The Salton Sea is located in a sedimentary basin at the southern termination of the San Andreas fault. High-resolution seismic data indicate that the basin formed and grew by active subsidence at its southern end.
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Stock, J. Pulling plates apart. Nature Geosci 2, 541–542 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo597
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