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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Chapter 14 Soils, Geology, and Seismicity

All references are available at the following links and/or County’s Tahoe office, 565 West Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, 530-581-6284. There may be some references cited that, because of the date of publication, specialized subject area, etc., are not readily available. Staff can contact the specific technical professional to retrieve such a reference, if requested.

References

Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act. 1972. (California PRC Division 2. Geology, Mine and Mining Chapter 7.5 Earthquake Fault Zoning)

Bailey, R.G. 1974. Land Capability Classification of the Lake Tahoe Basin, California - Nevada. U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, 32 pages.

Brothers, D.S. et al. 2009. New Constraints on Deformation, Slip Rate, and Timing of the Most Recent Earthquake on the West Tahoe – Dollar Point Fault, Lake Tahoe Basin, California. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, April 2009

Burnett, J.L. 1973. Earthquake History of the United States. U.S. Department of Commerce. Coffman, J.L., and von Hake, Carl, 1973, Earthquake history of the United States: Publication 41-1, Revised Edition (through 1970); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Data Services. Updated in 1982: Coffman, J L., von Hake, Carl A., and Stover, Carl W., 1982, Earthquake history of the United States: Publication 41-1, Rev. Ed. (with supplement through 1980), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and U.S. Geological Survey, Boulder, Colo., 258p.

California Division of Mines and Geology. 1997. Guidelines for Evaluating and Mitigating Seismic Hazards in California. Special Publication 117. Sacramento, CA.

California Geological Survey. 2007. Seismic Shaking Hazards in California. (part 1, part 2) Updated: June 12, 2008. Available: < http://redirect.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/rghm/pshamap/pshamain.html >. Accessed: November 9, 2009.

Cao, T., W. A. Bryant, B. Rowshandel, D. Branum, and C. J. Wills. 2003. The revised 2002 California probabilistic seismic hazard maps. Available: <http://www.consrv.ca.gov/CGS/rghm/psha/fault_parameters/pdf/2002_CA_Hazard_Maps.pdf>.

Cooper, Clark and Associates. 1974. Natural Hazards of the Lake Tahoe Basin. Prepared for Tahoe Regional Planning Agency

Davis2 Consulting Earth Scientists, Inc. 2006. Soil Investigation and Land Capability Analysis Homewood Mountain Resort Placer County, California. September.

dePolo, C.M. et al. 1997. Earthquake Occurrence in the Reno-Carson City Urban Corridor, Seismological Research Letters, Volume 68, Number 3, May/June 1997.

dePolo, C. M. 1996. Local Quaternary Faults and Associated Potential Earthquakes in the Reno and Carson City, Urban Areas, Nevada.” Final Technical Report National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP), Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Contract #1434-95-G-2612, Program Element II.4. Staff can contact the specific technical professional to retrieve this reference, if requested.

Geological Survey and California Geological Survey. 2006. Quaternary fault and fold database for the United States, accessed 11/6/2009 from USGS web site: http//earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/qfaults/.

Holdrege and Kull. 2009. Preliminary Geotechnical Engineering Report for Homewood Mountain Resort North Base Area. Project No. 41278-01.

Holdrege and Kull. 2010a. Geotechnical Engineering Report for Homewood Mountain Resort North Base Lodge. (part 1, part 2) Project No. 41278-03.

Holdrege and Kull. 2010b. Geotechnical Engineering Report for Homewood Mountain Resort Mid-Mountain Lodge. Project No. 41278-02.

Hart, E.W. and W.A. Bryant. 1997. Fault-Rupture Hazard Zones in California: Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act with index to Earthquake Fault Zone Maps. Special Publication 42. California Division of Mines and Geology. Sacramento, CA.

Hyne, N. J. et al. 1972. Quaternary History of Lake Tahoe, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 83, p. 1435-1448.

Ichinose, G.A. et al. 1999. The potential hazard from tsunami and seiche waves generated by future large earthquakes within the Lake Tahoe basin, California-Nevada”, Nevada Seismological Laboratory, University of Nevada Reno, March 8, 1999.

Integrated Environmental Restoration Services. 2010. Homewood Mountain Resort Cumulative Watershed Effects Analysis.

International Code Council. Inc. (ICC). 2006. 2006 International Building Code (IBC) Country Club Hills, Illinois. (Referenced in Placer County General Plan) Available at Tahoe office 2009 International Building Code (IBC)

Jennings, C.W. (1994), Fault Activity Map of California and Adjacent Areas with Locations and Ages of Recent Volcanic Eruptions, California Division of Mines and Geology.

Kachadoorian. 1967. Staff can contact the specific technical professional to retrieve this reference, if requested.

Kent, G.M., et a. 2005. 60k.y. record of extension across the western boundary of the Basin and Range province: Estimate of slip rates from offset shoreline terraces and a catastrophic slide beneath Lake Tahoe, Geology May 2005, v. 33, no. 5, p.365-368

Kleinfelder. 2010a. Second Revised Soils Hydrologic Scoping and Final Report. October 7, 2010.

Kleinfelder.2010b. Submittal of Revised Soils Hydrologic Exhibits. (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4) December 1, 2010. Revised Replacement exhibits dated December 15, 2010.

Kleinfelder, Inc. 2007. Groundwater Evaluation Report, Homewood Mountain Resort, Homewood, California, October 31, 2007, Project No. 74407.01 Staff can contact the specific technical professional to retrieve this reference, if requested.

Lindgren, W. 1897. Geological Atlas of the United States, Truckee Folio. (part 1, part 2) U.S. Geological Survey Folio No. 39.

Lumos and Associates. 2008. Geotechnical Investigation Report for Boulder Bay. (part 1, part 2) Crystal Bay, Nevada. September.

Matthews, R. A. 1968. Geologic Map of the North Half of the Lake Tahoe Basin, California Division of Mines and Geology, Open File Report.

Placer County. 1994. Placer County General Plan. Available at Tahoe office

Rogers, J.H. 1974. Soil Survey of the Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada. USDA Soil Conservation Service and Forest Service in cooperation with the University of California Agricultural Experiment Station and the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station. Washington, DC.U.S. Staff can contact the specific technical professional to retrieve this reference, if requested.

Schmeickert, R.A. 1992. Preliminary Map of Pleistocene to Holocene Faults in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California and Nevada. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno and Nevada Seismology Laboratory, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, 1992. Staff can contact the specific technical professional to retrieve this reference, if requested.

Saucedo, G.J. 2005. Geologic Map of the Lake Tahoe Basin, California and Nevada. California Department of Conservation, California Geological Survey.

State of California's Earthquake Epicenters, Faults, and Intensity Zone Map December 2008

TRPA. 2011. Soils Hydrologic Approval Homewood Mountain Resort – EIS/EIR Master Plan Alternative 1, Placer County, APNs 097-060-024, 097-050-072 and 075, TRPA File Numbers: LCA2010-0029, 0063 and 0064. January 5, 2011

Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. 2000. Tahoe Keys Marina Master Plan EIS/EIR. January. Staff can contact the specific technical professional to retrieve this reference, if requested.

Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. 1986. Regional Plan for the Lake Tahoe Basin, Goals and Policies. Available at Tahoe office

United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. 2007. Soil survey of the Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada. Accessible online at: http://soils.usda.gov/survey/printed_surveys/. Accessed on November 5, 2009.

United States Geological Society. 2009. USGS National Earthquake Information Center. http://neic.usgs.gov. Accessed on 11/10/2009

U.S. Geological Survey and California Geological Survey. 2004.

Cooper, R.A., and O'Rourke, J.T., 1974, Natural hazards of the Lake Tahoe Basin California-Nevada: prepared for the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency through a grant with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development under provisions of Section 701 of the Housing Act of 1954; 23 p. with appendices A-E. Staff can contact the specific technical professional to retrieve this reference, if requested.

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