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Science 11 January 1980:
Vol. 207. no. 4427, pp. 183 - 186
DOI: 10.1126/science.207.4427.183
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Tectonic Tilt Rates Derived from Lake-Level Measurements, Salton Sea, California

MARK E. WILSON 1 and SPENCER H. WOOD 2

1 U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California 94025
2 U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, and Department of Geology and Geophysics, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho 83725

Tectonic tilt at the Salton Sea was calculated by differencing lake-level measurements from two points on the sea. During the past 26 years, tilting was down toward the southeast. By 1970 differential vertical movement amounted to 110 millimeters between two gages situated 38 kilometers apart on the southwest shore. A reversal in tilt direction in late 1972 has diminished the net differential vertical movement to 60 millimeters.

Submitted on April 17, 1979
Revised on October 10, 1979

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