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San Francisco Bay is a shallow estuary surrounded by a large population center. The forces that built it began with plate tectonics and involved the collision of the Pacific and North American plates and the subduction of the Juan de Fuka plate. Changes in the climate resulting from the last ice age yielded lower and then higher sea levels. Human activity influenced the Bay. Gold mining during the California gold rush sent masses of slit into the Bay. Humans have also built several major cities and filled significant parts of the Bay. This book describes the natural history and evolution of the SF Bay Area over the last 50 million years through the present and into the future.
Key selling features:
- Summarizes a complex geological, geographical and ecological history
- Reviews how the San Francisco Bay has changed and will likely change in the future
- Examines the different roles and various drivers of Bay ecosystem function
- Includes the role of humans - both first peoples and modern populations - on the Bay
- Explores San Francisco Bay as an example of general bay ecolgical and environmental issues
商品描述(中文翻譯)
舊金山灣是一個淺水的河口，周圍環繞著大型人口中心。形成這個灣的力量始於板塊構造，涉及太平洋板塊和北美板塊的碰撞以及胡安·德·富卡板塊的隱沒。由於最後一次冰河時期的氣候變化，海平面經歷了先降低後升高的變化。人類活動也影響了這個灣。在加州淘金熱期間，金礦開採將大量泥沙沖入灣中。人類還建造了幾個主要城市，並填埋了灣的顯著部分。本書描述了舊金山灣區在過去五千萬年中的自然歷史和演變，直至現在及未來。
主要銷售特點：
- 總結了複雜的地質、地理和生態歷史
- 回顧了舊金山灣的變化及未來可能的變化
- 檢視了灣生態系統功能的不同角色和各種驅動因素
- 包括人類的角色——無論是原住民還是現代人口——對灣的影響
- 探索舊金山灣作為一般灣生態和環境問題的範例
作者簡介
Gary C. Howard is the Manager of Scientific Editing at the Gladstone Institutes of the University of California San Francisco. He Received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and at Harvard University. He has edited sveral books, including three books for CRC Press.
Matthew R. Kaser is a Senior Partner at Bell & Associates in San Francisco and has been a part-time lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences at California State University East Bay. He was on the faculty of the Department of Pediatrics, UCSF, an NIH Fellow at Habor-UCLA Medical Center and held postdoctoral researcher positions at the University of California Irvine, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and at Oxford University.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
**Gary C. Howard** 是加州大學舊金山分校Gladstone研究所的科學編輯經理。他在卡內基梅隆大學獲得博士學位，並曾在約翰霍普金斯大學醫學院和哈佛大學擔任博士後研究員。他編輯過幾本書籍，包括為CRC Press編輯的三本書。
**Matthew R. Kaser** 是舊金山Bell & Associates的高級合夥人，並且在加州州立大學東灣分校的生物科學系擔任兼任講師。他曾在加州大學舊金山分校的兒科系任教，並在哈伯-加州大學洛杉磯醫療中心擔任NIH研究員，還在加州大學爾灣分校、休士頓的M.D. Anderson癌症中心和牛津大學擔任博士後研究員。
