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Salton Trough

The Salton Trough region from orbit.

The Salton Trough is an active tectonic pull-apart basin, or graben.[1] It lies within the Imperial, Riverside, and San Diego counties of southeastern California and extends south of the Mexico–United States border into the state of Baja California.[2]

  1. ^ "Salton Trough". NASA Earth Observatory. 29 July 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  2. ^ Kearey, Philip and Frederick J. Vine, Global Tectonics, Blackwell Science, 2nd ed., 1996, pp. 131–133 ISBN 0-86542-924-3

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