The Lake Tahoe Basin was foarmed by falling rocks. There were two faults and lake tahoe was the middle block of rock. Lake tahoe dropped and the faults went up. This hapened several millions of years ago. Lake tahoe is also formed by glacers. Emerald bay, cascade lake, fallen leaf lake, and echo lake are all v shaped valleys that were once formed by glacers
The upthrown faults created the highest peak in the reigon. Lake tahoe has so much water it could cover a flat place in California. The lake is so clear objects ca beseen up to depths of 120 ft. The water at lake tahoe is normaly extremly cold. Lake tahoe is about 22 miles long and 12 miles wide with 72 miles of shoreline.
Lake tahoe has a surface elevation of 6,229 feet an the dam at tahoe city can increace that by six feet. A lake formed sothern and lowest part of the Basen, formed by the water from the snow, rain, and rivers. Lake tahoe is the largest Alpine lake in North America. Lake tahoe is two-thirds of california and one-third of Nevada. Lake tahoe is the highest lake of its size in the united states.