1. The San Francisco Bay has served as an important base for America's military forces.
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4. San Francisco Bay is filled by fresh water that flows west in the Sacramento River from near Mount Shasta and in the San Joaquin River, which starts three hundred miles away in the Sierra Nevada.
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5. The San Francisco Bay is approximately 550 square miles, which is larger than all but nine cities in the United States.
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8. San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining about forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains and Central Valley, enters the Pacific Ocean.
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13. San Francisco Bay continues to support some of the densest industrial production and urban settlement in the United States.
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15. At the time, Drakes San Francisco Bay went by the name Bahia de San Francisco and thus both bodies of water became associated with the name.
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16. San Francisco Bay is thought to represent a down-warping of the Earth's crust between the San Andreas Fault to the west and the Hayward Fault to the east, though the precise nature of this remains under study.
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