{ "culture": "en-US", "name": "", "guid": "", "catalogPath": "", "snippet": "Since November 2007, the Department of Conservation's California Geological Survey (CGS) has been a technical consultant to the Department of Water Resources (DWR) and its Alluvial Fan Task Force (AFTF) for a 10-county southern California area including San Bernardino, Riverside, Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Kern, Orange, Imperial, and San Diego. In this capacity, CGS has assisted in identifying geologic hazards and natural resources that could affect or be affected by development on alluvial fans, and in preparing guidance for alluvial fan floodplain management. The CGS Compilation of Quaternary Surficial Deposits in Southern California was designed as a regional-scale planning tool to assist DWR, the AFTF, and local communities in evaluating future development on alluvial fans. The detailed geologic features shown on recent high-resolution geologic maps that cover portions of southern California from Santa Barbara to San Diego have been compiled into a single source GIS dataset. A derivative GIS dataset has also been created that merges geologic mapping from various authors, and at different scales, into a common seamless format that normalizes and differentiates the various alluvial fan and related Quaternary deposits into forty geological units for the entire area at a scale of 1:100,000.", "description": "
The geo_poly feature class is a compilation of detailed geologic features shown on 21 recent high-resolution digital maps that cover a large portion of southern California.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV>",
"summary": "Since November 2007, the Department of Conservation's California Geological Survey (CGS) has been a technical consultant to the Department of Water Resources (DWR) and its Alluvial Fan Task Force (AFTF) for a 10-county southern California area including San Bernardino, Riverside, Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Kern, Orange, Imperial, and San Diego. In this capacity, CGS has assisted in identifying geologic hazards and natural resources that could affect or be affected by development on alluvial fans, and in preparing guidance for alluvial fan floodplain management. The CGS Compilation of Quaternary Surficial Deposits in Southern California was designed as a regional-scale planning tool to assist DWR, the AFTF, and local communities in evaluating future development on alluvial fans. The detailed geologic features shown on recent high-resolution geologic maps that cover portions of southern California from Santa Barbara to San Diego have been compiled into a single source GIS dataset. A derivative GIS dataset has also been created that merges geologic mapping from various authors, and at different scales, into a common seamless format that normalizes and differentiates the various alluvial fan and related Quaternary deposits into forty geological units for the entire area at a scale of 1:100,000.",
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"San Bernardino County",
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"Orange County",
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"Southern California",
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"Los Angeles County",
"Ventura County",
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"San Diego County",
"Riverside County",
"Kern County",
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"Santa Barbara County",
"Imperial County",
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"San Luis Obispo County",
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"accessInformation": "This data was created and compiled by California Geological Survey. This project was funded by Department of Water Resources.",
"licenseInfo": " The State of California and the Department of Conservation make no representations or warranties regarding the accuracy of data or maps. Neither the State nor the Department shall be liable under any circumstances for any direct, special, incidental, or consequential damages with respect to any claim by any user or third party on account of or arising from the use of data or maps. Users should cite the Department of Conservation, California Geological Survey as the original source of the data, but clearly denote cases where the original data have been updated, modified, or in any way altered from the original condition. Additionally, the information on these maps is not sufficient to serve as a substitute for geologic and geotechnical site investigations required under Chapters 7.5 and 7.8 of Division 2 of the California Public Resources Code.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV>",
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