Coastal and Marine Geology Program Internet Map Server:
Monterey Bay Region

U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-179 - Continental Shelf GIS for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

This Open-File CD-ROM contains selected data layers for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary GIS.

U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-68 (2001) - Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise: A Preliminary Database for the U.S. Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf of Mexico Coasts

This Digital Data Series CD-ROM contains a preliminary report of the National Assessment of Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise for the conterminous United States. In addition, the data used in these reports are included in GIS compatible format.

U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-61 - Año Nuevo to Santa Cruz, California – A Photographic Tour of the Coastline

This Digital Data Series CD-ROM contains a digital photographic survey documenting the coastal morphology and stratigraphy between Point Año Nuevo and Santa Cruz, California, with precision-navigated overlapping images. A GIS data layer documenting the location from which the photograph was obtained is also included.

U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-358 - USGS East-Coast Sediment Analysis: Procedures, Database, and Georeferenced Displays

CHAPTER 3; Visualizing Sediment Data Layers Using Geographic Mapping Tools

This Open-File CD-ROM contains a procedures section that describes field methods used to collect marine sediment samples and laboratory methods used to determine and characterize the grain-size distribution. This CD-ROM also contains a data release of over 19,000 surficial samples collected and or processed by the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Woods Hole Science Center.

This data layer is available in an ArcView shapefile format along with it's metadata from this server.  The data has been stored in a zip archive for convenience.