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GeoPackage of Seabed Hazards for Offshore Infrastructure, U.S. Atlantic and Pacific Continental Shelves
Energy and resource development is increasing along the Nation's outer continental shelves. Offshore energy infrastructure, including oil and gas platforms, mining devices and other engineering structures, are subject to a variety of shallow hazards such as mobile seabeds, shallow gas, glauconite and seismicity. In partnership with the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) inventoried the non-proprietary portions of studies conducted by offshore wind developers and the studies of other researchers to characterize seabed geohazards on the United States's Atlantic and Pacific continental shelves. From this inventory we created a GeoPackage where the studies and geohazards can be examined in a spatial context. The seabed characteristics resolved within this GeoPackage give insight into the siting and monitoring needs for installing sea-floor cables, pipelines, foundations, or other types of development, as well as the broader geological and environmental conditions of a given area.
| Author(s) |
Brian J Curran,
Laura Brothers |
| Publication Date | 2025-08-05 |
| Beginning Date of Data | 1972 |
| Ending Date of Data | 2024 |
| Data Contact | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.5066/P1SLUTW9 |
| Citation | Curran, B.J., and Brothers, L., 2025, GeoPackage of Seabed Hazards for Offshore Infrastructure, U.S. Atlantic and Pacific Continental Shelves: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P1SLUTW9. |
| Metadata Contact | |
| Metadata Date | 2025-09-26 |
| Related Publication | There was no related primary publication associated with this data release. |
| Citations of these data | No citations of these data are known at this time. |
| Access | public |
| License | http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/ |
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