Title: Zabriskie Point - Wikipedia
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Content: This hard lava cap has retarded erosion in many places and possibly explains why Manly Beacon, the high outcrop to the right, is much higher than other portion of the badlands. Manly Beacon was named in honor of William L. Manly, who along with John Rogers, guided members of the ill-fated Forty-niners out of Death Valley during the gold rush of 1849. View of Manly Beacon from Zabriskie Point, showing convolutions, texture, and color contrasts in the eroded rock
The primary source of borate minerals gathered from Death Valley's playas is Furnace Creek Formation. The Formation is made up of over 5000 feet (1500 m) of mudstone, siltstone, and conglomerate. The borates were concentrated in these lakebeds from hot spring waters and altered rhyolite from nearby volcanic fields. In popular culture
Zabriskie Point is also the name of a 1970 movie by Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni; its soundtrack features music by British band Pink Floyd and Jerry Garcia . The philosopher Michel Foucault called his 1975 acid trip at Zabriskie Point the greatest experience of his life. This location is featured prominently on the cover of U2 's album The Joshua Tree . This location was used to represent the surface of Mars in the 1964 film Robinson Crusoe on Mars .