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Geology Image Gallery - Flash Floods

Furnace Creek Inn.

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Furnace Creek Inn
Photo by Gerry Wolfe, NPS.

View of the Furnace Creek Inn after the floods of July 15, 1999.

Mudflow streams down Artist’s Drive.

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Mudflow
Photo by Gerry Wolfe, NPS.

Mudflow streams down Artist’s Drive, July, 1999.

Grapevine Canyon flood damage.

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Flood damage
Photo by Gerry Wolfe, NPS.

Boulders litter the road at Grapevine Canyon (East of Scotty’s Castle) after the floods of July 14, 1999. Note sign.

Golden Canyon trail flood damage.

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Flood damage
Photo by Gerry Wolfe, NPS.

Knee-high boulders remain strewn the Golden Canyon trail and parking lot after the floods of July, 1999.

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