Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City Alden Andrew
Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City Alden Andrew Read the rocks as only a geologist can, with this deep drill-down into Oakland's geological history and its impacts on the city's urban…
Specifikacia Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City Alden Andrew
Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City Alden Andrew
Read the rocks as only a geologist can, with this deep drill-down into Oakland's geological history and its impacts on the city's urban present.Beneath Oakland's streets and underfoot of every scurrying creature atop them, rocks roil, shift, crash, and collide in an ever-churning seismological saga. Poised atop a world-famous fault line now slumbering, Alden charts how these quaking rocks gave rise to the hills Playing out since time immemorial, the deep geology of this city has chiseled and carved its landforms and the lives of everyone--from the Ohlone to the settlers to the transients and transplants--who has called this singular place home.In Deep Oakland, geologist Andrew Alden excavates the ancient story of Oakland's geologic underbelly and reveals how its silt, soil, and subterranean sinews are intimately entwined with its human history--and future.