Folds: Offshore of Carpinteria, California, 2013

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Abstract
This line shapefile contains geologic folds within the offshore area of Carpinteria, California. This map area lies within the Western Transverse Ranges geologic province, which is north of the California Continental Borderland (Fisher and others, 2009). This province has undergone significant north-south compression since the Miocene, and recent GPS data suggest north-south shortening of about 6 to 10 mm/yr (Larson and Webb, 1992; Donnellan and others, 1993). The active, east-west-striking, north-dipping Pitas Point Fault (a broad zone that includes south-dipping reverse faults), Red Mountain Fault, and Rincon Creek Fault are some of the structures on which this shortening occurs (see, for example, Jackson and Yeats, 1982; Sorlien and others, 2000; Fisher and others, 2009). This fault system, in aggregate, extends for about 100 km through the Ventura and Santa Barbara Basins and represents an important earthquake hazard. These data were published in Scientific Investigations Map 3261, "California State Waters Map Series--Offshore of Carpinteria, California." This layer is part of USGS Data Series 781.
Purpose
In 2007, the California Ocean Protection Council initiated the California Seafloor Mapping Program (CSMP) to create a comprehensive seafloor map of high-resolution bathymetry, marine benthic habitats and geology within the 3-nautical-mile limit of California's State Waters. CSMP has divided coastal California into 110 map blocks, each to be published individually as United States Geological Survey Open-File Reports (OFRs) or Scientific Investigations Maps (SIMs) at a scale of 1:24,000. Maps display seafloor morphology and character, identify potential marine benthic habitats and illustrate both the seafloor geology and shallow (to about 100 m) subsurface geology. Data layers for bathymetry, bathymetric contours, acoustic backscatter, seafloor character, potential benthic habitat and offshore geology were created for each map block, as well as regional-scale data layers for sediment thickness, depth to transition, transgressive contours, isopachs, predicted distributions of benthic macro-invertebrates and visual observations of benthic habitat from video cruises over the entire state. These data are intended for science researchers, students, policy makers, and the general public. This information is not intended for navigational purposes.The data can be used with geographic information systems (GIS) software to display geologic and oceanographic information. Additionally, this coverage can provide a geologic map for the public and geoscience community to aid in assessments and mitigation of geologic hazards in the coastal region and sufficient geologic information for land-use and land-management decisions both onshore and offshore. This information is not intended for navigational purposes.

Description

Type of resource cartographic, software, multimedia
Form Shapefile
Extent 0.002
Place Santa Cruz, California, US
Publisher Geological Survey (U.S.)
Date valid 2013
Publication date 2013
Language English
Digital origin born digital
Map data Scale not given. ; EPSG::32611 W 119°37ʹ26ʺ--W 119°25ʹ36ʺ/N 34°23ʹ51ʺ--N 34°17ʹ57ʺW 119°37ʹ26ʺ--W 119°25ʹ37ʺ/N 34°23ʹ37ʺ--N 34°18ʹ7ʺ, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326

Creators/Contributors

Creator Johnson, Samuel Y.
Creator Ritchie, Andrew C.
Creator Phillips, Eleyne L.
Creator Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Creator Golden, Nadine E.

Subjects

Subject Folds (Geology)
Subject Ocean bottom
Subject Coasts
Subject California
Subject Santa Barbara County (Calif.)
Subject Pacific Ocean
Subject 2013
Subject Geoscientific Information
Subject Oceans
Genre Geospatial data
Genre Cartographic dataset

Bibliographic information

Supplemental information Map political location: Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, California Compilation scale: 1:24,000 Base maps used are hillshades generated from IfSAR, LiDAR, and multibeam mapping both onshore and offshore (see sheets 1 and 2, SIM 3261 for more information). ). References Cited: Donnellan, A., Hager, B.H., and King, R.W., 1993, Discrepancy between geologic and geodetic deformation rates in the Ventura basin: Nature, v. 346, p. 333-336. Fisher, M.A., Sorlien, C.C., and Sliter, R.W., 2009, Potential earthquake faults offshore southern California from the eastern Santa Barbara channel to Dana Point, in Lee, H.J., and Normark, W.R., eds., Earth science in the urban ocean--The Southern California Continental Borderland: Geological Society of America Special Paper 454, p. 271-290. Jackson, P.A., and Yeats, R.S., 1982, Structural evolution of Carpinteria basin, western Transverse Ranges, California: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 66, p. 805-829. Larson, K.M., and Webb, F.H., 1992, Deformation in the Santa Barbara Channel from GPS measurements 1987-1991: Geophysical News Letters, v. 19, p. 1,491-1,494. Sorlien, C.C., Gratier, J.P., Luyendyk, B.P., Hornafius, J.S., and Hopps, T.E., 2000, Map restoration of folded and faulted late Cenozoic strata across the Oak Ridge fault, onshore and offshore Ventura basin, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 112, p. 1,080-1,090.
WGS84 Cartographics This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/cb791wp6993

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U.S. Geological Survey. (2013). Folds: Offshore of Carpinteria, California, 2013. California State Waters Map Series Data Catalog: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 781. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/cb791wp6993.

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