Title: Death Valley - Wikipedia
Headings: Death Valley
Death Valley
Contents
Geology
Climate
Flooding
Ecology
History
Notable attractions and locations
In popular culture
Films
Music
Television
See also
References
External links

Content: On the afternoon of July 10, 1913, the United States Weather Bureau recorded a high temperature of 134 °F (56.7 °C) at Furnace Creek in Death Valley, which stands as the highest ambient air temperature ever recorded at the surface of the Earth. This reading, however, and several others taken in that period, a century ago, are in dispute by some modern experts. Lying mostly in Inyo County, California, near the border of California and Nevada, in the Great Basin, east of the Sierra Nevada mountains, Death Valley constitutes much of Death Valley National Park and is the principal feature of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts Biosphere Reserve. It runs from north to south between the Amargosa Range on the east and the Panamint Range on the west; the Grapevine Mountains and the Owlshead Mountains form its northern and southern boundaries, respectively. It has an area of about 3,000 sq mi (7,800 km 2 ). The highest point in Death Valley National Park is Telescope Peak, in the Panamint Range, which has an elevation of 11,043 feet (3,366 m). Contents
1 Geology
2 Climate
2.1 Flooding
3 Ecology
4 History
5 Notable attractions and locations
6 In popular culture
6.1 Films
6.2 Music
6.3 Television
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Geology
Main article: Geology of the Death Valley area
Map showing the system of once-interconnected Pleistocene lakes in eastern California (USGS)
Death Valley is a graben —a downdropped block of land between two mountain ranges. It lies at the southern end of a geological trough, Walker Lane, which runs north to Oregon.