Artist's Palette, Death Valley, California

            Artist's Drive rises up to the top of an alluvial fan fed by a deep canyon cut into the Black Mountains. Artist's Palette is an area on the face of the Black Mountains noted for a variety of rock colors. These colors are caused by the oxidation of different metals (iron compounds produce red, pink and yellow, decomposition of tuff-derived mica produces green, and manganese produces purple).

Called the Artist Drive Formation, the rock unit provides evidence for one of the Death Valley area's most violently explosive volcanic periods. The Miocene-aged formation is made up of cemented gravel, playa deposits, and volcanic debris, perhaps 5,000 feet (1,500 m) thick. Chemical weathering and hydrothermal alteration cause the oxidation and other chemical reactions that produce the variety of colors displayed in the Artist Drive Formation and nearby exposures of the Furnace Creek Formation.

Taken on: September 28, 2013

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Camera: Olympus E-M5, f/5.2, 1/60 sec, 27mm (=54mm), ISO 320 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Olympus E-M5
Lens:	OLYMPUS M.12-50mm F3.5-6.3
Aperture:	f/5.2
Exposure Time:	0.017 sec (1/60)
Focal Length:	27mm (35mm equivalent: 54mm)
ISO:	320
Exposure Bias:	-0.7 EV
Flash:	Auto, Fired
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	Low gain up
Saturation:	High
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.14 (Windows)
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