The Artist's Palette is on the Artist's Drive, a 9 mile one way loop off Badwater Rd, south of the Furnace Creek junction with hwy 190.
Artist's Drive rises up to the top of an alluvial fan fed by a deep canyon cut into the Black Mountains. Artist's Palette is on the face of the Black Mountains and is noted for having various colors of rock. These colors are caused by the oxidation of different metals (red, pink and yellow is from iron salts, green is from decomposing tuff-derived mica, and manganese produces the purple).
Called the Artist Drive Formation, the rock unit provides evidence for one of the Death Valley area's most violently explosive volcanic periods. The Miocene-aged formation is made up of cemented gravel, playa deposits, and much volcanic debris, perhaps 5,000 feet (1500 m) thick. Chemical weathering and hydrothermal alteration are also responsible for the variety of colors displayed in the Artist Drive Formation and nearby exposures of the Furnace Creek Formation.The Artist's Palette is on a 9 mile one way loop off Badwater Rd, south of Furnace Creek.

[leptim]

Very nice set...love the colors.

[daacon]

Very cool love the different tones.

[Bruce Clark]

Well done Bob. Colours are awesome. Keep 'em coming

[Bob Harris]

Very nice set...love the colors.

thanks for looking, glad you like the thread and Welcome to PF, Bob

[Bob Harris]

Very cool love the different tones.

thanks Dave, a cool place to visit and there is even a one hole outhouse located on the drive. No expense spared here.

[Bob Harris]

Well done Bob. Colours are awesome. Keep 'em coming

thank you Bruce, glad you enjoyed the different series. Bob