比较大的构造是索尔顿海槽，它是从加利福尼亚湾延伸出的一片洼地，穿过现代的科罗拉多河三角洲，向西北进入加利福尼亚，直达索尔顿海。
The larger structure is the Salton Trough, a depression that stretches from the Gulf of California, through the modern Colorado River Delta, and northwestward into California as far as the Salton Sea.
拉斯维加斯也有过同样的烦恼，在科罗拉多河建起胡佛大坝从而形成mead湖之前，拉斯维加斯一直是一片荒漠。
Las Vegas had similar problems. It was part of a great desert until Lake Mead was created by the Hoover Dam built on the Colorado River.
一片与科罗拉多州等长的地区被淹没。人力损失及其惨重。
An area the length of Colorado was flooded. The human cost was enormous.
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