| Furnace Creek Wash drains from the Amargosa Ranges into Death Valley
where if forms a massive alluvial fan. The location of the fan in controlled
in part by faulting along the northern end of the rising Black Mountains
(on the right). However, a man-made diversion near Zabriskie Point (near
the right side of the image) is partly diverting the drainage and migration
of sediments down Gower Gulch, a canyon in the northern end of Black Mountains.
Note that in 1948 the development of the Furnace Creek Ranch area was
limited to only a small portion of the fan. Scale (1:48,000); north is
to the left. |
