A Trip Through Death Valley's Geologic Past

During an estimated 2.5 billion years, the unique Death Vally region was torn apart, submerged beneath the sea, crushed by onrushing tectonic plates, and torn apart yet again. It witnessed rising and falling sea levels, a wide range of climates, mountain building and erosion, earthquakes, volcanoes, the birth and diversification of life in ancient seas, and the last 250 million years of evolution of plant and animal life on land. It was part of a number of ancient supercontinents before settling on the North American continent. This is a journey along a trail of rocks that provides a chronological and pictorial overview of the geological history of the Death Valley Region