San Francisco: Where the Plates Meet (U.S. National Park Service)

January 2021 – The San Francisco Bay Area sports “coasts with abundant marine and terrestrial resources, a sheltered deep-water harbor, hills and mountains with plentiful forests, and streams and rivers providing water and transportation routes, including to the goldfields of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.” As a result, it has attracted …

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/san-francisco-where-the-plates-meet.htm