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During that time, however official records report only one death, it was believed that many gold seekers lost their lives in its scorching heat. Why it was called the death valley is still disputed. It was named Death Valley in 1849, during the California Gold Rush. Due to a type of clay found in the valley, t?mpisa which means rock paint, they named the valley. Since 1000 years, timbisha were the first settlers of the Death Valley and still continue to live there, the Native American tribe.

Facts about the Death Valley

That stretched for a hundred miles and was as deep as 600ft, the floor of Death Valley was once a lake called Glacial Lake Manly, during the Pleistocene era. 049 feet, the Telescope Peak is the valley's highest point at 11. And up to 16 miles in width, it lies lowest below sea level at 282 feet in the Western Hemisphere and is 140 miles in length. Between the Panamint and Amargosa ranges, at the edge of the Mojave Desert, it is located in the southeastern part of the state. Unique in its depth, and forms part of the southwestern portion of the Great Basin, california, death valley is a dry region in Inyo County.

Eroded from the surrounding hills, 000 feet of sediment, the bedrock floor is buried beneath as much as 9. i.e, the central part of the valley. This block fault is a process that started some 30 million years ago and the valley floor still continues to tilt and sink. The death valley is a low rift valley in the earth's crust surrounded by higher block faults that at times is known to cause crustal sinking and volcanic activity.

Daytime high temperatures above 100? F was recorded for a period of 153 consecutive days, more recently in 2001. 1914 at 15? F, and also its coldest winter in January, 1913 the highest temperature of 134? F was recorded in the valley's of Furnace Creek, on 10th July. And varies in a range from 130? F in summers to a low of 32? F in the winters, the temperatures in the death valley is determined by its depth and shape.

A flash flood was reported in the valley resulting in the loss of two lives and closure of the park, in 2004. The death valley is prone to flooding at times because the arid soil is unable to absorb water, despite a low rainfall. The rain is blocked by the mountains in the west and the average annual rainfall recorded in a 50 year period of the later 20th century was only 1.66 inches. The highest average recorded was in 1913 at 4.5 inches. The death valley receives very little rainfall.

Leaving the surface soil dry, but it mostly flows underground, the Amargosa River flows into the southern end of the valley from desert areas to the east. The surface water of the valley is saline in nature and is found in ponds and marshes.

These species of the pupfish are the evolved relative of its ancestors. These fish began to develop unique characteristics in response to the climate changes of its environment. Some twenty thousand years ago, environmentalist believe that the ice-age ancestors of these pupfish swam in a vast lake. Despite the monumental changes in its environment, this species has managed to survive here for thousands of years. The most amazing occupant of the death valley is a fish called Devil's Hole pupfish. And rodents are also found here, snakes, animal lizards, a large number of small desert insects. Despite its harsh and arid climate, death valley is believed to have nearly 900 different species of plants existing.

A perfect example of the effects of environmental changes and its plant and animal adaptations to it, the death valley is unique in many ways. Annually, the valley receives more than a lakh visitors. And in 1994 designated it as a national park, 1933 President Hoover established the Death Valley and its surrounding area as the Death Valley National Monument, on 11th February.