MesaVerde    Death Valley National Park - Sites and References

Sites to explore

Exploratorium / Death Valley National Park: Geology in an Land of Extremes - excellent tour of the park.  Includes real media sound clips by Allen Glasner

USGS/ Geology of Death Valley National Park / Nature and Science

Death-ValleyUS.com - A site devoted to the geology of Death Valley with numerous articles, maps and images

NASA > Geomorphology From Space > Chapter 2: Tectonic Landforms > Death Valley

DigitalDesert.com / Geology of Death Valley

NPS USGS/ Geology of Death Valley > Geologists Page - contains numerous links to technical papers and resources

 

Images and Virtual Tours

Don Bain's Virtual Guidebook / Badwater / The salt flats near Badwater / wine glass valley (full screen)/ Race Track Playa - virtual reality Quicktime panoramas of evaporites and local alluvial fans

Craig H. Jones, Department of Geological Sciences, CU-Boulder / Cinder Cone in Southern Death Valley

NPS USGS / Death Valley National Park Image Gallery / 3D Photographic Tour of Death Valley

North Dakota State University / 3D Anaglyphs - relief maps and DEMs

The American Southwest / Death Valley

Golden Gate Photo / Death Valley Gallery

Marli Bryant Miller (Univ. of Oregon) / Death Valley Slideshow > Death Valley Faulting /

Sources

Harris, Ann, and Tuttle, Esther, and Tuttle, Sherwood, 2004, Geology of National Parks: 6th Edition, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 882 pp. 

Kiver, Eugene, and Harris, David, 1999, Geology of the U.S. Parklands: 5th Edition, John Wiley and Sons, Inc, New York, NY, 902 p.

Miller, Marli B., and Pavlis, Terry L., 2005, The Black Mountains turtlebacks: Rosetta stones of Death Valley tectonics: Elsevier Earth-Science Reviews v. 73, pp. 115-158.

Sharp, Robert P., and Glazner, Allen F., 1997, Geology Underfoot in Death Valey and Owens Valley, Mountain Press, Missoula, MT, 319 p.

Lindley Hanson/Department of Geological Sciences/Salem State College/QkRef