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| Overview And Some Basic Geology To Set The Stage Introduction | |
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| The Setting And The Processes That Shape It | |
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| Time | |
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| Human and Geologic Geological Processes | |
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| Shaping the Landscape At the Surface | |
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| Weathering and Erosion Where Sea Meets Land The Sand On (and Off) the Beach | |
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| The Plate Tectonic Framework | |
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| The Dance of the Plates California's Dynamic Past | |
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| The Bay Area's Network of Faults Squeezing the Bay Area | |
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| The Bay Area's Complex Structure | |
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| The Remarkable Rocks Of The Bay Area | |
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| The Foundation under our Feet | |
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| The 'Basement' Rocks | |
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| The World-Famous Franciscan Complex Assembling the Franciscan Great Valley Complex Salinian Complex | |
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| Visitor from Down South The Younger Rocks | |
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| Emerging from the Sea Tertiary Volcanoic Rocks At the Top of the Heap | |
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| Bay Area Geology | |
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| Marin County - A Divided Landscape | |
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| The San Andreas Fault West of the San Andreas Fault | |
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| Sierran Rocks in the Bay Area? | |
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| East of the San Andreas Fault | |
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| The Franciscan Complex | |
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| The Great Valley Complex | |
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| The Younger Rocks Some Special Places to Visit | |
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| The Marin Headlands Ring Mountain: the Bay Area's Unusual Metamorphic Rocks Mt. Tamalpais | |
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| Cross-Section through Subduction | |
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| San Francisco - Geology Beneath The Pavement | |
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| The Streams and Lakes that Once Were | |
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| The City on the Dunes Ice-Age Sand Modern | |
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| Sand along the Shore Under the City | |
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| The Rocky Foundation Alcatraz Terrane | |
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| Marin Headlands Terrane | |
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| San Bruno Mountain Terrane | |
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| Melange Zones On Top of the Basement Rocks | |
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| The Bay And The Islands | |
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| The Estuary and its Surprises Water that Flows 'Upstream' | |
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| Secrets of the Sediments | |
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| Early History of the Bay Marshes and Plains | |
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| Around the Bay Islands in the Bay: the Drowned Landscape | |
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| The Peninsula: Coast, Redwoods, And Bay | |
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| The Coastal Landscape | |
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| The Land Uplifted Down to the Sea Faults | |
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| That Carve Up the Peninsula | |
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| The Basement Rocks A Record of Past Seas | |
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| The Youngest Rocks of the Peninsula | |
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| The South Bay | |
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| The Valley That Was: The Santa Clara Valley South Bay Faults and Structure | |
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| The South Bay's Diverse Rocks | |
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| The Basement Rocks | |
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| The South Bay Tertiary Rocks | |
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| From Sea to Land Volcanic Rocks | |
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| Special Places to Explore Alum Rock Park | |
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| The Bay Area's Hot Spring Resort Almaden Quicksilver County Park | |
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| The East Bay | |
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| A Young Landscape The Delta, a Subsided Marsh Creeks that Go the Long Way Round | |
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| The East Bay Fault System | |
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| The Hayward Fault Rocks Old and Young | |
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| The Mesozoic Subduction Record From Sea to Land | |
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| The Livermore Valley Special Places to Explore Mount Diablo State | |
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| Park Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve | |
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| The East Bay Hills | |
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| The North Bay | |
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| The Sonoma Coast: Lifted Up and Slumping Down Faults and Fault Slices | |
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| The Hole in the Head Assembling the North Bay | |
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| The Basement Rocks | |
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| The Salinian Block Across the Fault Sidebar | |
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| Goat Rock State Beach After Subduction Ended | |
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| The North Bay's Volcanic Eruptions Rivers and Bay | |
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| Credits | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |