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Terms used on Life of the Salton Sea;
- Alamo Arroyo
- Algodones Dunes
- Alluvial Soil
- American Civil War
- Ancient History Timeline
- Animation of Tectonic Plate Movement
- arroyos
- Backwash
- Battleships
- Bypass Channel for the Chaffey Headgate
- Cahuilla Basin
- Cahuilla Valley
- California Development Company
- California Gold Rush
- CDC
- channel to the east of Disaster Island
- Coachella Valley
- Colorado Desert
- Colorado River
- Crustal Spreading
- Cutback
- Dredged
- Dyke
- Early History Timeline
- Edinger Dam
- Event Title
- Fascines
- Flood Timeline
- Fresno Scrapers
- Full Timeline
- Hanlon Headgate
- Hanlon Heading
- Headgate
- Headings
- Hind Dam
- Imperial / Alamo Canal
- Imperial Valley
- Jetty
- La Palma de la Mano de Dios
- Lake Cahuilla
- Lewis and Clark Expidition
- Lower Mexican Heading
- mattresses
- Newlands Reclamation Act
- Pilings
- Recent History Timeline
- Reclamation
- Rockwood Headgate
- Rockwood Headgate Map
- Salton Basin
- Salton Sea
- Salton Sink
- Salton Trough
- Scoured
- Sliding Out
- small island
- Spinning Off Downstream.
- Split in Half
- SPR
- Steamers
- Subsided
- Tectonic Movement
- Thomas J. Hind
- Train trestle bridge was hastily erected
- Train Wreck
- upper 4 mile section
- Upper Mexican Heading
- William Phipps Blake
