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Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City

Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City - Paperback

by Andrew Alden
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Availability:In StockContributor:Andrew Alden, Laura Cunningham (Illustrator)Publish date:5/6/2025Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Heyday BooksISBN-13:9781597146791ISBN-10:159714679XUPC:9781597146791Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Earth SciencesBook Topic:Geology, Sedimentology & Stratigraphy, Seismology & VolcanismSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCX1CRBHVM

Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City

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...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Heyday BooksISBN-13:9781597146791ISBN-10:159714679XUPC:9781597146791Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Earth SciencesBook Topic:Geology, Sedimentology & Stratigraphy, Seismology & VolcanismSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCX1CRBHVM

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...

Publisher: Heyday Books

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Andrew Alden, Laura Cunningham (Illustrator)

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Andrew Alden

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