saltonsea: Salton Sea polygon

In abarbour/yhs.catalog: Yang, Hauksson, and Shearer (2012) Refined Focal Mechanism Catalog for Southern California

Salton Sea polygon

Description

Coordinates of a recent Salton Sea shoreline

Format

'data.frame': latitudes and longitudes outlining the shoreline

Details

The first and last coordinates are equal, which means this can be treated as a polygon.

Source

Digitized from Google-maps in Feb-2015 with http://www.birdtheme.org/useful/v3largemap.html

References

For more information on the Salton Sea:

http://saltonsea.ca.gov/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_Trough

See Also

yhs.catalog

Examples

plot(saltonsea, type='l', asp=1.19)
points(Lat.deg ~ Lon.deg, yhs, pch=".")

# first and last points are equal -- this is a polygon
try(identical(c(saltonsea[1,]), c(saltonsea[nrow(saltonsea),])))

abarbour/yhs.catalog documentation built on April 6, 2022, 5:56 p.m.