Dataset description: Faults--Offshore of Monterey, California
Geometry
This part of DS 781 presents fault data for the geologic and geomorphic map of the Offshore of Monterey map area, California. The vector data file is included in ""Faults_OffshoreMonterey.zip,"" which is accessible from https://doi.org/10.5066/F70Z71C8. These data accompany the pamphlet and map sheets of Johnson, S.Y., Dartnell, P., Hartwell, S.R., Cochrane, G.R., Golden, N.E., Watt, J.T., Davenport, C.W., Kvitek, R.G., Erdey, M.D., Krigsman, L.M., Sliter, R.W., and Maier, K.L. (S.Y. Johnson and S.A. Cochran, eds.), 2016, California State Waters Map Series-Offshore of Monterey, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016-1110, pamphlet 44 p., 10 sheets, scale 1:24,000, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161110.
Faults in the Offshore of Monterey map area are identified on seismic-reflection data based on abrupt truncation or warping of reflections and (or) juxtaposition of reflection panels with different seismic parameters such as reflection presence, amplitude, frequency, geometry, continuity, and vertical sequence. Faults were primarily mapped by interpretation of seismic reflection profile data from USGS field activity S0-6-11MB collected in 2011.
