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The San Francisco peninsula separates the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. On its northern tip is the city of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge leading over to the northern shores. Most of the peninsula is covered by San Mateo county.A number of major thoroughfares run North-South: El Camino Real and Highway 101 on the east side along the bay, Interstate 280 down the center, and Highway 1 on the west along the Pacific. The east side of the peninsula is largely urban, forming a commuter area for San Francisco, San Jose to the south, Silicon Valley, Palo Alto and Stanford University.
Three bridges, the Dumbarton BridgeThe Dumbarton Bridge is the southernmost of the highway bridges that span the San Francisco Bay in California. It is also the shortest. Its eastern terminus is in Newark in the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge and its western terminus is in Menl, the San Mateo bridge, and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay BridgeThe San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge consists of two major segments connecting a central island, Yerba Buena Island, with each shore. The western segment terminating in San Francisco consists of two suspension bridges end-to-end with a central anchorage. cross San Francisco Bay from the peninsula.
Along the center line of the Peninsula is the northern half of the Santa Cruz MountainsThe Santa Cruz Mountains part of the Pacific Coast Ranges, are a mountain range in central California. They form a ridge along the San Francisco Peninsula, south of San Francisco, separating the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco Bay and the Santa Clara Val, formed by the action of plate tectonics20th century. Plate tectonics (from the Greek word for "one who constructs", τεκτων tekton ) is a theory of geology developed to explain the phenomenon of continental drift. In the theory of plate tectonics the outermost par along the San Andreas fault. In the middle of the Peninsula along the fault is the Crystal Springs reservoir , which inspired the James BondFor the ornithologist see James Bond (ornithologist). The fictional character James Bond is a sophisticated British spy, invented by and appearing in books by Ian Fleming (and later Kingsley Amis, John Gardner, Raymond Benson and Charlie Higson). Fleming movie, A View to a KillA View to a Kill released in 1985, is the fourteenth entry in the James Bond series of films made by EON Productions, and the last to star Roger Moore as British Secret Service Agent, Commander James Bond. It was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Michael. Just north of the Crystal Springs reservoir is the San Andreas reservoir after which the famous fault was named.
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