The air temperature during the summer has been as high as fifty- seven degrees Celsius. The sun can heat the ground so that the temperature of the rocks and soil can be as high as seventy -four degrees Celsius.
Death Valley contains evidence of several ancient volcanoes that caused huge explosions. Evidence
of one of these explosions is called Ubehebe Crater. The explosion left a huge hole in the ground almost a
kilometer and a half wide.
In many areas of Death Valley it is easy to see where the ground has been
pushed up violently by movement deep in the Earth. This movement has created unusual and beautiful
rock formations. Some are red. Others are dark brown, gray, yellow or black.
The area was named by a woman in 1849. Thousands of people from other parts of the country traveled Lo the gold mining areas in California. They Were in a hurry to get there before other people did.One group trying to reach California decided to take a path called the Old Spanish Trail. By December
they had reached Death Valley.They did not have to survive the terrible heat of summer, hut there was
still an extreme lack of water.There were few plants for their work animals to eat.
The people could not find a pass through the call mountains to the west of the Valley, Slowly, they began co suffer from a lack of food.To survive, they killed their work animals for food and began to walk out of the Valley.
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