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| Salt Creek is an ephereral truck stream that flows between Mesquite Flat
(northern Death Valley) and Devils Golf Course (southern Death Valley).
Salty water in the stream flows mostly from groundwater discharge in the
late winter and spring. The active channel where water flows most continuously
is confined to a channel carved down the middle of a rising anticline
forming in the old lake basin sediments in the center of the valley (Hunt, 1975). It
is in this section of the stream where desert pupfish survive despite
the harsh desert conditions that currently exist in the valley. Highway
190 is in the upper left. Scale (1:48,000). [Note: Hit the "back" key to return to the previous tour image.] |
