Racetrack, Death Valley

LarryDLarryD Registered Users Posts: 99 Big grins
edited November 1, 2011 in Landscapes
One dry lake bed at Death Valley is the home to the mystery of the moving rocks.. Several rocks, as large as basketballs and hundreds of pounds in weight have been moving around the playa for eons, leaving tracks in their wake... Nobody has ever seen them move, but clearly they do...

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  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited October 27, 2011
    Very nice, Larry. Looks like there's a lot of rocks out on the playa this year.
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  • BlackwoodBlackwood Registered Users Posts: 313 Major grins
    edited October 27, 2011
    cool set
    LarryD wrote: »
    Nobody has ever seen them move, but clearly they do...

    Really? I'm surprised someone hasn't done a really long timelapse and recorded the motion. It's gotta be painfully slow, but over the course of a few months I bet you'd see it.
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  • fineartblackwhitefineartblackwhite Registered Users Posts: 7 Beginner grinner
    edited October 31, 2011
    Pretty cool
  • LarryDLarryD Registered Users Posts: 99 Big grins
    edited November 1, 2011
    The first thing you see is the "Grandstand" out in the middle of the lakebed.. It's pretty cool by itself...

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  • spacefuzzspacefuzz Registered Users Posts: 102 Major grins
    edited November 1, 2011
    nice line in the first one. I really have to visit there some time.
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