Elsinore Valley
Elsinore Valley is a graben rift valley in western Riverside County, California, a part of the Elsinore Trough. The Elsinore Valley is a graben between the to the southwest and the Perris Block on the northeast. It is a complex graben, divided lengthwise into several smaller sections by transverse faults.
The Elsinore Valley graben is bounded northeast side by the on the north shore of Lake Elsinore at the foot of the Clevelin Hills and similarly on the southeast by the that runs along the at the foot of the Santa Ana Mountains and parallel to the Elsinore Fault along the southwest shore of Lake Elsinore to Rome Hill and the Willard Fault continues on as the west side of the Temecula Valley graben and Wolf Valley graben. At the south end of Lake Elsinore the enters the lake just east of Rome Hill, running southeast on the northwest side of the Temecula Valley.
The Elsinore Valley is marked in the south by the rise between the Elsinore and Temecula Valley. In the north the valley bounds are marked by the Santa Ana Mountain ridges moved eastward along the and transverse faults, dividing the Elsinore Valley from the Temescal Valley graben.[1][2]
References[]
- ^ Rene Engel, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE LAKE ELSINORE QUADRANGLE CALIFORNIA, CAIIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, BULLETIN 146, DIVISION OF MINES, SAN FRANCISCO, 195E9, pp. 50-51
- ^ Rene Engal, Geologic Map of Lake Elsinore Quadrangle, State of California, Department of Natural Resources, 1959
Coordinates: 33°37′30″N 117°18′30″W / 33.62500°N 117.30833°W
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