# Mount Diablo **Domain:** Place / Geology / Paleontology **Doc Type:** Canonical Place Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Mount Diablo** is a prominent uplift in the eastern San Francisco Bay region whose exposed sedimentary formations preserve a long record of changing marine and terrestrial environments. ## Nexus Context The nearby [[wiki/Blackhawk Ranch Quarry|Blackhawk Ranch Quarry]] preserves a Miocene vertebrate assemblage. In [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]], Mount Diablo broadens the Valley's history beyond recent industry: the metropolitan region sits inside a readable archive of environmental and biological succession. Its role in the corpus is evidentiary rather than mystical. Geography does not cause computational intelligence. It supplies the material record and institutions through which a culture learns to infer history from fragments. ## Sources / Provenance - University of California Museum of Paleontology collections and Blackhawk Ranch records: https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/ - California State Parks, Mount Diablo: https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=517 ## See Also [[wiki/Blackhawk Ranch Quarry|Blackhawk Ranch Quarry]], [[wiki/Fossil Record|Fossil Record]], [[wiki/Pleistocene|Pleistocene]], [[wiki/Technical Archaeology|Technical Archaeology]]