You know, I travelled with a great bunch of folks on the Green Tortoise, but you wouldn't know it from the pictures here.
| Dunes and Mountains, near Stovepipe Wells camp |
| ripples in the sand |
| Desert Varnish. The black stuff is desert varnish, a compound of iron and maganese that builds up slowly over hundreds of years as a result of microbial action. |
| Zabriskie Point | |
| Manly Beacon and the Red Cathedral |
| The Red Cathedral formation, behind Manley Point |
| or maybe it's called the Red Wall? |
| More red wall |
| volcanic material atop the badlands, near Zabriskie Point |
| Salt Pan, near Badwater | |
| Salt pan, near Badwater |
| Salt pan, near Badwater |
| Salt pan, near Badwater |
| Salt pan closeup, note the hairs of crystal growth |
| Ubehebe Crater | |
| Ubehebe crater |
| Ubehebe Crater wall each layer is a distinct eruption |
| Mosaic Canyon | |
| discontinuity A piece of the breccia has been broken off the wall of Mosaic Canyon (by a flood I suppose), then reattached further down, but it has also rotated 90 degrees so the grain lines run vertical |
| a fault line in the wall of Mosaic Canyon. The rocks on the right are offset by about 18 inches vertically. |
| Mosaic Canyon Narrows |
| Mosaic Canyon Narrows |
| Mosaic Canyon Narrows |
| Upper Mosaic Canyon | |
