Review Fred RosenbaumCosmopolitans: A Social and Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xviii + 439 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $39.95.)

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-260
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
San Francisco Bay ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
History Of

History of geological investigations of Mount Diablo, Contra Costa County, California

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory W. Bartow
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
University Of California ◽  
General Description ◽  
Mountain Building ◽  
Structural Interpretation ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

ABSTRACT Over the past 150 years, Mount Diablo has served as a window into the evolving understanding of California geology. In the 1800s, geologists mapped this easily accessible peak located less than 100 km (62 miles) from the rapidly growing city of San Francisco and the geology departments at the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University. Later, the mountain served as a focal point for investigating San Francisco Bay area tectonics. The structural interpretation of the up-thrusting mechanisms has evolved from a simple compressional system involving a few local faults to a more complex multifault and multiphase mountain-building theory. The stratigraphic interpretation and understanding have been advanced from a general description of the lithologies and fossils to a detailed description using sequence stratigraphy to define paleogeographic settings and depositional regimes.

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