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    "tag": 19486,
    "title": "GeoPackage of Seabed Hazards for Offshore Infrastructure, U.S. Atlantic and Pacific Continental Shelves",
    "pubdate": "20250805",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "DOI:10.5066\/P1SLUTW9",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/SB_data_release\/DR_P1SLUTW9\/USGS_GHZD_DB_meta.faq.html",
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    "descript": "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.",
    "lang": null,
    "journal": null,
    "pwid": null,
    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Curran, Brian J.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Brothers, Laura L.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
    "index_term": [
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "531",
            "name": "hazards",
            "scope": "Potential dangers from both natural processes (e.g., earthquakes, floods, and climate change) and human impacts on the environment."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "706",
            "name": "marine geology",
            "scope": "Branch of geology concerned with the composition, geologic history, and earth processes of the ocean floor and the continental margin."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "2093",
            "name": "study areas",
            "scope": "Geospatial data describing the areas from which samples were taken or observations were made, typically polygonal.  May be approximate, as in bounding coordinates, or precise."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "007",
            "name": "environment",
            "scope": "Environmental resources, protection and conservation, for example environmental pollution, waste storage and treatment, environmental impact assessment, monitoring environmental risk, nature reserves, landscape, water quality, air quality, environmental modeling"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "014",
            "name": "oceans",
            "scope": "Features and characteristics of salt water bodies (excluding inland waters), for example tides, tidal waves, coastal information, reefs, maritime, outer continental shelf submerged lands, shoreline"
        }
    ],
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    "image": [
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            "name": "https:\/\/www.sciencebase.gov\/catalog\/file\/get\/67dacd32d34ef1653388702f\/?name=GOM_BOEM_OCS_A0567.png&allowOpen=true",
            "description": "Sea floor topography in and around BOEM lease area OCS-A-0567 exhibiting many sea-floor hazards."
        }
    ],
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