The Elsinore Trough is a graben rift valley in Riverside County, southern California. It is created by the Elsinore Fault Zone.
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It is located between the Santa Ana Mountains to the west, and the Temescal Mountains of the Perris Block and the Temecula Basin to the east.
This graben valley is broken into a series of sections by transverse faults. These smaller graben valleys are the Temescal Valley, Elsinore Valley, Temecula Valley and Wolf Valley.[1][2]
The cities of Corona, Lake Elsinore, Murrieta, Temecula, and Wildomar; the census-designated place of Temescal Valley; and the Reservation of the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians are located in the Elsinore Trough.
References
edit- ^ Rene Engel, Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Lake Elsinore Quadrangle California, California Department of Natural Resources, Bulletin 146, Division of Mines, San Francisco, 1959, pp. 14, 55-51.
- ^ Robert A. Larson; James E. Slosson (1997). Storm-induced Geologic Hazards: Case Histories from the 1992-1993 Winter in Southern California and Arizona. Fig. 1. Vol. 11. Geological Society of America. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-8137-4111-6.
33°41′N 117°22′W / 33.683°N 117.367°W