San Francisco has been a natural gathering place for people across the millennia. It is not a coincidence that this city, situated at the entrance to the largest estuary on the U.S. West Coast, owes its dramatic setting to active geology on the North American plate margin. The first people of the San Francisco Peninsula, the Ramaytush Ohlone, cared for the land here for thousands of years before E ...[Read More]
San Francisco: Where the Plates Meet
View on the Golden Gate Bridge from the Presidio of San Francisco, showing the serpentine bluffs on the foreground, Fort Point under the arch of the Golden Gate Bridge and the Marin Headlands on the far side. Credit: William Elder.