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Desolate Colorado Desert Wonders and Buried Volcanoes
The article surveys the Colorado desert past and present, noting the Salton Sink lake, salt crust beds, and salt evaporation. It describes mud volcanoes and submerged northern California solfataras, plus active southern vents near Cerro Prieto. Wind sculpting forms vast dunes and erodes rails and telegraph poles. A Cromwell hurricane lore ties to the Lower California coast as rain remains rare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado Desert
Torsell
Sahara
Colorado
Salton
Yuma
Mexican
California
Cerro Prieta
Imperial
Gulf
Great
Utah
Arizona
North America
Southern Pacific
Lower
Cromwell