Panamint Valley

Panamint Valley
location	California , United States
Mountains	Argus Range ; Slate Range ; Panamint Range
Geographical location	36 ° 4 ′ N , 117 ° 15 ′ W Coordinates: 36 ° 4 ′ N , 117 ° 15 ′ W
length	105 km

The Panamint Valley is a basin in the northern Mojave Desert in eastern California , United States . It lies east of the Argus and Slate Range and west of the Panamint Range .

geography

Map of the once connected lakes in the Pleistocene of Eastern California

The northern end of the valley is in Death Valley National Park in Inyo County . The valley runs in a north-south direction and extends from the Panamint Dunes in the north to Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in San Bernardino County in the south. The valley is approximately 105 km long and in the Hall Canyon area 16 km wide.

The Panamint Valley is crossed by California State Route 190 , which connects Owens Valley further to the west with Death Valley to the east. The only small settlement, Panamint Springs, is located on this road in the far northwest of the valley . The Trona Road runs from the State Route through the valley to Trona and the nearest town of Ridgecrest in the Indian Wells Valley about 50 km from the valley in the southwest.

features

In the Panamint Valley, the ghost town of Ballarat is about three miles east of Trona Road , near Happy Canyon .
The former Epsom Salts monorail crossed the valley.
There is a radar station at the southern end of the Panamint Valley near Ballarat.
The Barker Ranch, Charles Manson's last hiding place and the place where he was arrested in 1969, is in the southern part of the valley
The valley is an internally drained endorheic basin and a temporary lake can form, as was the case after unusually heavy rainfall in spring 2005. During the Pleistocene rainy season , inflow from a chain of streams and lakes to the northwest created a large lake known as Lake Panamint that overflowed into Lake Manly in Death Valley.

Sandstorm in the northern part
Overview of the valley
Lake after rains
View to the south from the "South Pass" which connects it to the Saline Valley

Military use

The airspace over the Panamint Valley is part of the R-2508 Special Use Airspace Complex . The Panamint Military Operating Area (MOA) spans the entire valley north of Hunter Mountain from 200 feet (61 meters) in elevation to Flight Level (FL) 180 (18,000 feet, 5486 m) with reserved air space above the same Area from FL180 to FL600 (18,288 m).

The airspace is mainly used by military aircraft from the airfields of Nellis Air Force Base , Edwards Air Force Base , Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake and Naval Air Station Lemoore for low and high altitude exercises.

Web links

Commons : Panamint Valley - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

^ Louis Sahagun: A war is brewing over lithium mining at the edge of Death Valley . In: Los Angeles Times . May 7, 2019. Retrieved May 7, 2019.
^ Samuel G. Houghton: A trace of desert waters: the Great Basin story. Ed .: University of Nevada Press. Reno 1994.
↑ AS Jayko, RM Forester, S. Sharpe, GI Smith: The last Pluvial Highstand (Late Wisconsin, Tioga Age) in Panamint Valley, Southeast California . American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2001, bibcode : 2001AGUFMPP42B0530J .
↑ Edwards AFB (dead link)

[1] Louis Sahagun: A war is brewing over lithium mining at the edge of Death Valley . In: Los Angeles Times . May 7, 2019. Retrieved May 7, 2019.

[2] Samuel G. Houghton: A trace of desert waters: the Great Basin story. Ed .: University of Nevada Press. Reno 1994.

[3] AS Jayko, RM Forester, S. Sharpe, GI Smith: The last Pluvial Highstand (Late Wisconsin, Tioga Age) in Panamint Valley, Southeast California . American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2001, bibcode : 2001AGUFMPP42B0530J .

[4] Edwards AFB (dead link)