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A
panorama
of
Zabriskie Point
, an area in
Death Valley National Park
,
California
, noted for its beautiful
erosional
landscape. It is called a
badlands
due to its difficult-to-traverse
topography
. The area is composed of sediment from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried-up 5 million years ago—long before
Death Valley
existed. It is named after
Christian Brevoort Zabriskie
, the vice-president and general manager of the
Pacific Coast Borax Company
in the early twentieth century.
Photo credit:
Daniel Mayer
/
Andrew c
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