WEST: Geologic Interpretation of the Geologic LOng-Range Inclined Asdic (GLORIA) composite sidescan sonar mosaic for the U.S. Pacific Coast (California, Oregon, Washington)

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Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: U.S. Geological Survey
Publication_Date: 1991
Title:
WEST: Geologic Interpretation of the Geologic LOng-Range Inclined Asdic (GLORIA) composite sidescan sonar mosaic for the U.S. Pacific Coast (California, Oregon, Washington)
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Open-File Report
Issue_Identification: 91-396
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Reston, VA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
Online_Linkage:
<http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/GISdata/regional/westcoast/gloria/shapes/gloria_interp/west.zip>
Larger_Work_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Molly G. Groome
Originator: Christina E. Gutmacher
Originator: Andrew J. Stevenson
Publication_Date: 1997
Title:
Atlas of GLORIA Sidescan-Sonar Imagery of the Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States: EEZ-View
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Open-File Report
Issue_Identification: 97-540
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Western Regional Coastal and Marine Geology, Menlo Park, CA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Description:
Abstract:
The GLORIA image of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) off California, Oregon, and Washington covers about 830,000 square kilometers (sq km) of sea floor. Many geologic features visible on the imagery are representative of a tectonically active continental margin: volcanic ridges and seamounts, faults, crustal lineaments, channels, levees, slump scars, large sediment bedforms, and varying sediment types. This data layer provides a geologic interpretation of the Geologic LO-Range Inclinded Asdic (GLORIA) data for the U.S. Pacific Coast.
Purpose:
These data are intended for science researchers, students, policy makers, and the general public. The data can be used with geographic information systems (GIS) software to display information about the deep water Pacific Ocean area of the U.S. westcoast.
Supplemental_Information:
The geologic processes active along this margin differ north and south of about latitude 40º N due to a major change in the nature of the ocean-continent plate boundary. North of latitude 40º N, the North American Plate boundary is a subduction zone; south of 40º N the plate boundary is transform.
In the north, new ocean crust forms along the Juan de Fuca spreading center, as oceanic plates move apart. This spreading center is part of the global ridge system that extends 50,000 km through all the ocean basins. The Blanco Fracture Zone accommodates the offset between the Juan de Fuca Ridge and the Gorda Ridge. Cascadia Channel, a major sediment conduit, can be clearly traced from offshore central Oregon south to where it snakes through the Blanco Fracture Zone, and then heads off the mosaic to the west. The channel transports sediment from the Columbia and Fraser River systems westward more than 500 km across the Juan de Fuca and Pacific Plates. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is active along the Washington, Oregon, and northern California coasts: here the North American continental plate overrides both the Gorda and the Juan de Fuca oceanic plates, causing large earthquakes and creating the string of Cascade volcanoes in Oregon and Washington. The Mendocino Fracture Zone (MFZ) is a right-lateral transform fault that forms the boundary between the young crust of the Gorda Plate to the north and the older, more sediment-covered Pacific Plate to the south and accommodates the relative motion between these two tectonic plates. Use the magnifier tool to see the Gorda Ridge in more detail (bright, NE-SW trending feature between the Blanco and Mendocino Fracture Zones).
South of latitude 40º N, the transform plate boundary is located onshore near the shoreline. The geologic features most visible in the mosaic are deep-sea fans and seamounts. Perhaps the best-studied submarine fan in the area is the Monterey Fan. The continental margin off central California has a narrow shelf and steep slope. The margin extends from the shoreline to depths of 3,000 meters. Monterey Bay is a 40-km (N-S) by 10-km (E-W) reentrant of the coastline that forms a shallow, relatively broad portion of the shelf. The continental slope seaward of Monterey Bay is incised by the large Monterey Canyon system. This canyon system feeds sediment to the Monterey Fan, which covers about 100,000 sq km of sea floor. The Monterey Fan, bounded on the north by the Farallon Fan and on the south by the Murray Fracture Zone, thins to the west, ending more than 400 km from the shoreline.
The large influx of sediment along the central California margin, which created the numerous deep-sea fans, diminishes to the south. A large number of seamounts are visible along the southern California margin draped with only a thin covering of sediment.
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Calendar_Date: 199112
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Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Program
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Theme_Keyword: Geologic LO-Range Inclined Asdic
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Place_Keyword: Pacific Ocean
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Place_Keyword: California
Place_Keyword: Oregon
Place_Keyword: Washington
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Public domain data from the U.S. government are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as the source of this information.
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Florence Wong
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: fwong@usgs.gov
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Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: EEZ-SCAN 84 Scientific Staff
Publication_Date: 1986
Title:
Atlas of the Exclusive Economic Zone, western conterminous United States
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Miscellaneous Investigation Series
Issue_Identification: I-1792
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Reston, VA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
Other_Citation_Details: 152 p.
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Muriel S. Grim
Originator: Joseph M. Coddington
Originator: Russell A. Ambroziak
Originator: E.J. McFaul
Publication_Date: 1991
Title:
GLORIA IMAGERY AND BATHYMETRY from the U.S. EEZ off Washington, Oregon, and California
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Open File Report
Issue_Identification: 91-396
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Reston, VA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
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Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: J.V. Gardner (editor)
Originator: M.E. Field (editor)
Originator: D.C. Twichell (editor)
Publication_Date: 1996
Title: Geology of the United States Seafloor: The View from GLORIA
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Cambridge, U.K.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: B.A. McGregor
Publication_Date: 1988
Title: Mapping the EEZ: The first million square miles
Series_Information:
Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey Yearbook
Issue_Identification: Fiscal Year 1987, p. 64-68
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Reston, VA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: M.L. Somers
Originator: R.M. Carson
Originator: J.A. Revie
Originator: R.H. Edge
Originator: B.J. Barrows
Originator: A.G. Edwards
Publication_Date: 1978
Title: GLORIA II-an improved long range sidescan sonar
Series_Information:
Series_Name:
Processings of the Institute of Electrical Engineering on Offshore Instrumentation and Communications
Issue_Identification: Oceanology International Technical Session J, p.16-24
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: London, England
Publisher: BPS Publications Ltd.
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Postal_Code: 94025
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Contact_Voice_Telephone: (650) 329-5327
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (540) 329-5198
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: fwong@usgs.gov
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Although these data have been used by the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data.
The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the use of this data, software, or related materials.
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