Title: Death Valley National Park - Wikipedia
Headings: Death Valley National Park
Death Valley National Park
Contents
Geographic setting
Climate
Human history
Early inhabitants and transient populations
Boom and bust
Early tourism
Protection and later history
Geologic history
Basement and Pahrump Group
Rifting and deposition
Compression and uplift
Stretching and lakes
Biology
Activities
See also
References
Explanatory notes
Citations
Bibliography
External links

Content: Ancient, warm, shallow seas deposited marine sediments until rifting opened the Pacific Ocean. Additional sedimentation occurred until a subduction zone formed off the coast. The subduction uplifted the region out of the sea and created a line of volcanoes. Later the crust started to pull apart, creating the current Basin and Range landform. Valleys filled with sediment and, during the wet times of glacial periods, with lakes, such as Lake Manly . In 2013, Death Valley National Park was designated as a dark sky park by the International Dark-Sky Association. Contents
1 Geographic setting
2 Climate
3 Human history
3.1 Early inhabitants and transient populations
3.2 Boom and bust
3.3 Early tourism
3.4 Protection and later history
4 Geologic history
4.1 Basement and Pahrump Group
4.2 Rifting and deposition
4.3 Compression and uplift
4.4 Stretching and lakes
5 Biology
6 Activities
7 See also
8 References
8.1 Explanatory notes
8.2 Citations
8.3 Bibliography
9 External links
Geographic setting
There are two major valleys in the park, Death Valley and Panamint Valley. Both of these valleys were formed within the last few million years and both are bounded by north-south-trending mountain ranges. These and adjacent valleys follow the general trend of Basin and Range topography with one modification: there are parallel strike-slip faults that perpendicularly bound the central extent of Death Valley.