The Salton Sea - A Study of the Geography, the Geology, the Floristics, and the Ecology of a Desert Basin #219941

The geological and biological processes of the surface layers of the earth's crust are profoundly different under subaerial exposures to those which prevail under subaqueous conditions. Any region, therefore, which may be subjected to submergence and to weather ing, alternately, will offer a changing complex of environic conditions, with accompanying disturbances in the balance and distributional movements of the organisms of the region.