{"product_id":"deep-oakland-how-geology-shaped-a-city","title":"Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"--\u003cb\u003eJenny Odell\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Do Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Spending time with Andrew Alden is like giving yourself x-ray eyes.\" --\u003cb\u003eRoman Mars\u003c\/b\u003e, host and creator of \u003ci\u003e99% Invisible\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeneath Oakland's streets and underfoot of every scurrying creature atop them, rocks roil, shift, crash, and collide in an ever-churning seismological saga. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDeep Oakland\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eA State of Change\u003c\/i\u003e--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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r","brand":"Andrew Alden, Laura Cunningham","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44440482119916,"sku":"9781597145961","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781597145961.jpg?v=1708831779","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/deep-oakland-how-geology-shaped-a-city","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}