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  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). 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.
from: Wikipedia
  
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