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The Salton Sea is a shallow, landlocked, highly saline endorheic lake in Riverside and Imperial counties at the southern end of the U.S. state of California. It lies on the San Andreas Fault within the Salton Trough, which stretches to the Gulf of California in Mexico. The lake is about 15 by 35 miles (24 by 56 km) at its widest and longest.
An illustration from a 1902 printing of Moby-Dick, one of the renowned American sea novels. Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.
In Sue Grafton's 1982 novel, A is for Alibi, Kinsey Millhone travels to the Salton Sea (presumably Salton City) for an interview with Greg Fife, who is living in a trailer by the sea. Salton City was a location for a gambling loan in Norm Macdonald's pseudo-biographical book Based on a True Story: Not a Memoir.
A drying Salton Sea may be helping delay the next Big One, but that could result in a more powerful quake when it does strike.
An air of decline and strange beauty permeates the Salton Sea, the largest lake in California that is on the verge of drying up as it competes against coastal cities for dwindling water resources ...
The Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge has recorded 424 species of birds. Located on the Pacific flyway, heavy migrations of waterfowl, marsh and seabirds occur during spring and fall.
Before that wi' Salton I'd wear gowd on my head, Wear gowd on my head, or gowns fring'd to the knee; And I'll die if I getna my love Auchanachie. "O Salton's [a] valley lies low by the sea, He's bowed on the back, and thrawin on the knee;"..... "O Salton's a valley lies low by the sea; Though he's bowed on the back and thrawin on the knee,
Salvation Mountain at the LOVE IS UNIVERSAL area; 2008 photo. Salvation Mountain is a hillside visionary environment created by local resident Leonard Knight (1931–2014) in the California Desert area of Imperial County, north of Calipatria, northeast of Niland, near the Slab City squatter/art commune, [1] and several miles from the Salton Sea.