The Geography That Created America's Most Expensive City

Thank you to Tempo for sponsoring this video! Head to https://homechef.yt.link/FEFWJPM to get 60% off on your first Tempo box with code GEOFF60 -- Shop limited-time maps from my new store, "Maps By Geoff": https://www.mapsbygeoff.com/ -- What if Mount Shasta Erupts?:    • What if Mount Shasta Erupts?   -- 📖 Subscribe to my Substack! 👉 https://geographicgeoff.substack.com -- What if I told you that you could stand on a certain mountain summit and see more of the Earth’s surface than almost anywhere else on the planet? Or that deep beneath the skyscrapers of one of the world's most modern financial hubs lies a graveyard of hundreds of abandoned 19th-century ships? From a "drowned" river valley that was once a lush coastal plain to the most dramatic microclimates in the Western Hemisphere, this region is far more than just tech hubs and orange bridges. -- Chapters: 0:00 - Far More Than Tech Hubs and Orange Bridges 0:31 - The Drowned River Valley 1:15 - Mount Diablo’s Incredible Viewshed 1:57 - The San Andreas "Conveyor Belt” 2:40 - The Microclimate Capital 3:22 - The Upwelling of "Karl the Fog” 4:06 - Sponsored by Tempo 5:30 - Buried Ships in the Financial District 6:13 - Treasure Island: Man-Made Geometry 6:56 - The Toxic Legacy of New Almaden 7:41 - Alcatraz: The "Dry" Rock 8:18 - Neon Salt Ponds 9:03 - Density and the "Water Wall” 9:45 - From Orchards to Silicon 10:25 - The Blue Highway 11:02 - The Greenbelt 11:44 - The Eight Geographic Stitches -- 🌳 Find me: https://linktr.ee/geoffgibson 🗺️ Map store: https://mapsbygeoff.com -- Stock footage and music acquired from www.envato.com, www.storyblocks.com and videvo.net. If you think there's been an error in using a video clip, please contact me. This has been a production of Sound Bight Media (soundbight.com)