The driving distance between Las Vegas, NV and Death Valley, CA is approximately 130 miles. The driving time would be approximately 3 hours if you were to travel non-stop in good driving conditions. (The driving time does not take into consideration conditions which may extend trip time such as weather, road work, border crossings and rush hour traffic in urban areas.)
Death Valley is about 450 million years old. The rock was formed when the earth formed. Over time, the tectonic plates moved to form the deep trench it is today.Your Welcome
It is lower than sea level which causes it to have more pressure, that combined with the fact that it is in a valley between two moutians create a hot spot.
The climate of Death Valley is that of a hot, dry desert.
As Death Valley is in America, the main language would be American English. Though Spanish is also a main language in certain areas.
Death Valley is a valley locate in the Mojave Desert, a very dry area. Death Valley has extremely hot summers with an average high temperature of 46,9 °C in July, the hottest month of the year. That extreme heat is due to the very low elevation, below the sea level which makes more column of air and more air pressure. A higher air pressure makes the air sinking more, and therefore more heating and drying by an adiabatic process. Also, Death Valley is situated between 2 mountains ranges, which adds a rain shadow effect.
Like water anywhere (pending altitude, which isn't a factor here) it boils at 100oC/182oF/373oK.
Except altitude is a factor, since the boiling point of water varies by altitude and the barometric outside air pressure (which essentially adjusts the pressure altitude up or down). Although Death Valley is only 282 feet below sea level, that's enough to push up the boiling point by almost half a degree Fahrenheit, assuming the same barometric pressure.
Both are important, because people often memorise their "local" boiling point, so that they can make allowances in cooking, without realising that the "corrected" boiling point can also vary, depending on local weather. Similarly, many sources of local barometric pressures are given "adjusted to sea level," so both have to be taken into account.
Test it for yourself:
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Obviously they find the positions of the rocks disturbing the cosmic constant. The continual movement of the rocks keeps the balance of worm hole open enabling aliens to visit us. It all started with electron and neutrino alignment but that's a long story. P.S. They like to F@#K with Earthlings. God Bless. T L
There are many kinds of animals that live in death valley. There are amphibians, mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and butterflies.
Some examples of animals are bats, gophers, mice, porcupines, mountain lions, fox, and horses. There are pelicans, vulters, and hawks. A website to find a list of the animals is <http://www.nps.gov/deva/naturescience/animals.htm>.
Death Valley National Park has a little more than 3 million acres of protected wilderness and therefore, hundreds of different kinds of animals can live there.
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It can easily reach 120 degrees at the valley floor (+/- 200 ft below sea level), the record is over 130. It may be 80-90 in the high mountainroads at the same time.
That being said, Death Valley NP ranges in in elevation from +7000 ft to -200 ft, and altitude will significantly affect temperature. If you want to see the sights without the 120 F heat, visit in Feb-Mar timeframe when it's comfortable (50-60 F) at the valley floor. You can also see snow up in the mountain roads at this time. If lucky, you can see the wildflowers blooming.
by the wind carrying dead bodies into a pit forming a valley, hints the name "death valley"
Death Valley is a block of land that has been dropped between parallel faults. It dropped so far that Death Valley is the lowest point in the United States. So, death valley was formed when it was dropped between parallel faults.
The bottom of Death Valley is the lowest place in North America at an elevation of about 282 feet below sea level.
This is also lower than anywhere in South American, Central America, or in the Western Hemisphere.
From what I've found, there is *a* Death Valley in Arizona, but the Death Valley National Park borders go through California and Nevada.
For westward travelers in the 19th century on their way to California, Death Valley was a very difficult place to cross. Temperatures are very high and water is very scarce. Not all travelers or their animals that were pulling their equipment survived the crossing.
In 1849 westward bound gold-seekers tried to take a shortcut from the main route. They parted ways with the main wagon train heading down from Salt Lake, Utah. Most turned back but a stubborn few kept moving westward across Nevada and inevitably stumbled into the lowest, driest, hottest spot in the entire Great Basin (in the Western Hemisphere for that matter). Fortunately it was winter. Their experiences were horrific and one of those pioneers died in Death Valley. But when the others escaped and looked back, one of them said "Goodbye Death Valley," probably referencing the 23rd Psalm from the Bible, and the name stuck. Check out Weird Tales 3: The Pioneer's Lost Trunk for the story.
The story for Death Valley's name is interesting, and it is on the Death Valley National Park webpage: http://www.nps.gov/deva/historyculture/the-lost-49ers.htm
Simply because the temperature gets so hot there during the daytime, that almost nothing can survive there for any length of time.
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Death Valley is located in Southeastern California in Inyo County on the Nevada border. A small part of the park extends into Nevada near Beatty, Nevada. It is about 4.5 hours from Los Angeles (northeast) and about 2 hours (northwest) from Las Vegas.
About 300 including employees of the concessionaires who run the stores, restaurants and hotels, employees of the National Park Service and members of the Timbisha-Shoshone tribe.