Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface XI
4. 1. What Is Death Valley?
5. The Landscape 1
6. Salt 4
7. Water 4
8. Sand Dunes 5
9. Gravel Fans 5
10. Mountains 6
11. Climate 7
12. Plant and Animal Geography 9
13. People 9
14. 2. Water
15. Lakes, Wet and Dry 11
16. Quantity and Quality of Death Valley Water 16
17. Sources 18
18. Streams 22
19. Springs 26
20. Estimating Discharge 30
21. 3. The Salt Pan: Orderliness in the Natural Environment
22. Salt Minerals—Their Zoning and Geologic History 36
23. Patterned Ground 55
24. The Salt Pan—An Outdoor Museum 64
25. 4. Gravel Fans
26. Introduction 67
27. Differences in Fans 68
28. Fan Patterns 70
29. Ages of Gravel 73
30. Kinds and Sizes of Stones 78
31. Faulting across the Mouth of Furnace Creek Wash 80
32. Desert Pavement 80
33. Desert Varnish—the Black Stain 83
34. Wind Effects 84
35. Mudflows 85
36. 5. Rocks: A Billion Years of Death Valley History
37. Introduction 88
38. Time Sequence 89
39. Kinds of Rocks and Their Locations 94
40. 6. How the Rocks Broke
41. Introduction 119
42. Present-Day Earth Movements 120
43. Death Valley's Last Major Earthquake 126
44. Earlier Earthquakes 130
45. Valleys before Death Valley 132
46. Faults, Granite Intrusions, and Volcanism 134
47. 7. Mines and Mining
48. Present Problem in Death Valley 146
49. Mining History 147
50. 8. Archaeology of Indian Occupation
51. Chronology 157
52. Death Valley I Indians 159
53. Death Valley II Indians 162
54. Third Stage—Arrival of the Bow and Arrow 164
55. Death Valley IV Indians—Arrival of Pottery 168
56. 9. Archaeology since 1849
57. Introduction 174
58. Old Trails 175
59. Archaeology of Litter 178
60. 10. Plant and Animal Geography
61. Climatic Zoning of Plants 186
62. Water Supply of Plants 187
63. Changes in Plant Stands 208
64. Burros and Bighorns 210
65. Other Big Game 212
66. Small Game 214
67. Reptiles 215
68. Fish 216
69. Birds and Pests 217
70. Acknowledgments 219
71. Bibliography 221
72. Index 229