kes it the third largest in North America and the tenth deepest in the World, rivaled by such lakes as Oregon's Crater Lake and Russia's Lake Baikal(3:42,4:1,5:2,6:87).
             "Lake Tahoe is as long as the English Channel is wide. The Panama Canal, 700 ft wide and 50 ft Deep, could be filled with Lake Tahoe's water even if it circled the globe, at the equator, and there would still be enough water left to fill a canal of the same size running from San Francisco to New York." (3:1)
             The altitude of the area and freezing mountains would cause one to think the lake would freeze over, however, the tremendous depth prevents the lake from freezing. The theory of convection is proven here; the v
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