Flyby Movie of the Lake Tahoe Region
This is a Quicktime movie flying through the colored shaded relief image of the Lake Tahoe region. Many web browsers are capable of viewing Quicktime movies. If this movie does not run on your system and you are on a Macintosh or running Windows 95/98/NT try downloading the Quicktime movie-playing program from http://www.apple.com/quicktime/. At this time, (1999) to our knowledge UNIX platforms cannot run Quicktime directly. But there is a program called XANIM available at http://xanim.va.pubnix.com/home.html#index that can be compiled on UNIX platforms to view Quicktime movies. WARNING: This is a large file (20 mb) so it may take a few minutes to download. If the movie is running, you can either watch the whole movie by clicking on the arrow in the bottom left corner of the movie window, or scroll through scene by scene with the forward and back arrows in the bottom right corner of the window. The blue and green tones show the morphology below the water, while the red and brown tones show the mountains of the Sierra Nevada and Carson Range surrounding the lake. The black areas around the edge of the lake are the regions not mapped by the multibeam system. The movie descends into the southern portion of the lake. It travels over the center of the lake, towards a large failure on the western margin of the lake. There are a couple of debris flows flowing off the margin to the north and south of the large failure. The movie then turns to the north and looks down a fault scarp at the north end of the lake. Continuing its turn to the east, the movie overlooks the large failure showing large blocks littering the center basin of the lake. These blocks presumably came from the catastrophic failure of the western margin. Finally the movie turns south, flies over these large blocks and ends looking at large gullys cut into the southern margin of the lake. |
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