Deep Oakland
Heyday Books (Verlag)
978-1-59714-679-1 (ISBN)
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"This book has turned me into a newcomer to my own city, but has also changed the way I will view any landscape. I can think of few greater gifts than that."—Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time
"Spending time with Andrew Alden is like giving yourself x-ray eyes." —Roman Mars, host and creator of 99% Invisible
Beneath Oakland's streets and underfoot of every scurrying creature atop them, rocks roil, shift, crash, and collide in an ever-churning seismological saga. 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. Poised atop a world-famous fault line now slumbering, Alden charts how these quaking rocks gave rise to the hills and the flats; how ice-age sand dunes gave root to the city's eponymous oak forests; how the Jurassic volcanoes of Leona Heights gave way to mining boom times; how Lake Merritt has swelled and disappeared a dozen times over the course of its million-year lifespan; and how each epochal shift has created the terrain cradling Oaklanders today. With Alden as our guide—and with illustrations by Laura Cunningham, author of A State of Change—we see that just as Oakland is a human crossroads, a convergence of cultures from the world over, so too is the bedrock below, carried here from parts still incompletely known.
Andrew Alden is a geologist, geoscience writer, and author of Deep Oakland, a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Alden has worked for the US Geological Survey and reported for KQED and Bay Nature. Long fascinated with rocks and landscapes, Alden found inspiration for Deep Oakland in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which, as he writes, "ripped the city open and revealed to us its heart and character." Through his writing Alden raises awareness for what he calls the deep present: the appreciation of the ancient underpinnings that shape the modern-day surroundings of daily life. His website is oaklandgeology.com.
Preface
1 The Hayward Fault
2 Lake Merritt
3 Downtown
4 Mountain View Cemetery
5 The Piedmont Block
6 The Fan, or the Second Level
7 Indian Gulch
8 The Bay Shore and Flats
9 Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve
10 Leona Heights and the Southern Oakland Hills
11 The Ridgeline
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.6.2025 |
|---|---|
| Illustrationen | Laura Cunningham |
| Zusatzinfo | black and white topographical maps |
| Verlagsort | Berkeley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 133 x 203 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-59714-679-X / 159714679X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-59714-679-1 / 9781597146791 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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