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CMECS geoform, CMECS substrate, and surficial geology offshore of Point Buchon (ver. 1.1, January 2024)

Published by U.S. Geological Survey | Department of the Interior | Catalog Last Checked: August 01, 2026 at 04:07 AM | Dataset Last Updated: January 26, 2024 at 12:00 AM
This shapefile has substrate, geomorphic, and geologic attributed polygons in the Offshore of Point Buchon, California, map area, one of 83 map areas of the California State Waters Map Series, USGS Data Series 781 (Golden and Cochrane, 2019). The polygons are derived from multibeam echosounder (MBES) data and derivatives of that data using video-supervised and unsupervised classification. Attributes and attribute values are named following the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS; Federal Geographic Data Committee, 2012) to be useful for ecosystems management.

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