#California Adventure Park

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TIANA'S BAYOU ADVENTURE COMING TO DISNEYLAND THIS HOLIDAY SEASON !!

Disneyland is gearing up for the holiday season! If you’re a die-hard Disney fan like me, we have some exciting updates for you. Tiana’s Bayou Adventure is coming to Disneyland  On November 15th, 2024 head on down the Bayou for the opening of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, and just in time for the Disney Holiday celebrations. The opening date of this attraction was announced at D23 by Chairman Josh…

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The Milky Way rising above the mountains in Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park

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Operation Playtime with the Green Army Patrol at Disney California Adventure 2023

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See that white layer in this hillside? That's an extremely important white layer. 680,000 years ago (give or take), a large volcanic system in what is now Wyoming erupted catastrophically, spewing ash and debris across the North American continent. You might have heard of it, it's called Yellowstone Caldera. You may notice that these pictures in no way resemble the verdant forests of the Rocky Mountains and that is because they are from Death Valley, California, located more than 620 miles (1000 km) away from the Yellowstone Caldera!

But... it gets cooler.

The hills this ash layer is exposed in, the Kit Fox Hills, have been uplifted. The mudstone and sediments here are ancient valley fill, meaning that they used to be the bottom of the valley and are now about 400'/120 m above the current valley floor. This is the action of the Northern Death Valley fault zone, one of California's longest active faults. In this area, that fault has some excellent outcrops as seen below.

Next door to Death Valley to the west is Panamint Valley. It's not quite as big or dramatic as Death Valley but it has many of the same sorts of geologic features which have formed over a shorter geologic timeframe, interestingly. The faults in Panamint Valley just move faster than those in Death Valley so things are a little more youthful over there. In the middle of Panamint Valley, we see this same Yellowstone ash layer but with a caveat - instead of a mere 400 feet, in Panamint Valley that ash is more than 500 feet above the valley floor! That suggests that the valley subsidence of Panamint Valley is about 20% faster than Death Valley. The true story is more complex than that, but it's good as a reference point. Let's see what that looks like.

It's hard to see in this aerial imagery, but near the top of this steep escarpment is that same volcanic ash layer. It's a bit thicker here because this big pile of material I've outlined is an ancient delta. Panamint and Death Valleys have repeatedly hosted large lakes during cooler and wetter times. This huge delta deposit is over 1.2 million years old at the base, and about 600,000 years old at the top (above the Yellowstone ash). As the Panamint Mountains (background) rose and the valley subsided, huge amounts of eroded rock and gravel were dumped on this delta. So what you're looking at is a 1 million year-long record of the floor of Panamint Valley! How cool is that?

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Horsetail Falls at Yosemite National Park in California USA 🇺🇸

📸 Our Planet Earth

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House Sparrow Passer domesticus

2/16/2023 Disney California Adventure Park, California

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Jim Henson's Muppet*Vision 3D (1991)

Source: Muppet Wiki

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Pacific Park

Route 66 series

Hasselblad 500c/m

Kodak Ektar 100iso

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A little comic thing since I wanted to draw out my experience with my first race, and first RunDisney event this past weekend. I ran a 10K, and coming from someone who absolutely hates running, and is winded by running one mile, I was quite nervous going into the race. However, as I started the race and maintained my planned run/walk method, I began to really enjoy running the race, especially once the race route went through Disneyland and DCA. I'm proud of myself that I finished and kept going, since there were many times during the race when I wanted to just stop. I definitely want to do another RunDisney event, and train for the next time around. It was truly one of those "magical" Disney experiences, and even though I was so much in the zone while running that I forgot like 80% of the run, it was an incredible experience!

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The Milky Way rising over Joshua Tree National Park, California

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN : ↳ Oogie Boogie Bash 2024 at California Adventure

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Taking a stroll in the ephemeral brines of Death Valley.

As a basin completely isolated from the sea, Death Valley is the ultimate sink and final destination for all of the surface and groundwater for an immense area of eastern California and central Nevada. Following an unusually wet summer and winter of 2023/2024, a lake as deep as 3 feet filled the salt pan on the flood of Death Valley and brought back a glimpse of how it must have looked when the valley contained a permanent lake in the geologic past.

Strong winds during my last visit actually pushed the lake some two miles to the north, churning up the sediment and mud of the lake bottom and turning the water to the color and consistency of chocolate milk. As the salty water evaporates from the surrounding mud, it draws the salt into long, threadlike crystals that turn the salt flats fuzzy for a brief time.

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