{"product_id":"deep-oakland-how-geology-shaped-a-city-paperback","title":"Deep Oakland: How Geology Shaped a City - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Alden\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLaura Cunningham\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow in paperback: This \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and California Book Award finalist drills 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 and \u003ci\u003eSaving Time\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. In \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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Alden\u003c\/b\u003e is a geologist, geoscience writer, and author of \u003ci\u003eDeep Oakland\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller. Alden has worked for the US Geological Survey and reported for KQED and \u003ci\u003eBay Nature\u003c\/i\u003e. Long fascinated with rocks and landscapes, Alden found inspiration for \u003ci\u003eDeep Oakland\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 06, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52761515753779,"sku":"9781597146791","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/2aoweVmDPR9781597146791.webp?v=1764511134","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/deep-oakland-how-geology-shaped-a-city-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}