The Salton Sea is a 376 square mile (970 km2) saline, endorheic rift lake located directly on the San Andreas Fault N of the Mexican border. The lake occupies the lowest elevations of the Salton Sink in the Colorado Desert of Imperial and Riverside Counties in Southern California. Currently, its surface is 226 ft (69 meters) below sea level. The sea is fed by the New, Whitewater, and Alamo rivers (Wikipedia).
References
Brown, J.S. (1923), The Salton Sea region, California: USGS, Water Supply Paper 497.
Stafford, J.S. (1923) The Salton Sea region, California. USGS Water Supply Paper 497, 292 pp.
Rogers, Austin Flint (1925), Geology of Cormorant Island, Salton Sea, Imperial County, California […(abstract): Geological Society of America Bulletin: 37: 219; …Pan-Am Geologist: 435: 249-250 (1926)].
Berkholz, Mary Frances (1958), Salton Sea glauberite: Gems and Minerals, No. 245 (Feb 1958): 17-19.
Skinner, Brian John,, White, D.E., Rose, H.J., Mays, R.E. (1967) Sulfides associated with the Salton Sea geothermal brine. Economic Geology: 62: 316-330.
Keith, T.E.C., Muffler, L.J.P., and Cremer, M. (1968) Hydrothermal epidote formed in the Salton Sea geothermal system, California. American Mineralogist: 53: 1635-1644.
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