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San Francisco Bay
As A Form Of Water Feature
San Francisco Bay is a shallow estuary in the US state of California. It is surrounded by a contiguous region known as the San Francisco Bay Area (often simply "the Bay Area"), and is dominated by the large cities of San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland. [from wikipedia] 2007 San Francisco Bay • 2006 San Francisco Bay • 2005 San Francisco Bay |
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2007 San Francisco Bay, As A Form Of Water Feature San Francisco Bay is a mecca for sailors (boats, as well as windsurfing and kitesurfing), due to consistent strong westerly/northwesterly thermally-generated winds--Beaufort force 6 (15-25 knots, 17-29 mph, 8-13 m/s) is common on summer afternoons--and protection from large open ocean swells.[from wikipedia]
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2006 San Francisco Bay, As A Form Of Water Feature Despite its urban and industrial character, San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta remain perhaps California's most important ecological habitats.[from wikipedia]
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2005 San Francisco Bay, As A Form Of Water Feature The bay was navigable as far south as San Jose until the 1850s, when hydraulic mining released massive amounts of sediment from the rivers that settled in those parts of the bay that had little or no current.[from wikipedia]
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