Bathymetry Perspective Views

Saturday August 08, 1998

Looking north toward Crystal Bay and Incline Village. Color image is land, gray scale is lake floor. Vertical exaggeration is x2. Two large landslide (?) or sediment chutes lead from near shore out towards the deep lake basin. The western chute, just east of Crystal Bay Village is 500-m wide and has 10-m high bedforms on the floor. The eastern chute, directly south of Incline Village, has 80-m of relief, is 1.2 km wide at the shallow end and 400-m wide toward the basin. This chute also has bedforms that rise 8-m above the floor. The ridge that separates the two chutes rises 250-m above the lake floor on the west and only 75-m on the east. Water depths of the basin on the west are 450-m, rising to depths of 200-m over the ridge, and 275-m over the chute on the east.

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