page_title: Places of interest in the Death Valley area
section_title: Shoreline Butte
hierarchical_section_title: Places of interest in the Death Valley area / Shoreline Butte
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of en:Shoreline Butte in en:Death Valley. This desert butte was once an island in a lake that filled Death Valley several times during the last en:ice age and probably in ice ages before that. Notice the different horizontal linear features that are thought to be ancient shorelines from this lake which scientists call en:Lake Manly. Image by Daniel Mayer taken on 2002-03-27. © 2002 and released under terms of the en:GNU FDL.
context_page_description: Places of interest in the Death Valley area are mostly located within Death Valley National Park in eastern California.
context_section_description: This desert butte was once an island in a lake that filled Death Valley several times during the Pleistocene ice ages. Scientists call all manifestations of this large body of water Lake Manly. There are different horizontal linear features on the northeast flank of the butte that are ancient shorelines from this lake.
  It takes some time for waves to gnaw away terraces like the ones seen on Shoreline Butte, so these benches provide records of times when the lake level stabilized long enough for waves to leave their mark on the rock. The highest strandline is one of the principal clues that geologists use to estimate the depth of the lake that once filled Death Valley. Shorelines of ancient Lake Manly are preserved in several parts of Death Valley, but nowhere is the record as clear as at Shoreline Butte. Several lakes have occupied Death Valley since the close of the Pleistocene epoch 10,000 years ago, but these younger lakes were quite shallow compared to Lake Manly (See Badwater and Devils Golf Course above).
caption: Shoreline Butte
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