Death Valley is a desert valley in eastern California in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert near the California-Nevada border. It is structurally a graben, a landmass dropped down between rising mountain ranges, with a floor elevation of 282 feet below sea level, among the lowest points on Earth. Its formation results from tectonic extension along strike-slip faulting systems, including the Death Valley Fault and the Furnace Creek Fault, part of the broader Walker Lane trough, in the extensional style of Basin and Range tectonics that produced the depression between the Panamint Range to the west and the Amargosa Range to the east.
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Death Valley (Panamint: Tümpisa [tɨmbiʃa]) is a desert valley in Eastern California, United States, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert.
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