Death Valley

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Death Valley
By: Kandis Jessee
I am doing my presentation on Death Valley. It is located in California and it’s the driest, hottest place on earth. Death Valley was established in February 11th of 1933. In my presentation I will be covering four main points: Basic Information, The Surrounding Mountains, The Geology of Death Valley, and Interesting Facts.
Death Valley is the lowest point on the western coast of the United States. It is two-hundred and eighty-two feet below sea level. There are nine mountain ranges that surround Death Valley. With 3.4 million acres of the park it is labeled as the biggest national park in the United States. The temperatures in Death Valley are excruciating. In the summer months, which range from May until October, the temperature gets up in the hundreds. In 1913 the highest temperature was recorded at an all time high of 134 degrees. Normal ground temperature in Death Valley is 201 degrees. In the winter and most nights the temperature can drop to almost zero degrees. The name Death Valley really doesn’t give the valley any justice because there are over a thousand plants that grow there.
There are nine surrounding valleys and mountain ranges around Death Valley. Two of these are the Black Mountains and the Funeral Mountains which lie east of Death Valley. Amargosa Valley is one of Death Valley’s neighboring valley’s which lie’s near also.
There is a lot of geology history with Death Valley. Death Valley was created mostly by powerful forces from water, wind and gravity. Also the heat and pressures from the earth have formed it, too. Tilting, faulting and erosion have a big part in the earths surface in Death Valley, too. Even today Death Valley is still being formed by earthquakes, and the earth is constantly eroding to form new basins and ranges in Death Valley.

Here are a few references that I found on the internet: www.death-valley.us, http://earthview.sdsu.edu,...