Los Angeles Margin

	False sun illumination of bathymetry and land DTM
	Backscatter from multibeam and land DTM.
	Fly-by Quicktime movie flying over Santa Monica Bay.
	Shaded relief oblique view of Los Angeles Margin bathymetry and land DTM looking towards the north east.
	3-D stereo image of Santa Monica Bay (use 3-D glasses).
	Download Arc/Info Export (.e00) files and full resolution TIFF images.

In 1996 the Pacific Seafloor Mapping Project surveyed the shelf and slope offshore Los Angeles, CA (between the 20 to 800-m isobaths) from Pt. Dume to the Paloes Verdes. In 1998 the project continued mapping to the south and surveyed the outer shelf, slope, and proximal basin off Long Beach and Newport. The two datasets were merged and regridded into a single database. These two surveys were conducted to support a USGS project studying marine pollution and geohazards along the Los Angeles Margin, southern California.. The data show, for the first time, the details of the continental margin of this region. The major elements include: the sediment-stripped Santa Monica Plateau the steep and eroded continental slope off Malibu the gullied clastic wedge created by the Los Angeles River the steep and eroded continental slope off the Palos Verdes Peninsula the sinuous Dume, Santa Monica, and Redondo Submarine Canyons the meandering and braided San Gabriel and Newport Canyons

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