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| Value | Definition |
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| af | Artificial fill |
| Qms | Marine nearshore and shelf deposits |
| Qmsc | Coarse-grained marine nearshore and shelf deposits |
| Qmsf | Fine-grained marine shelf deposits |
| Qmsd | Marine shelf scour depressions |
| Qwp | Submerged wave-cut platform |
| Qwpr | Submerged wave-cut platform riser |
| Qms/Tp | Sediment-covered Purisima Formation |
| Qms/Tm | Sediment-covered Monterey Formation |
| Qms/Tvb | Sediment-covered Volcanic rocks |
| Qms/Tc | Sediment-covered Carmelo Formation |
| Qms/Tu | Sediment-covered Sedimentary rocks, undivided |
| Qms/Kgr | Sediment-covered Granitic rocks of Monterey |
| Qchc | Submarine canyon-head channel deposits |
| Qcpcf | Submarine canyon proximal active axial channel fill |
| Qccf2 | Submarine canyon active axial channel fill |
| Qccf1 | Submarine canyon active tributary channel fill |
| Qcb | Submarine canyon inner bench |
| Qmscp | Submarine canyon platform |
| Qcw | Submarine canyon walls |
| Tp | Purisima Formation |
| Tm | Monterey Formation |
| Tvb | Volcanic rocks |
| Tc | Carmelo Formation |
| Tu | Sedimentary rocks, undivided |
| Kgr | Granitic rocks of Monterey |
| Tpcw | Purisima Formation; occurs within submarine canyon walls |
| Tmcw | Monterey Formation; occurs within submarine canyon walls |
| Kgcw | Granitic rocks of Monterey; occurs within submarine canyon walls |
To expand geologic mapping to the seafloor within the California's State Waters, to update coastal geologic mapping, and to contribute to a uniform regional geologic database. Additionally, to provide a geologic map for the public and geoscience community to aid in assessments and mitigation of geologic hazards in the Monterey Bay and Vicinity region and to provide sufficient geologic information for land-use and land-management decisions both onshore and offshore. This information is not intended for navigational purposes.
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Are there legal restrictions on access or use of the data?Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints:USGS-authored or produced data and information are in the public domain. Acknowledge the U.S. Geological Survey and California State University, Monterey Bay, Seafloor Mapping Lab in products derived from these data. Share data products developed using these data with the U.S. Geological Survey. This information is not intended for navigational purposes. Read and fully comprehend the metadata prior to data use. Uses of these data should not violate the spatial resolution of the data. Where these data are used in combination with other data of different resolution, the resolution of the combined output will be limited by the lowest resolution of all the data. This database has been approved for release and publication by the Director of the USGS. Although this database has been subjected to rigorous review and is substantially complete, the USGS reserves the right to revise the data pursuant to further analysis and review. Furthermore, it is released on condition that neither the USGS nor the United States Government may be held liable for any damages resulting from its authorized or unauthorized use. Although this Federal Geographic Data Committee-compliant metadata file is intended to document these data in nonproprietary form, as well as in ArcInfo format, this metadata file may include some ArcInfo-specific terminology.
These databases, identified as geology maps of the Offshore of Monterey map area, California have been approved for release and publication by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Although these databases have been subjected to rigorous review and are substantially complete, the USGS reserves the right to revise the data pursuant to further analysis and review. Furthermore, it is released on condition that neither the USGS nor the United States Government may be held liable for any damages resulting from its authorized or unauthorized use. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. The USGS or the U.S. Government shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof. These data are not intended for navigational use.
| Data format: | The .zip file for a shapefile includes the .aux, .dbf, .shp, .shx, .sbx, and .sbn files, as well as FGDC-compliant metadata for the Geology data layer of Offshore Monterey, California. in format shapefile (version ArcMap (version 10.0, ESRI , 2011)) Point, line, and polygon features are in shapefile format and are projected in UTM Zone 10 coordinates, with datum WGS84. Size: 1 |
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https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/file/get/56d0db8fe4b015c306ee9ca9 https://doi.org/10.5066/F70Z71C8 https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/781/ |
The downloadable data file has been compressed with the "zip" command and can be unzipped with Winzip (or other tool) on Windows systems. To utilize these data, the user must have software capable of uncompressing the WinZip file and importing and viewing an Esri ArcMap TIFF. Users should download the ArcGIS Project File, OffshoreMontereyGIS.mxd.zip, a compressed (with the "zip" command) version of the ArcMap document (.mxd) that has all the data layers loaded in the table of contents for "Offshore of Monterey map area" and has all the data symbolized as on the data release map sheets. Download and save this ArcGIS project file, including all data layers, to the directory the user has created for this GIS.
