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Offshore Digitizing
As a result of the high cost of labor in the U.S., most maps are sent overseas to be digitized in countries with low labor prices. Counties commonly associated with offshore digitizing include India and Taiwan.
"Offshore and at great depths, the Juan de Fuca Plate converges relatively steadily toward the North America plate margin, except at the shallow interface where it remains locked for centuries until it finally ruptures in a huge earthquake," says Dr.
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Onshore-Offshore Transport The up and down movement of sediment roughly perpendicular to a shoreline because of wave action. Open Sea That part of the ocean that extends from the continental shelf.
See: hydrographic survey offshore Comparatively flat zone of variable width that extends from the outer margin of the rather steeply sloping shoreface to the edge of the continental shelf.
The northern segment of the fault runs from Hollister, through the Santa Cruz Mountains, epicenter of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, then on up the San Francisco Peninsula, where it was first identified by Professor Lawson in 1895, then offshore at ...
In the western basin, aggregations of larger fish were located at the inshore and offshore ends of the transect. In the central basin, larger fish were located along bottom and in two near-surface groups.
One of the first industrial uses of GPS came in survey and seismic exploration for offshore oil, as evidenced by the cover story of this magazine's September 1992 issue.
abyssal plain -- The ocean floor offshore from the continental margin, usually very flat with a slight slope.
accrete -- v. To add terranes (small land masses or pieces of crust) to another, usually larger, land mass.
The motive to move offshore is to use the firm's competitive advantage/ core competency in conjunction with factor advantages in a foreign country.
breakwater A protective wall built offshore and usually parallel to the shore.
breccia A clastic rock in which the gravel-sized particles are angular in shape and make up an appreciable volume of the rock.
A waterway channel, maintained through dredging and sheltered for the most part by a series of linear offshore islands, that extends from New York City to Florida's southern tip and from Brownsville, Texas, to the eastern end of Florida's panhandle.
[surveying] A plane of reference for depths, depth contours, and elevations of foreshore and offshore features.
A plane of reference for depths, depth contours, and elevations of foreshore and offshore features.
hydrographic survey ...
Determining quantities of bottom excavations,
Location of navigation hazards (rocks, sand bars etc.) and navigation aids,
Monitoring of areas subject to erosion or silting, and
Positioning offshore structures.
Scanning/conversion of photographic media including motion-picture film, videotape, microfilm/fiche, aperture cards, paper, photo prints, negatives, slides & transparencies. In-house & offshore indexing.
Bars occur in rivers, river mouths and in offshore waters.
Barchan:
A sand dune that is crescent-shaped in map view. Barchan dunes form in areas of limited sand supply.
Offshore Well Any well subject to Commission jurisdiction between the barrier islands the three marine league line (approximately nine miles).
 See also: Information, Location, Map, Feature, Area
  
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