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Alpine lake in a fault-block basin, 1,645 feet deep.HE-DP-26-008-TAH

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Lake Tahoe

250 gsm archival matte stock, acid-free, FSC-certified.

$48
EditionOne terrain · three objects
TeeFrom $45WearableComplete EditionFrom $82Tee + Print
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Museum grade · 250 gsm matte · acid-free · FSC

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Printed on 250 gsm archival matte stock — acid-free, FSC-certified, museum grade. Pigment inks, fade-resistant for decades.

Printed image area 45×60 cm (18×24″). Sheet shipped unframed, flat and protected.

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↓ 1,645 FT DEEP

Second-deepest lake in the US, famous for its clarity.

Alpine lake in a fault-block basin, 1,645 feet deep.

— The Story

A basin that dropped,and filled with snowmelt.

I am 1,645 feet deep — the second-deepest lake in the United States. I sit at 6,225 feet in the Sierra Nevada, where California meets Nevada. I am not a glacial scoop or a volcanic crater. I am a graben: a block of crust that dropped between faults while the mountains on either side rose. About two million years ago, lava and mudflows sealed my northern outlet, and I have been filling with snowmelt ever since.

People have come to my shore for at least nine thousand years. The Washoe call me Da ow — the lake. In 1844, Frémont and Preuss climbed a snowbound ridge and became the first Euro-Americans on record to see me. I hold thirty-nine trillion gallons — enough to flood California fourteen inches deep — and I am far too deep to freeze.

The terrain in this edition is my real floor — mapped by U.S. Geological Survey sonar in 1998 with more than 65 million soundings, the shallows added by airborne lidar in 2000. None of it is invented. I am the largest alpine lake in North America.

In 1968 you could see 102 feet down. The floor is still sixteen times deeper.
— The lake, in numbers

A basin that dropped,and filled with snowmelt.

↓ 1,645 FT · 39 TRILLION GALLONS
ALPINE FRESHWATER · SIERRA NEVADA GRABEN
Max depth1,645 ft501 m · 2nd-deepest in the USA
Surface elevation6,225 ft1,897 m above sea level
Surface area191 mi²495 km²
Volume~39 trillion gal~150 km³
Water clarity (2025)69.2 ftannual-avg Secchi · UC Davis TERC
First recorded1844Frémont & Preuss
— The object

How it's made.

Archival terrain on 250 gsm matte stock. Museum-quality archival print. Made to outlast the wall it hangs on.

Paper

250 gsm archival matte stock. Acid-free. FSC-certified.

Print method

Museum-quality archival print with pigment inks. Designed for long-term display under normal indoor light.

Production

Made to order in the United States. Printed and shipped within a few business days.

Framing

Designed to fit a standard 18×24 in frame. Shipped flat in a rigid mailer.

— Provenance

Every line,traceable.

◉ Terrain

Archive ID HE-DP-26-008-TAH
Trophy ↓ 1,645 FT DEEP — Second-deepest lake in the US, famous for its clarity.
Terrain Lake Tahoe · 39.0969 · -120.0325 · North America
Source USGS 3DEP + USGS bathymetry · 10 m DEM
Dataset / version USGS 3DEP + USGS Bathymetry · 10 m DEM
Resolution 10 m DEM
Contour interval Source: USGS 3DEP + USGS Bathymetry · 10 m DEM · Rendered: 100 ft
Projection EPSG:4326 · WGS84 datum

◉ Method

Extraction QGIS 3.34 · contour extraction from source grid
Editing Human vector cleanup in Illustrator · no smoothing algorithms applied
License USGS public domain · U.S. Geological Survey, PCMSC
AI use None in the terrain. No generative models, no style-transfer, no AI autocomplete, no automated contour simplification — at any stage of extraction or editing.
Verification Cross-referenced with USGS Open-File Report 98-509
Issue 04 · Spring 2026
Provenance Verify this Archive ID →
— The gift

Made to be received.

Built to be opened slowly. A considered piece for someone who knows the place — or wants to remember it.

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A considered terrain piece for someone who knows the place — or wants to remember it.

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