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Death Valley National Park, California. Hillsides on the Tertiary playa beds in the Mustard Canyon area are crusted with salt 1 foot or more thick and cracked into polygonal slabs up to 10 feet in diameter.

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1960

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Death Valley National Park, California. Hillsides on the Tertiary playa beds in the Mustard Canyon area are crusted with salt 1 foot or more thick and cracked into polygonal slabs up to 10 feet in diameter. The cracks are not vertical; they are perpendicular to the slope. Circa 1960. Figure 68, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 494-B.

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