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From KQED.

From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal, and I am fairly bursting with excitement for today's show.

We're going to be talking with Andrew Alden, the author of a new book, Deep Oakland, How Geology Shaped a City.

But this book is more than a local history. It reminds me of what the novelist J.M. Ledgard called planetary writing,

a brave attempt to show how the Earth machine, in the deepest of time, has created this specific place.

And the rocks, their formations, their interactions with the ocean and the streams,

they silently structured much of the human culture

that was built atop of them,

from Malone management to this very second.

As you listen to this broadcast from a tower,

placed atop a peak, created by the whole planet's motion,

we'll talk local geology after this news.

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