REFERENCE: ‘Sliding Rocks on Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park: First Observation of Rocks in Motion’ by Richard D. Norris, James M. Norris, Ralph D. Lorenz, Jib Ray, Brian Jackson ...

Rocks on the Racetrack playa in Death Valley National Park. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times ) By Louis Sahagún Staff Writer . Aug. 27, 2014 1:35 PM PT . Share via Close extra sharing options.

Death Valley National Park is the only place on Earth where geology has made me laugh out loud. I am thinking specifically of an area in the northwest section of Death Valley called the Racetrack ...

But as Death Valley National Park is 95 percent designated wilderness, all research in the park must be noninvasive. It is forbidden to erect any permanent structures or instrumentation.

For decades, people have puzzled over Racetrack Playa in Death Valley, where hundreds of rocks weighing as much as 700 pounds roam across the surface of the dry lake bed. VIEW E-EDITION.

After years of speculation and failed theories, researchers finally caught the rocks in motion. Discover the natural forces that cause these eerie stones to move.

Death Valley National Park contains many mysteries, including one of nature's strangest phenomena: In the remote, almost totally dry lakebed called Racetrack Playa, some of the rocks move ...

TRAVEL DEATH VALLEY -- When the playa called the Racetrack gets wet, rocks of up to 700 pounds are believed to catch a wind and skim across like pucks on ice. No one s seen it happen, but tracks ...

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — For years scientists have theorized about how large rocks – some weighing hundreds of pounds – zigzag across Racetrack Playa in Death Valley N… ...

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (KABC) -- On a dry, flat desert stretch in the middle of Death Valley, massive rocks moving across the desert floor have been puzzling visitors for decades.

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- The cracking sounds were ferocious. An ankle-deep, frozen lake in Death Valley National Park was breaking apart under sunny skies.