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Salton Trough. Salton Trough area : Coachella Imperial Valleys Western half of the Mexicali Valley The Colorado River Delta in Mexico. Formation : - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Salton Trough area : • Coachella• Imperial Valleys• Western half of the Mexicali Valley• The Colorado River Delta in Mexico
Formation :• Small scale : A complex transition zone
between the right-lateral motion of the San Andreas transform fault system, and the northwestward progressing spreading ridge complex of the Gulf of California segment.
• Large scale: A deep sedimentary basin formed by the extensional forces associated with an underlying tectonic plate boundary.
Salton Trough
• A graben is a strip of land bounded on opposite sides by roughly parallel faults. Through movement of the faults, the strip of land sinks in a process called subsidence.
• The region around the south San Andreas fault is actively being stretched due to extensional deformation. Numerous faults, high levels of seismicity and a series of young volcanic buttes suggest this region may be a source for future geo-hazards
Physical Features and Characteristics of the Salton Trough Area
Alles, David L. "Geology of the Salton Trough." Western Washington University, 28 Oct. 2011. Web.
<http://fire.biol.wwu.edu/trent/alles/GeologySaltonTrough.pdf>.
"Salton Sea Tectonic Research." Salton Sea Tectonic Research. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1 June 2010. Web. 20 June 2013. <http://quakeinfo.ucsd.edu/~dkilb/NG/SaltonSea/
Introduction.html >.
Viento, Pasar. "Garben Laguna Salada by the Horns." Geocaching. Groundspeak, 14 July 2007. Web. 20 June 2013. <http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=a9e0022c-
ee64-4a24-9c7d-afc3a5830a8c>.
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