Metadata: Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Antoinette G. Papesh Originator: Maureen L. Walton Originator: James E. Conrad Originator: Daniel S. Brothers Originator: Jared W. Kluesner Originator: Mary L. McGann Publication_Date: 20230821 Title: Landslide mass-wasting zones offshore of Southern California, 2023 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: polygon shapefile Series_Information: Series_Name: data release Issue_Identification: DOI:10.5066/P9IIWTYL Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9IIWTYL Online_Linkage: https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5ef12a1382ced62aaae18f65 Larger_Work_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Antoinette G. Papesh Originator: Maureen L. Walton Originator: James E. Conrad Originator: Daniel S. Brothers Originator: Jared W. Kluesner Originator: Mary L. McGann Publication_Date: 2023 Title: Digital maps of submarine landslides and mass wasting features offshore of southern California, 2023 Series_Information: Series_Name: data release Issue_Identification: DOI:10.5066/P9IIWTYL Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9IIWTYL Description: Abstract: 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. Purpose: These data were compiled as a part of a USGS effort to understand the geologic processes of mass wasting offshore of Southern California. They are intended to provide baseline knowledge of the geology, geomorphology, and distribution of mass-wasting zones offshore of Southern California, for use by scientists, managers, and the general public. The data can be used with geographic information systems (GIS) software for research purposes. Supplemental_Information: Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Although this Federal Geographic Data Committee-compliant metadata file is intended to document the data set in nonproprietary form, as well as in Esri format, this metadata file may include some Esri-specific terminology. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 1998 Ending_Date: 20210730 Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -121.542615 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -117.605206 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 34.388852 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 31.220786 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation Theme_Keyword: oceans Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: Data Categories for Marine Planning Theme_Keyword: Distributions Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: scientific interpretation Theme_Keyword: geospatial datasets Theme_Keyword: earth characteristics Theme_Keyword: sea-floor characteristics Theme_Keyword: marine geophysics Theme_Keyword: marine geology Theme_Keyword: landslides Theme_Keyword: hazards Theme_Keyword: geologic processes Theme_Keyword: oceanic lithosphere Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: Marine Realms Information Bank (MRIB) keywords Theme_Keyword: natural agents of coastal change Theme_Keyword: geology Theme_Keyword: geophysics Theme_Keyword: geological features Theme_Keyword: hazards and disasters Theme_Keyword: earthquake effects Theme_Keyword: geologic mapping Theme_Keyword: oceanographic observations Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey Theme_Keyword: USGS Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program Theme_Keyword: CMHRP Theme_Keyword: Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Theme_Keyword: PCMSC Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Metadata Identifier Theme_Keyword: USGS:5ef12a1382ced62aaae18f65 Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) Place_Keyword: United States of America Place_Keyword: State of California Place_Keyword: Pacific Ocean Access_Constraints: None Use_Constraints: USGS-authored or produced data and information are in the public domain from the U.S. Government and are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize and acknowledge the U.S. Geological Survey as the originator(s) of the dataset and in products derived from these data. Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Contact_Person: PCMSC Science Data Coordinator Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical Address: 2885 Mission Street City: Santa Cruz State_or_Province: CA Postal_Code: 95060 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 831-427-4747 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: pcmsc_data@usgs.gov Browse_Graphic: Browse_Graphic_File_Name: masswastingzones_offshore_socal_2023_thumb.png Browse_Graphic_File_Description: Southern California location map with bathymetry and mass wasting/slide zones Browse_Graphic_File_Type: PNG Native_Data_Set_Environment: Mac Pro, Late 2013, with macOS High Sierra, version 10.13.6 running Parallels Virtual Machine; ESRI ArcGIS 10.7. Data_Quality_Information: Attribute_Accuracy: Attribute_Accuracy_Report: No formal attribute accuracy tests were conducted. See the sedage_ref attribute within the shapefile, and the accompanying ReferencesCited_offshore_socal_2023.pdf file in the Attached Files section (https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5d9bc778e4b0366162923190), for details on where to find accuracy information regarding the data reported in the sed_age attribute. Logical_Consistency_Report: No formal logical accuracy tests were conducted. Completeness_Report: Dataset is considered complete for the information presented, as described in the abstract. Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy: Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: These data and associated attributes have been created from several bathymetric datasets. Mass-wasting zone mapping was cross-checked where more than one bathymetric dataset spanned a suspected mass-wasting zone. The accuracy of mass-wasting zone mapping correlates to the highest resolution dataset that spans a particular mass-wasting zone. Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Peter Dartnell Originator: Neal W. Driscoll Originator: Daniel S. Brothers Originator: James E. Conrad Originator: Jared Kluesner Originator: Graham Kent Originator: Brian D. Andrews Publication_Date: 2015 Title: Colored shaded-relief bathymetry, acoustic backscatter, and selected perspective views of the inner continental borderland, southern California Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Raster Digital Data Set Series_Information: Series_Name: Scientific Investigations Map Issue_Identification: DOI:10.3133/sim3324 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, VA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.3133/sim3324 Type_of_Source_Media: Digital Resource Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 1998 Ending_Date: 2014 Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Dartnell and others, 2015 Source_Contribution: High resolution multibeam bathymetry was used as a base layer to begin drawing polygons for landslide interpretation. This source is a compilation of new and publicly available multibeam bathymetry data gridded at 25-meter resolution. Links to the data sources used are in the Data Catalog of the report. Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Peter Dartnell Originator: Emily C. Roland Originator: Nicole A. Raineault Originator: Christopher M. Castillo Originator: James E. Conrad Originator: Renato Kane Originator: Daniel S. Brothers Originator: Jared W. Kluesner Originator: Maureen A. L. Walton Publication_Date: 2021 Title: Colored shaded-relief bathymetry, acoustic backscatter, and selected perspective views of the northern part of the California Continental Borderland, southern California Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Raster Digital Data Set Series_Information: Series_Name: Scientific Investigations Map Issue_Identification: DOI:10.3133/sim3473 Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Reston, VA Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.3133/sim3473 Type_of_Source_Media: Digital resource Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 1998 Ending_Date: 2018 Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Dartnell and others, 2021 Source_Contribution: High resolution multibeam bathymetry was used as a base layer to begin drawing polygons for landslide interpretation. This is a compilation of publicly available multibeam bathymetry data published at various resolutions ranging from 2-30 meters. Data sources used are shown on Figure 1 of the report and links to the data are provided therein. Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Seafloor Mapping Lab of California State University Monterey Bay Publication_Date: 2018 Title: California Margin Geology Series Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Raster Digital Data Sets Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Seaside, CA Publisher: California State University, Monterey Bay Online_Linkage: http://seafloor.otterlabs.org/SFMLwebDATA.htm Type_of_Source_Media: Digital resource Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 2000 Ending_Date: 2018 Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Seafloor Mapping Lab, 2018 Source_Contribution: High resolution multibeam bathymetry was used as a base layer to begin drawing polygons for landslide interpretation. High resolution multibeam bathymetry data at resolutions ranging from 2 – 10 meters from survey datasets H11875, H11876, H11877, H11878, H11879, H11880, H11881, H11882, H11883, H11891, H11950, H11951, H11952, H11953, and the 2014 Southern California Data Gap Project (Dana Point, San Onofre Blocks 01-03, La Jolla, Mission Beach, Point Loma North, Point Loma South, and Imperial Beach) were used. Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: MBARI Seafloor Mapping Team Publication_Date: 2001 Title: Santa Barbara multibeam survey Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Raster Digital Data Set Publication_Information: Publication_Place: online Publisher: MBARI Online_Linkage: https://www3.mbari.org/data/mapping/Santa_Barbara_Basin/ Type_of_Source_Media: Digital resource Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 1998 Ending_Date: 2001 Source_Currentness_Reference: published 2001 Source_Citation_Abbreviation: MBARI Seafloor Mapping Team, 2001 Source_Contribution: High resolution multibeam bathymetry was used as a base layer to begin drawing polygons for landslide interpretation. Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: NOAA Publication_Date: 2012 Title: U.S. Coastal Relief Model - Southern California vers. 2 Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: Raster Digital Data Sets Publication_Information: Publication_Place: online Publisher: NOAA Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.7289/V5V985ZM Type_of_Source_Media: Digital resource Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 19990101 Ending_Date: Present Source_Currentness_Reference: published 2013-07-08 Source_Citation_Abbreviation: National Geophysical Data Center, 2012 Source_Contribution: The NCEI 3-arc-second elevation grid (approximately 90-meter resolution) was used as a base layer to begin drawing polygons for landslide interpretation where no high resolution multibeam bathymetry data (listed above) were available. Process_Step: Process_Description: A compilation of existing bathymetry data was used as a base layer to map landslide features. Data from listed sources was downsampled in ESRI ArcMap and merged into a single 30-m grid to create the base layer. In some cases, the source swath data was higher resolution than the 30-m compilation and was used to map landslide features. A list of source swath data is detailed in the Source Used Citations. Where high (<30 m) resolution data was unavailable, the 90-m resolution NOAA Coastal Relief Model was used as the base layer. Using this base layer, landslides, headwall scarps, and areas of mass-wasting were mapped. Mapped landslide bodies were divided into evacuation zones and debris aprons based on negative (i.e., evacuation zones) or positive (i.e., debris aprons) seafloor relief associated with the landslide masses. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Dartnell and others, 2015 Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Dartnell and others, 2021 Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Seafloor Mapping Lab, 2018 Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: MBARI Seafloor Mapping Team, 2001 Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, 2012 Process_Date: 20230202 Spatial_Data_Organization_Information: Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector Point_and_Vector_Object_Information: SDTS_Terms_Description: SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: GT-polygon composed of chains Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 36 Spatial_Reference_Information: Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition: Geographic: Latitude_Resolution: 0.0001 Longitude_Resolution: 0.0001 Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees Geodetic_Model: Horizontal_Datum_Name: D_WGS_1984 Ellipsoid_Name: WGS_1984 Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.0 Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257223563 Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: slidezones_offshore_socal_2023 Entity_Type_Definition: polygons representing mapped mass-wasting zones Entity_Type_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute: Attribute_Label: FID Attribute_Definition: internal feature number Attribute_Definition_Source: Esri Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: automatically generated sequential unique whole number identifier Attribute: Attribute_Label: Shape Attribute_Definition: feature geometry Attribute_Definition_Source: Esri Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: feature type Attribute: Attribute_Label: name_id Attribute_Definition: the name of the mass-wasting zone Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey and California Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Mass-wasting zone names are a unique shortform abbreviated name based on mass-wasting zone location. We define prefixes as follows: 30mile is Thirtymile Bank; 40mile is Fortymile Bank; CB is Catalina Basin; CI is Catalina Island; CR is Cortez Ridge; GSC is Gulf of Santa Catalina; PE is Patton Escarpment; SBB is Santa Barbara Basin; SCB is Santa Cruz Basin; SCCR is Santa Cruz-Catalina Ridge; SMB is Santa Monica Basin; SPB is San Pedro Basin. Names are prepended with “zone” and are appended with unique whole number identifiers. Attribute: Attribute_Label: location Attribute_Definition: the geographic location of the mass-wasting zone Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey and California Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: The geographic location of the mass-wasting zone Attribute: Attribute_Label: area_m2 Attribute_Definition: Area of mass-wasting zone in square meters Attribute_Definition_Source: Esri Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 138488 Range_Domain_Maximum: 1353691751 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: square meters Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 1 Attribute: Attribute_Label: area_err Attribute_Definition: Estimated mass-wasting zone area uncertainty from data resolution and user interpretation, values in square meters. GIS-calculated area was approximated as a circle geometry with radius uncertainty of plus or minus 50 meters and plus or minus 20 meters for areas greater and less than 100,000 square meters, respectively. These values are based on 2 pixels of the likely resolution of bathymetric data used for mapping (25-meter and 10-meter resolutions). The calculated error is the standard deviation of the maximum, minimum, and picked geometries. Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 66116 Range_Domain_Maximum: 6521311 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: square meters Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 1 Attribute: Attribute_Label: slope_deg Attribute_Definition: GIS-calculated mean slope approximation of the mass-wasting zone in degrees from the underlying NCEI Coastal Relief Model gridded slope map Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey and California Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Range_Domain: Range_Domain_Minimum: 4.7 Range_Domain_Maximum: 25 Attribute_Units_of_Measure: degrees Attribute_Measurement_Resolution: 0.1 Attribute: Attribute_Label: sed_age Attribute_Definition: geologic age of sediment for the majority of the failure area, from literature, "unspecified" if no age data are available. See the sedage_ref attribute and the accompanying ReferencesCited_offshore_socal_2023.pdf file in the Attached Files section (https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5d9bc778e4b0366162923190) for a comprehensive list of sources used Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: pre-Late Cretaceous Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: an age older than 99.6 Ma Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS, 2010; Cohen and others, 2023 Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: Paleocene Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: an age of 55.8-65.5 Ma Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS, 2010; Cohen and others, 2023 Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: Eocene Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: an age of 55.8-33.9 Ma Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS, 2010; Cohen and others, 2023 Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: Miocene Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: an age of 23.03-5.33 Ma Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS, 2010; Cohen and others, 2023 Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: Pliocene Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: an age of 5.33-2.59 Ma Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS, 2010; Cohen and others, 2023 Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: Quaternary Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: an age of 2.58 Ma-Present Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: USGS, 2010; Cohen and others, 2023 Attribute: Attribute_Label: sedage_ref Attribute_Definition: citation information for the sed_age attribute, "n/a" if no age data are available Attribute_Definition_Source: U.S. Geological Survey and California Geological Survey Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: Source citations used to characterize the age of the failed sediment in the sed_age attribute. See the accompanying ReferencesCited_offshore_socal_2023.pdf file in the Attached Files section (https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5d9bc778e4b0366162923190) for a comprehensive list of sources used. Overview_Description: Entity_and_Attribute_Overview: Polygon shapefile containing outlines and attributes of mass-wasting zones offshore of California. 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Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 20230821 Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Contact_Person: PCMSC Science Data Coordinator Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing and physical Address: 2885 Mission Street City: Santa Cruz State_or_Province: CA Postal_Code: 95060 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 831-427-4747 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: pcmsc_data@usgs.gov Metadata_Standard_Name: Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998