CMECS geoform, CMECS substrate, and surficial geology offshore of Eureka, California

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This substrate, geomorphic, and geologic attributed polygon shapefile in the Offshore of Eureka, California, map area is part of USGS Data Series 781 (Golden and Cochrane, 2019). The map area is one of 83 map areas of the California State Waters Map Series. 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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Original Metadata XML The metadata original format Open resource
Digital Data XML Landing page for access to the data Open resource

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