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See also: Colorado River.

The Colorado River has delivered a large volume of sediment to the Salton Trough and the northern Gulf of California over the past 5–6 m.y., supplying felsic material that is quickly buried and metamorphosed to form a new generation of crust transferred from the craton interior. The elevation drop of ~2000 m from the Colorado Plateau to the Salton Trough was created by Tertiary extensional collapse of the Cordilleran orogenic belt, and represents significant potential energy that drives the modern source-to-sink conveyer belt (Dorsey, 2010).

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Articles that refer to this location:

• California Highway 78, "Ben Hulse Highway," Riverside, Imperial, and San Diego Counties, California: edge Salton Trough;  edge Salton Trough; 
• U. S. Interstate 10: edge Salton Trough;  edge Salton Trough; 

Literature Referring To This Location:

• Dorsey, Rebecca J. 2010. Sedimentation and crustal recycling along an active oblique-rift margin: Salton Trough and northern Gulf of California. Geology. 38(5):443-446. {TAS-pdf}

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Date and time this article was prepared:5:43:29 PM, 4/14/2024.