loveflower 2007-2-18 02:21
Zabriskie Point
<p><font size="3">A </font><a title="Panorama" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panorama"><font size="3">panorama</font></a><font size="3"> of <b><a title="Zabriskie Point" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabriskie_Point">Zabriskie Point</a></b>, an area in </font><a title="Death Valley National Park" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley_National_Park"><font size="3">Death Valley National Park</font></a><font size="3">, </font><a title="California" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California"><font size="3">California</font></a><font size="3">, noted for its beautiful </font><a title="Erosion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erosion"><font size="3">erosional</font></a><font size="3"> landscape. It is called a </font><a title="Badland" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badland"><font size="3">badlands</font></a><font size="3"> due to its difficult-to-traverse </font><a title="Topography" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topography"><font size="3">topography</font></a><font size="3">. The area is composed of sediment from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried-up 5 million years ago—long before </font><a title="Death Valley" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley"><font size="3">Death Valley</font></a><font size="3"> existed. It is named after </font><a title="Christian Brevoort Zabriskie" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Brevoort_Zabriskie"><font size="3">Christian Brevoort Zabriskie</font></a><font size="3">, the vice-president and general manager of the </font><a title="Pacific Coast Borax Company" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Coast_Borax_Company"><font size="3">Pacific Coast Borax Company</font></a><font size="3"> in the early twentieth century.</font></p><p><small><font size="3">Photo credit: </font><a title="User:Maveric149" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Maveric149"><font size="3">Daniel Mayer</font></a><font size="3">/</font><a title="User:Andrew c" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Andrew_c"><font size="3">Andrew c</font></a></small></p>[attach]6318[/attach]<br/>