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Definition of: Salton Sink
(sôl′tən)
A depression in southern California; lowest part, 280 feet below sea level; in 1905 and 1906 became a shallow, saline lake, the Salton Sea, by an overflow of the Colorado River; originally about 450 square miles, reduced to about 300 square miles by evaporation.
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