Sentences with phrase «dry lake bed»

Footprints of mammoths, dated to 43,000 years ago, are seen in a portion of a trackway that was uncovered by researchers in 2017 in an ancient dry lake bed in Lake County, Oregon.
Photographer Nick Brandt spent months on dry lake beds and dusty plains, waiting to capture images of African wildlife in what he calls their «state of being».
He also currently leads Drum circles here in Las Vegas on the desert, dry lake bed which have attracted over 500 people.
In 1905 the Colorado River flooded and water overflowed in to the then dry lake bed that is now called the Salton Sea.
Spine of the Earth was originally created on the El Mirage Dry Lake bed in the Mojave Desert of California in the fall of 1980.
In one of the hottest, driest places on earth, velvety sand dunes surround dry lake beds that, with luck, fill with spring rains.
That may not play well for marketers who love to show their cars hustling over Alpine passes or powersliding on dry lake beds, but it's probably more consistent with the way buyers actually drive, and it's certainly more in line with Our Autonomous Future.
Question: When I remove the loaves from the oven, and cool them, the crust cracks all over like a dry lake bed.
Large boulders like this one wander across the flat clay surface of Racetrack Playa, a dry lake bed in Death Valley National Park in California, leaving long furrows but no hint of what propelled them.
He had built a sailboat on wheels called Greenbird that in 2009 broke the land - speed record for a wind - powered vehicle, reaching 202 kilometers per hour on a dry lake bed in Nevada.
Meanwhile aerospace company Northrop Grumman has tested miniaturized starshades at a dry lake bed in Nevada and at a giant solar telescope in Arizona.
Okin, a wind erosion expert, tells me he got caught in one such storm just the other day on a dry lake bed.
We move to another site, a dried lake bed, and start peeling shale off the edge of a cliff.
The polygonal blocks may be the result of contraction processes similar to those that create the cracked mud in dry lake beds on Earth.
# 98 Rocks of Death Valley To commune with the mysterious boulders of Death Valley National Park, which seem to move on their own, hop in a four - wheel drive and cruise over to Racetrack Playa, a dry lake bed about three miles long and two miles wide.
But previous radar observations viewed the apparent lakes at an angle, and therefore did not see bright radar glints reflected back from their surface, leaving open the possibility that the features were dry lake beds or patches of soot.
The planet Mars has long drawn interest from scientists and non-scientists as a possible place to search for evidence of life beyond Earth because the surface contains numerous familiar features such as dried river channels and dried lake beds that hint at a warmer, wetter, more earthlike climate in the past.
This photograph was from the very first photo shoot that Ashley and I did three years ago in the dry lake bed of Las Vegas.
We juke right just before Ensenada, following Highway 3 until we come to an unmarked entrance for Laguna Diablo, a dry lake bed northwest of San Felipe.
And so I felt a sense of occasion as I drove the 2016 Mercedes - AMG GT S down the entrance road from the brow of the hill overlooking the track and into the dry lake bed where the circuit was built.
Stand on the parched, dusty surface of El Mirage, a dry lake bed north of Los Angeles that covers almost 76,000 acres, and as the sun dips behind the mountains to the west and the landscape adopts an eerie silence, it's just you and your shadow, stretching dozens of metres towards the east behind you.
The Bonneville Salt Flats is a logical location, but von Koenigsegg knew the car would have required too many modifications to safely run on the dry lake bed.
The two GM performance cars lined up for a half - mile sprint on the dry lake bed.
The 550 - mile (885 - km) race offers a variety of rough terrain, from salty desert wallows, to dry lake beds and mountain passes as high as 8,000 ft (2,438 meters) above sea level.
Here the Honda Ridgeline sits next to the Racetrack, a dry lake bed, and beyond the rocky outcrop of the Grandstand.
I could not resist switching off the traction control and tossing the vehicle around at high speeds on the dry lake bed.
But before we got behind the wheel, we were taken for a wild ride over the dunes by a Mercedes - Benz test driver, who fired the big pickup across the sand at breakneck speeds before performing a round of donuts on a dry lake bed to prove just how well engineered the G63 AMG 6x6 really is.
The course encompasses a wide array of grueling terrain, from silty desert wallows, to dry lake beds and mountain passes as high as 8,000 ft. above sea level.
«There is no lake at Camp Green Lake,» where Stanley and his fellow campers (imagine the cast from your favorite prison movie, kid version) must dig one five - by - five hole in the dry lake bed every day, ostensibly building character but actually aiding the sicko warden in her search for buried treasure.
For example, take a track like Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca... The track is built on a dry lake bed and the area is nothing but dirt and sand.
And six years later, Michael Heizer created one of his first earth works here, a zigzag trench incised like an abstract painting into the surface of a dry lake bed.
At first glance a dry lake bed in the southern California desert seems like the last place to prepare to study ice.
In this Nov. 17, 2014 file photo, boat slips sit on the dry lake bed at Brown's Marina at Folsom Lake, near Folsom Calif..
Blowing dust, laden with pesticides and other chemicals, is routinely scoured from the dry lake bed and poses a severe public health hazard.
Most people don't realize that the sport started out in the dry lake beds of the hot California deserts.
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