Deep (or not so deep) history of the San Francisco Bay Doris Sloan Department of Earth & Planetary Science, UCB John Karachewski.

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Deep (or not so deep) history of the San Francisco Bay Doris Sloan Department of Earth & Planetary Science, UCB John Karachewski

After Cohen, 2000

After Conomos, 1979

John Karachewski

Geologic Processes that Form the Bay Crustal (Tectonic) Movements Sea Level Rise and Fall

Plummer & McGeary, 1991

View north from Mt. Tamalpais John Karachewski

Geologic Processes that Form the Bay Crustal Movements Sea Level Rise and Fall

Sea-level lowstand, 20,000 years ago K. Kalamars

John Karachewski

After LaJoie, 2001

Amy Lesen

Atwater et al., 1981

USGS

The San Francisco Chronicle

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