When

Wednesday, November 1, 2017 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM PDT
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Where

UCR Palm Desert auditorium 
75080 Frank Sinatra Drive
Palm Desert, CA 92211  

 
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Contact

UCR Palm Desert 
UCR Palm Desert 
760-834-0800 
palmdesert@ucr.edu 
 

Wild Coachella: The Ghost Lake of the Desert 

The origin of the Salton Sea, California’s largest lake, is commonly attributed to the accidental failure of irrigation canals from the Colorado River. However, this lake is merely the latest incarnation of a series dating back several million years, ever since the Colorado River delta cut the Salton Trough from the Gulf of California.