Describe the evidence for this that you see in the photographs or map.

The questions on the following page are based on Figure 45-4, a stereogram of the Stovepipe Wells region of Death Valley, California, Figure 45-5, a portion of the “Stovepipe Wells, California” quadrangle (scale 1:62,500; contour interval 80 feet; north is to the left side of the stereogram and topographic map), and Map T-27a, color aerial imagery of this same region of Death Valley. Several large alluvial fans that come out of the Tucki Mountains are coalescing to form a bajada 136°35'17"N, 117°06'35"W).





Figure 45-5: USGS “Stovepipe Wells, California” quadrangle. North is to the left side of the page (scale 1:62,500; contour interval 80 feet, dotted lines represent half-interval contours<--N).




Channels have been cut down into the tops of most fans and at the mouths of canyons; desert varnish has been eroded away along some of the channels as well.

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