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Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City

Name: Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City
Brand: Heyday Books
SKU: 9781597146791
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Contributors:

Andrew Alden, Laura Cunningham (Illustrator)

Publisher:

Heyday Books

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Science

Book Subcategory:

Earth Sciences

Book Topic:

Geology, Sedimentology & Stratigraphy, Seismology & Volcanism

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Release Date:

5/6/2025

ISBN 13:

9781597146791

Weight:

0.55 lbs

Size:

7.90 x 5.20 x 0.60 inches

Pages:

256

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Now in paperback: This San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and California Book Award finalist drills down into Oakland's geological history and its impacts on the city's urban present.

"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.

About the Author

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.

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