Salton Sea
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The Salton Sea is a shallow, landlocked, highly saline endorheic lake in Riverside and Imperial counties in Southern California. It lies on the San Andreas Fault within the Salton Trough, which stretc
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Yuma Project – Dry bed of Colorado River below Imperial Intake, 1906
The New River passes from Mexicali, Baja California, to the Imperial Valley, and on to the Salton Sea.
Abandoned, salt-encrusted structures on the Salton Sea shore at Bombay Beach
Lake Cahuilla
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Lake Cahuilla was a prehistoric lake in California and northern Mexico. Located in the Coachella and Imperial valleys, it covered surface areas of 5,700 km2 to a height of 12 m above sea level during
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…course and river delta. For thousands of years, the river alternately flowed into the valley or diverted around it, creating either a salt lake called Lake Cahuilla or a dry desert basin, respectively. When the river diverted around the valley, the lake dried completely, as it did around 1580. Hundreds of archaeological…
Region of Lake Cahuilla; the dark green patch is the rough extent of Lake Cahuilla
The Salton Trough and Colorado River Delta from space
Present day drainage system of the Salton Sea
The present-day Alamo River