Wait. There's A Volcano in the East Bay Hills?

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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If you head to Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve above Oakland, you might wonder the same thing as Bay Curious listener Bourke MacDonald: How did a volcano form here and why did it go extinct?Today on the show, we’re going hiking to learn more about this Bay Area geological wonder. Additional Reading: What! There Was A Volcano in the East Bay Hills? Video: Geology Tour with Steve Edwards at Sibley Reported by Katrina Schwartz. Bay Curious is made by Katrina Schwartz, Suzie Racho and Brendan Willard. Additional support from Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Paul Lancour, Carly Severn, Ethan Lindsey, Vinnee Tong and Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez.

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0:00.0	From K-QED.
0:02.0	Hi, I'm Trina.
0:04.0	Hi, I'm Trina.
0:07.0	First.
0:08.0	Nice to see you.
0:09.0	On a windy Friday, I meet up with Michael Chernovsky,
0:12.0	a naturalist with the East Bay Regional Park District,
0:14.9	and Burke McDonald, our question asker this week.
0:18.1	Michael thinks it's possible it will rain.
0:20.3	We're at Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve, a park in the East Bay Hills above Oakland with some very cool history.
0:27.0	Yeah, this really caught my attention because you don't see this on a normal hike.
0:31.0	Burke first came to Sibley with his fiance.
0:34.0	They've been doing a lot of hiking during the pandemic.
0:36.0	You know, you go to Sibley Volcanic and I said, what volcanic?
0:40.4	What do you mean?
0:41.4	There's, I gotta check this out. There's a volcano? I never knew about this spot.
0:47.0	He wants to know how the volcano came to be here and why it went extinct.
0:52.0	His question won a Bay Curious voting round.
0:54.5	And when people say where is the volcano, sometimes I would say, well it's all over the
0:59.2	place and it's almost nowhere.
1:00.8	Mysterious. Today on the show, we're going hiking to learn about a Bay Area
1:06.0	volcano that once stood here millions of years ago. We'll dig into the geology,
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