Moving rocks of Death Valley Mystery

Moving rocks of Death Valley Mystery

In the eastern Panamint mountains in the region Death Valley National Park, California, there is a place called the Racetrack Playa. It is located 3708 above sea level, length of 2.8 miles and 1.3 miles wide. Tampat has almost the same height position of the north end to south end. The north end only 5 cm higher than the south end. This is where one of the mysterious phenomena that appear puzzling. The stones that moves by itself.

 
Playa is a dry lake. When the period of heavy rain, water will flow down from the mountains nearby entrance to Playa and forming a shallow lake that was short-lived. When the weather turned hot, shallow body of water that evaporates and leaves a thin layer of mud and soft.

When the mud dries up, he began to shrink and break down to form a beautiful mosaic. And this is where a strange phenomenon occurred.

It looks like when no one was looking, dolomite stones torn from the cliff moving by themselves walking across a dry lake surface. The stones were leaving a trail clearly visible above ground, the only evidence to suggest that they actually move.

This phenomenon has actually been known to be more than a hundred years ago by the explorers and gold miners. But more seriously study the newly made ​​in 1948. To this day, this phenomenon is still not yet be explained satisfactorily.       
                                       

There are two main theories about the cause of this phenomenon. The first claims the cause is a thin layer of ice on the surface of the ground. Whereas the other theory says the cause is moisture and wind.

Which would all agree that humans cause it's not human footprints have not been seen on the surface of the ground.


(wikipedia)