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This Is the Real Reason Death Valley’s Stones Glide Across the Desert

For decades, visitors to Death Valley found something impossible — heavy rocks gliding across the desert floor, leaving long trails behind them. No one ever saw them move, and theories ranged from ...

Mystery solved: What makes the sliding rocks of Death Valley move on their own

In one of the hottest and driest parts of the world, there is a phenomenon that is most unexpected. At a remote dry lake bed ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How Do Death Valley’s ‘Sailing Stones’ Move Themselves Across the Desert?

Start at the Furnace Creek visitor center in Death Valley National Park. Drive 50 miles north on pavement, then head west for another 30 miles on bone-rattling gravel roads. During the drive—which ...