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3/2/2006

Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park

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Latitude: 36° 25' 13.49" N, Longitude: 116° 48' 44.31" W, Coord: 36.420414°, -116.81231°
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Zabriskie Point in Death Valley offers a great view from the Funeral Mountains, across curious gullies of sedimentary rock and packed mud that comprise the badlands below Zabriskie Point, to the floor of salt-pan floor of Death Valley and the Panamint Range in the distance. It is especially striking at sunrise, so much so that photographers have made it a must-take photo during their first visit to Death Valley. Manly Beacon rises in the midst of the panorama, its striped contours testament to the tilted layers of sediment of which it is formed.

Zabriskie Point, sunrise.  Manly Beacon rises in the center of an eroded, curiously banded area of sedimentary rock, with the Panamint Mountains visible in the distance.,  Copyright Phillip Colla, image #15575, all rights reserved worldwide.
Zabriskie Point, sunrise.  Manly Beacon rises in the center of an eroded, curiously banded area of sedimentary rock, with the Panamint Mountains visible in the distance.,  Copyright Phillip Colla, image #15585, all rights reserved worldwide.
Zabriskie Point, sunrise.  Curiously banded area of sedimentary rock lies in the foreground with the Panamint Mountains visible in the distance.,  Copyright Phillip Colla, image #15601, all rights reserved worldwide.
Zabriskie Point, sunrise. Manly Beacon rises in the center of an eroded, curiously banded area of sedimentary rock, with the Panamint Mountains visible in the distance. Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California, USA.
Image: 15575  
 
Zabriskie Point, sunrise. Manly Beacon rises in the center of an eroded, curiously banded area of sedimentary rock, with the Panamint Mountains visible in the distance. Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California, USA.
Image: 15585  
 
Zabriskie Point, sunrise. Curiously banded area of sedimentary rock lies in the foreground with the Panamint Mountains visible in the distance. Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California, USA.
Image: 15601  
 

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