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Rhyolite's train depot.

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Almost vertical “Titus Canyon” walls. It is not a good place to be if there is an earthquake!

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Amazing salt-resistant “Pupfish” in “Salt Creek” of Death Valley. In this photo, a colorful male pupfish (top) was chasing a plain-looking female pupfish (bottom). Where there is life, there is Chemistry!

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Narrow and stony Titus Canyon passage.

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Ghost town “Rhyolite” is outside Death Valley. This is an over 100 years old “bottle house”.

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I was standing in front of 20 mule-team cart.

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Chinese laborers recruited from San Francisco scraped borax off the valley floor more than 100 years ago. After paying the borax company for food and lodging, they made $1.30 a day! This is the remains of Chinese laborers’ living quarters.

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Borax company’s ruins in Death Valley.

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Rock Nettle.

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Globemallow.

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The orange parasitic “Toothed dodder” scattered in the desert like a pumpkin patch!

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Arizona lupine.

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Desert dandelion.

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Brittlebush patch in the desert.

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