Bathymetry Perspective Views

Tuesday August 11, 1998

Perspective view looking west toward Mc Kinney Bay just south of Tahoe City. Gray scale is land, colored is lake floor, black is not surveyed. Vertical exaggeration is x2. The view shows a large failure of the lake margin. The debris tongue is 7.5 km wide and 9 km long. The thin distal area is about 15m thick, the large blocks within the debris tongue are up to 20m high. The top of the failure is at about 1635m and the toe of the debris tongue is at 1434m from sea level.

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