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28 relations: Alamo River, Basin and Range Province, Brawley Seismic Zone, California, Coachella Valley, Colorado Desert, Colorado River, Crust (geology), East Pacific Rise, Ecoregion, Endorheic basin, Great Flood of 1862, Imperial Fault Zone, Imperial Valley, Lake Cahuilla, Lava dome, New River (Mexico–United States), Pull-apart basin, Rhyolite, Salton Buttes, Salton Sea, Salton Trough, San Andreas Fault, Sink (geography), Sonoran Desert, Tectonics, United States physiographic region, Walter D. Mooney.
Alamo River
The Alamo River (Río Álamo) flows west and north from the Mexicali Valley (Baja California) across the Imperial Valley (California).
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Basin and Range Province
The Basin and Range Province is a vast physiographic region covering much of the inland Western United States and northwestern Mexico.
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Brawley Seismic Zone
The Brawley Seismic Zone (BSZ), also known as the Brawley fault zone, is a predominantly extensional tectonic zone that connects the southern terminus of the San Andreas Fault with the Imperial Fault in Southern California.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Coachella Valley
The Coachella Valley is a desert valley in Southern California which extends for approximately in Riverside County southeast from the San Bernardino Mountains to the northern shore of the Salton Sea.
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Colorado Desert
California's Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert.
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Colorado River
The Colorado River is one of the principal rivers of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico (the other being the Rio Grande).
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Crust (geology)
In geology, the crust is the outermost solid shell of a rocky planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite.
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East Pacific Rise
The East Pacific Rise is a mid-oceanic ridge, a divergent tectonic plate boundary located along the floor of the Pacific Ocean.
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Ecoregion
An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than an ecozone.
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Endorheic basin
An endorheic basin (also endoreic basin or endorreic basin) (from the ἔνδον, éndon, "within" and ῥεῖν, rheîn, "to flow") is a limited drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but converges instead into lakes or swamps, permanent or seasonal, that equilibrate through evaporation.
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Great Flood of 1862
The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of Oregon, Nevada, and California, occurring from December 1861 to January 1862.
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Imperial Fault Zone
The Imperial Fault Zone is a system of geological faults located in Imperial County in the Southern California region, along the border of the United States and Mexico.
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Imperial Valley
The Imperial Valley lies in California's Imperial County.
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Lake Cahuilla
Lake Cahuilla (also known as Lake LeConte and Blake Sea) is a prehistoric lake in California and northern Mexico.
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Lava dome
In volcanology, a lava dome or volcanic dome is a roughly circular mound-shaped protrusion resulting from the slow extrusion of viscous lava from a volcano.
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New River (Mexico–United States)
The New River (Río Nuevo) flows north from near Cerro Prieto, through the city of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, into the United States through the city of Calexico, California, towards the Salton Sea.
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Pull-apart basin
In geology, a basin is a region where subsidence generates accommodation space for the deposition of sediments.
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Rhyolite
Rhyolite is an igneous, volcanic rock, of felsic (silica-rich) composition (typically > 69% SiO2 – see the TAS classification).
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Salton Buttes
The Salton Buttes are a group of five small lava domes in the lower Coachella Valley, in Imperial County, California.
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Salton Sea
The Salton Sea is a shallow, saline, endorheic rift lake located directly on the San Andreas Fault, predominantly in California's Imperial and Coachella valleys.
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Salton Trough
The Salton Trough is an active tectonic pull-apart basin.
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San Andreas Fault
The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault that extends roughly through California.
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Sink (geography)
A geographic sink is a depression within an endorheic basin where water collects with no visible outlet.
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Sonoran Desert
The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which covers large parts of the Southwestern United States in Arizona and California and of Northwestern Mexico in Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur.
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Tectonics
Tectonics is the process that controls the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time.
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United States physiographic region
This list of physiographic regions of the contiguous United States identifies the 8 regions, 25 provinces, and 85 sections.
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Walter D. Mooney
Walter D. Mooney (born November 17, 1951) is a research seismologist and geophysicist at the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Menlo Park, California (1978–present).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Sink
