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Map showing thickness of young bay mud, southern San Francisco Bay, California Map showing thickness of young bay mud, southern San Francisco Bay, California
Soft water-saturated estuarine deposits less than 10,000 years old underlie the southern part of San Francisco bay and the present and former marshlands that border the bay. Known locally as bay mud or as young bay mud, these deposits, and the estuarine environment that produces them, are of major importance in making decision on land use and development in the San Francisco Bay area...