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    "title": "Landslide mass-wasting zones offshore of Southern California, 2023",
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    "descript": "Landslide mass-wasting zones have been mapped offshore of Southern California. Polygons were mapped from visual interpretation of high-resolution multibeam echosounder data (MBES) and single-beam echosounder data.",
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