Picture a desert and the first vision that crops up is that of sand dunes stretching endlessly to the horizon. Undisturbed ripples of golden stand wiggle their way on the windward side, forming patterns akin to life-sized fingerprints. Mesquite Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park is a classic example of this. But the park also features a vast low-level basin that are filled with white salt-flats. The salt flat is the remnant of an endorheic lake that dries out by late spring, leaving behind hexagonal patterns of crystallline salt.
Death Valley is more than just sand dunes and salt flats. But these are two key faces of this DeVa.
Death Valley National Park
CA USA