-a downdropped block of land between two mountain ranges. The highest point in Death Valley National Park is Telescope Peak, in the Panamint Range, which has an elevation of 11,043 feet (3,366 m). The Grapevine Mountains and the Owlshead Mountains form its northern and southern boundaries, respectively. It runs from north to south between the Amargosa Range on the east and the Panamint Range on the west.
Lying mostly in Inyo County, California, near the border of California and Nevada, in the Great Basin, east of the Sierra Nevada mountains, Death Valley constitutes much of Death Valley National Park and is the principal feature of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve. This reading, however, and several others taken in that period are disputed by some modern experts. On the afternoon of July 10, 1913, the United States Weather Bureau recorded a high temperature of 134 ☏ (56.7 ☌) at Furnace Creek in Death Valley, which stands as the highest ambient air temperature ever recorded on the surface of the Earth. It is 84.6 miles (136.2 km) east-southeast of Mount Whitney - the highest point in the contiguous United States, with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m). Death Valley is home to the Timbisha tribe of Native Americans, formerly known as the Panamint Shoshone, who have inhabited the valley for at least the past millennium.ĭeath Valley's Badwater Basin is the point of lowest elevation in North America, at 282 feet (86 m) below sea level. During summer, it is thought to be the hottest place on Earth.
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