Elevation maps of the San Francisco Bay region, California, a digital database
Open-File Report
98-625
By: Scott E. Graham and Richard J. Pike
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Abstract
PREFACE: Topography, the configuration of the land surface, plays a major role in various natural processes that have helped shape the ten-county San Francisco Bay region and continue to affect its development. Such processes include a dangerous type of landslide, the debris flow (Ellen and others, 1997) as well as other modes of slope failure that damage property but rarely threaten life directly?slumping, translational sliding, and earthflow (Wentworth and others, 1997). Different types of topographic information at both local and regional scales are helpful in assessing the likelihood of slope failure and the mapping the extent of its past activity, as well as addressing
other issues in hazard mitigation and land-use policy. The most useful information is quantitative.
Study Area
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Elevation maps of the San Francisco Bay region, California, a digital database |
| Series title | Open-File Report |
| Series number | 98-625 |
| DOI | 10.3133/ofr98625 |
| Edition | Version 1.0 |
| Year Published | 1998 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Publisher | The Survey, |
| Contributing office(s) | Western Earth Surface Processes |
| Description | Digital data files; 17 p. explanatory pamphlet |
| Scale | 275000 |
| Google Analytic Metrics | Metrics page |