The History of Oakland, Told Through Its Geology
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The History of Lake Merit
There's more around Lake Merit, for instance, not only have this evidence of how it was at the height of the cold peak of the ice age, but we also have traces of the warm peak of the last ice age. In that time, just like today, the streams were a sleuthing sediment down from the hills and laying it out in a nice even layer right up to sea level. When the sea receded, that gravel to Harris was left behind as a terrace of gravel and sand. That's where Lake Side Park sits today. You go there and it's flat, you know. And if you go in parts of East Oakland down to the, towards the
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