What is it about?
Map Sheets of Monterey Canyon and Vicinity are part of the California Seafloor Mapping Program (porta://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/mapping/csmp/) Blocks 40-41, providing comprehensive 1:24,000 scale maps offshore within California State Waters.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
Our maps provide the latest compilation of geology and geomorphology in Monterey Canyon and the adjacent continental shelf.
Perspectives
Check out Sheet 10 (geologic/geomorphic map), Sheet 9 (sediment thickness), and Sheet 8 (subsurface structure from seismic-reflection profiles).
Katherine L Maier
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: California State Waters Map Series—Monterey Canyon and vicinity, California, January 2016, US Geological Survey,
DOI: 10.3133/ofr20161072.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
