Oakland Geology

Tanglewood Path crosses the Hayward fault just on the Oakland city line (at the chainlink fence); you can see the rightward offset of the path just above a set of steps. (Remember that wherever you look across the Hayward fault, the other side is moving to the right.) I’m standing at the first bend in Stonewall Road, looking west into Berkeley. This area is already unstable being on a steep slope, and the disruption of the path is as much due to landsliding and soil creep as it is to the fault. But the slope of the hillside naturally tends to push everything to the left, whereas the bend in the path goes the opposite way.

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