Death Valley Study Helps Determine Evolution of Western US Landscapes
Tuesday, December 8, 2015 - 14:51
in Earth & Climate
The faulted alluvial fans near Badwater in Death Valley are amongst the most visited and classic landforms in the U.S. New mapping and dating of these landforms, presented in this open-access study by Kurt Frankel and colleagues, help to determine the timing of past earthquakes and how tectonic deformation is distributed across the western U.S.