*TRIVIA YOU DIDN'T ASK FOR:* "Death Valley Days" was a black and white TV series in the 1950s, hosted by a future governor and president Ronald Reagan. Its key sponsor was 'twenty-mule team' Boraxo, a gritty hand soap popular with auto mechanics. The mule team was a logo for both the product and the show, hauling borate in wagons out of Death Valley.
Greetings from the Netherlands, the ultra-flat country where there is no geology, only a layer of clay with sand below (and presumably rock somewhere deep down). I wish we had mountains like in the USA.
All of your videos are short, to the point, and very informative for us who know nothing about geology. Keep up the good work. I am sure that in time you will presenting your knowledge as a PhD in Geology in some college classroom.
It appears that most of the allegedly large quantities of Death Valley borax must be underground, because you dont see much borax on the surface(unless it's all been previously removed).
A lot of borax does remain on certain parts of the salt flats, but it is pretty hard to distinguish from the rest of the salts. Most of the borax mined since about the 1880s has been from underground, and there are huge deposits still there. The last borax mine closed in 2002, I believe.
@@BetterGeology @BetterGeology So, there are areas of Death Valley that are covered in a mixture of borax, sodium chloride and maybe other(white) minerals, like the Bonneville salt flats, or is it mixed with dirt, and doesn't appear consistently bright white? Are there other salts mixed in, like lithium carbonate and maybe sodium bicarbonate? ☑️With all the borax just lying around on the ground there, it really sounds like you could save a few dollars each month on laundry expenses! Are there any powdered fabric softener deposits as well? 😀
Yes, correct. They are found in certain areas, though. Mostly salt is found in the lowest parts of the valley and the flats there are bright white as a result. Where I am in this video, borates and gypsums form most of the salts in the ground, mixed with mud and gravel. Around the very edges, especially near the highway, the salts there are carbonates like calcite (and a little sodium chloride as well).
*TRIVIA YOU DIDN'T ASK FOR:* "Death Valley Days" was a black and white TV series in the 1950s, hosted by a future governor and president Ronald Reagan. Its key sponsor was 'twenty-mule team' Boraxo, a gritty hand soap popular with auto mechanics. The mule team was a logo for both the product and the show, hauling borate in wagons out of Death Valley.
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I will!
Greetings from the Netherlands, the ultra-flat country where there is no geology, only a layer of clay with sand below (and presumably rock somewhere deep down). I wish we had mountains like in the USA.
Bravo! Well done!
Many thanks!
All of your videos are short, to the point, and very informative for us who know nothing about geology. Keep up the good work. I am sure that in time you will presenting your knowledge as a PhD in Geology in some college classroom.
It appears that most of the allegedly large quantities of Death Valley borax must be underground, because you dont see much borax on the surface(unless it's all been previously removed).
A lot of borax does remain on certain parts of the salt flats, but it is pretty hard to distinguish from the rest of the salts. Most of the borax mined since about the 1880s has been from underground, and there are huge deposits still there. The last borax mine closed in 2002, I believe.
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So, there are areas of Death Valley that are covered in a mixture of borax, sodium chloride and maybe other(white) minerals, like the Bonneville salt flats, or is it mixed with dirt, and doesn't appear consistently bright white? Are there other salts mixed in, like lithium carbonate and maybe sodium bicarbonate?
☑️With all the borax just lying around on the ground there, it really sounds like you could save a few dollars each month on laundry expenses! Are there any powdered fabric softener deposits as well? 😀
Yes, correct. They are found in certain areas, though. Mostly salt is found in the lowest parts of the valley and the flats there are bright white as a result. Where I am in this video, borates and gypsums form most of the salts in the ground, mixed with mud and gravel. Around the very edges, especially near the highway, the salts there are carbonates like calcite (and a little sodium chloride as well).
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