Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

 

Seeing Faults, Landslides and

other Landforms with Lasers

Graham Kent, University of Nevada Reno

This technology allows the user to strip away

trees (or study the canopy) to reveal an amazing

picture of unheralded clarity (sub-meter horizontal

and 3.5 centimeter vertical resolution). Active

faults, landslides and other landforms jump off the

screen, enabling discoveries such as the landward

 

 

extension of basin-forming faults (such as the West

Tahoe and Incline Village faults). Paleo-landslides

abound... Together with Sonar mapping in the

lakes of the Tahoe Basin, the first true baseline of

the basin is recorded.

You will be amazed!

 

 

 

Time: 5:30 No-host bar. Program begins at

6:00 p.m.

Cost: $5 donation requested

Location: Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences

291 Country Club Drive, Incline Village, NV