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August 29, 2014

Death Valley mystery is solved

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — For years scientists have theorized about how large rocks — some weighing hundreds of pounds — zigzag across Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park, leaving long trails etched in the earth.

Now two researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have photographed these “sailing rocks” being blown by light winds across the former lake bed.


 
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