The Carquinez Strait () is a narrow tidal strait in Northern California. It is part of the tidal estuary of the Sacramento and the San Joaquin rivers as they drain into the San Francisco Bay. The strait is eight miles long and connects Suisun Bay, which receives the waters of the combined rivers, with San Pablo Bay, a northern extension of the San Francisco Bay.
The strait formed in prehistoric times, near the close of one of the past ice ages, when an inland lake covered the present-day Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. Melting ice from the Sierra Nevada mountain range raised the lake level while seismic activity formed a new outlet to the Pacific Ocean, draining the lake into the ocean and exposing the two valleys.
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