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Sources and Additional Information

Source(s); The Salton Sea - Geology, History, Potential Problems, Politics, and Possible Futures of an Unnatural Desert Salt Lake by Larry C. Oglesby - 2005 p. 9-11, as part of Memoirs of the Southern California Academy of Sciences (first published 1938) and The Salton Sea - A Study of the Geography, the Geology, The Floristics, and the Ecology of a Desert Basin by Daniel Trembly MacDougal and Collaborators - 1914 p. 16 and Recognition on Space Photographs of Structural Elements of Baja California from the United States Department of the Interior - 1971

Image(s); New Constraints on Baja California-North America Relative Plate Motion Since 11 Ma by Scott Bennett, E.K., Skinner, Lisa A, Darin, Michael H, Paul J. Umhoefer, Michael E. Oskin, and Rebecca J. Dorsey

Notes; Other names associated with the region include Cabazon Valley, Salton Station, Salt Creek, and the Colorado Desert.

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Wikipedia

 

Additional information from: Google Books

 

The Salton Sea - Geology, History, Potential Problems, Politics, and Possible Futures of an Unnatural Desert Salt Lake

It is important to know about the level of documentation in this book and realize that almost one third of it is devoted to bibliographical references.

 

Additional information from: USGS

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