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Zabriskie Point

by Eduard Wichner
Zabriskie Point
10/23/201910/24/2019, 12:53 AM (6 hours before sunrise)
NIKON D90
38.0 mm (57 mm full-frame)f/9.0 1/320 s200

Zabriskie Point is a part of the Amargosa Range located east of Death Valley in Death Valley National Park in California, United States, noted for its erosional landscape. It is composed of sediments from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up 5 million years ago—long before Death Valley came into existence. The location was named after Christian Brevoort Zabriskie, vice-president and general manager of the Pacific Coast Borax Company in the early 20th century. The company's twenty-mule teams were used to transport borax from its mining operations in Death Valley.