Photo from U.S. Geological Fact Sheet 029-99

Figure 3. An exaggerated perspective view of a large failure of the Lake Tahoe lake margin. The view is from the east, looking west toward McKinney Bay near Tahoe City, Calif. The land is gray, the lake floor is colored (blue the deepest), and areas that have not been surveyed. are black. A debris tongue, shown in green and at the center of the view, is 4.5 miles wide and 5.6 miles long.

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