Titus Canyon

Titus Canyon is a deep, narrow gorge cut into the steep face of the Grapevine Mountains of the Mojave Desert, within Death Valley National Park in southeastern California and southwestern Nevada.

The gray rocks lining the walls of the western end of Titus Canyon are Cambrian age (570–505 million years old) limestone.

By the end of the Precambrian, the continental edge of North America had been planed off by erosion to a gently rounded surface of low relief.

The rise and fall of the Cambrian seas periodically shifted the shoreline eastward, flooding the continent, then regressed westward, exposing the limestone layers to erosion.

[citation needed] Another mining town-ghost town dating from the early 20th century, Rhyolite, Nevada, on the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, is also nearby to the east.