The Salton Sink is the low point of an endorheic basin, a closed drainage system with no outflows to other bodies of water, in the Colorado Desert sub-region of the Sonoran Desert. The sink falls within the larger Salton Trough and separates the Coachella Valley from the Imperial Valley, which are also segments of the Salton Trough. The lowest point of the sink is 269 ft (82 m) below sea level, and since 1906 the 343-square-mile (890 km2) Salton Sea has filled the lowest portion of the sink to a water depth of up to 43 ft (13 m).
The SaltonSink is the low point of an endorheic basin, a closed drainage system with no outflows to other bodies of water, in the Colorado Desert sub-region...
rail stop since the late 1870s. Until the advent of the modern sea, the SaltonSink was the site of a major salt-mining operation. In 1900, under Governor...
sea level, the Salton Sea, which fills the lowest part of the SaltonSink, is the lowest permanent lake in North America. The Salton Trough is commonly...
common name Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge SaltonSink U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Salton Sea State Recreation...
the Imperial Valley and SaltonSink. For almost two years the river ran unchecked into the SaltonSink, creating the Salton Sea. Many attempts were made...
formed the SaltonSink, which reached about 260 feet (79 m) below sea level. Since then the river has changed course into the SaltonSink at least three...
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being constructed in the Imperial Valley in 1905 and flowed into the SaltonSink. For decades, the Sea continued to receive sufficient quantities of water...
southern California known as the SaltonSink in the Coachella Valley, and the Imperial Valley. The SaltonSink and its Salton Sea are located below sea level;...
into the Coachella and Imperial Valleys in the SaltonSink, a dry lake bed which today contains the Salton Sea, hoping to turn the desert green with agricultural...
formation of the Salton Sea; the rivers had re-created a great inland sea in an area that it had frequently inundated before, the SaltonSink. It took slightly...
Bernardino and Riverside Counties to near the northeast edge of the SaltonSink and Salton Sea. The community of Palm Springs looks north and northeast across...
the U.S.-Mexico border and flowed into the SaltonSink (Salton Basin) for almost two years. Today, the Salton Sea, a new version of historic Lake Cahuilla...
divert Colorado River water to the SaltonSink. Alamo Canal Imperial Irrigation District Imperial Land Company Salton Sea "TO IRRIGATE ARID LANDS; INCORPORATION...
are still relatively immature. The Cahuilla Basin, also known as the SaltonSink, is part of the trough that is occupied by the Gulf of California. The...
Salt Lake, Pyramid Lake, and the Humboldt Sink are a few of the "drains" in the Great Basin. The SaltonSink is another closed basin within the Great Basin...
Thomas Cory; William Phipps Blake (1915). The Imperial Valley and the SaltonSink. San Francisco: John J. Newbegin. p. 1258. Retrieved 25 July 2010. California...
and northern Mexico. It grows in desert scrub habitat, including the SaltonSink in the Coachella Valley. Astragalus crotalariae is a bushy perennial...
reaching there; other times it turned westward toward the SaltonSink. Each time the SaltonSink received the river flow, a large freshwater lake called...
through the San Gorgonio Pass and Coachella Valley, past the SaltonSink (now filled by the Salton Sea), and east to the Colorado River where Bradshaw's Ferry...
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