Two shapefiles mapping the locations of ancient and modern passive margin boundaries are presented. These data are a digital recreation of the work originally published by Bradley (2008). The ancient passive margin data were used as an evidential layer to map prospectivity for sediment-hosted Pb-Zn mineral systems (Lawley and others, 2022). The ancient passive margins dataset includes additional attributes related to the boundary's orogenic setting and history, the length of the boundary, its estimated lifespan, and its modern-day country location. Although only ancient passive margin boundaries were analyzed for the United States, Canada, and Australia for this study, boundaries for the world are included in the shapefile. The modern passive margin dataset includes an identifier for the margin segment, a margin name, the associated ocean, and age ranges of basin initiation, mean age and length of the respective passive margin segment. The modern passive margin data were not used ...

This item contains linework that represents fault rupture and ground deformation features interpreted from field-based maps and observations, as well as airborne imagery, lidar, and geodetic imagery products. Provisional maps of fault rupture and ground deformation are composed of a “mashup” of linework from these various sources, obtained and compiled as of December, 2019. If more than one linework representation exists for a segment of the fault rupture, linework showing the most rupture detail or best location accuracy, based on the judgment of the compiler, is preserved. On provisional maps, less than 25% of the linework is derived from high-resolution optical imagery and detailed field mapping. Because line segments from the various sources vary in location accuracy and precision based on the source equipment or imagery, mismatches can occur at the boundaries between linework from different sources. No corrections are made for these mismatches in the provisional maps. Fin ...

This shapefile contains polygons that describe tectonic regions in Afghanistan and adjacent areas.

In 2002 and 2003, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC), in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), conducted three exploration cruises (USGS Cruise 02051, NOAA RB0208, September 24 to 30, 2002; USGS Cruise 03008, NOAA RB0303, February 18 to March 7, 2003 and USGS Cruise 03032, NOAA RB0305, August 28 to September 4, 2003). These cruises mapped for the first time the morphology of this entire tectonic plate boundary stretching from the Dominican Republic in the west to the Lesser Antilles in the east, a distance of approximately 700 kilometers (430 miles). Observations from these three exploration cruises, coupled with computer modeling and published Global Positioning System (GPS) results and earthquake focal mechanisms have provided new information that is changing the evaluation of the seismic and tsunami hazard from this plate boundary. The observations collected during these cruises also contributed to the basic understanding of the mechanisms that govern plate tectonics, in this case, the creation of the island of Puerto Rico and the deep trench north of it. Results of the sea floor mapping have been an important component of the study of tsunami and earthquake hazards to the northeastern Caribbean and the U.S. Atlantic coast off the United States. For additional information on the cruises see: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2002-051-FA http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2002-051-FA http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2002-051-FA

In 2002 and 2003, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC), in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), conducted three exploration cruises (USGS Cruise 02051, NOAA RB0208, September 24 to 30, 2002; USGS Cruise 03008, NOAA RB0303, February 18 to March 7, 2003 and USGS Cruise 03032, NOAA RB0305, August 28 to September 4, 2003). These cruises mapped for the first time the morphology of this entire tectonic plate boundary stretching from the Dominican Republic in the west to the Lesser Antilles in the east, a distance of approximately 700 kilometers (430 miles). Observations from these three exploration cruises, coupled with computer modeling and published Global Positioning System (GPS) results and earthquake focal mechanisms have provided new information that is changing the evaluation of the seismic and tsunami hazard from this plate boundary. The observations collected during these cruises also contributed to the basic understanding of the mechanisms that govern plate tectonics, in this case, the creation of the island of Puerto Rico and the deep trench north of it. Results of the sea floor mapping have been an important component of the study of tsunami and earthquake hazards to the northeastern Caribbean and the U.S. Atlantic coast off the United States. For additional information on the cruises see: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2002-051-FA http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2002-051-FA http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2002-051-FA

In 2002 and 2003, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC), in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), conducted three exploration cruises (USGS Cruise 02051, NOAA RB0208, September 24 to 30, 2002; USGS Cruise 03008, NOAA RB0303, February 18 to March 7, 2003 and USGS Cruise 03032, NOAA RB0305, August 28 to September 4, 2003). These cruises mapped for the first time the morphology of this entire tectonic plate boundary stretching from the Dominican Republic in the west to the Lesser Antilles in the east, a distance of approximately 700 kilometers (430 miles). Observations from these three exploration cruises, coupled with computer modeling and published Global Positioning System (GPS) results and earthquake focal mechanisms have provided new information that is changing the evaluation of the seismic and tsunami hazard from this plate boundary. The observations collected during these cruises also contributed to the basic understanding of the mechanisms that govern plate tectonics, in this case, the creation of the island of Puerto Rico and the deep trench north of it. Results of the sea floor mapping have been an important component of the study of tsunami and earthquake hazards to the northeastern Caribbean and the U.S. Atlantic coast off the United States. For additional information on the cruises see: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2002-051-FA http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2002-051-FA http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2002-051-FA

In 2002 and 2003, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC), in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), conducted three exploration cruises (USGS Cruise 02051, NOAA RB0208, September 24 to 30, 2002; USGS Cruise 03008, NOAA RB0303, February 18 to March 7, 2003 and USGS Cruise 03032, NOAA RB0305, August 28 to September 4, 2003). These cruises mapped for the first time the morphology of this entire tectonic plate boundary stretching from the Dominican Republic in the west to the Lesser Antilles in the east, a distance of approximately 700 kilometers (430 miles). Observations from these three exploration cruises, coupled with computer modeling and published Global Positioning System (GPS) results and earthquake focal mechanisms have provided new information that is changing the evaluation of the seismic and tsunami hazard from this plate boundary. The observations collected during these cruises also contributed to the basic understanding of the mechanisms that govern plate tectonics, in this case, the creation of the island of Puerto Rico and the deep trench north of it. Results of the sea floor mapping have been an important component of the study of tsunami and earthquake hazards to the northeastern Caribbean and the U.S. Atlantic coast off the United States. For additional information on the cruises see: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2002-051-FA http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2002-051-FA http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2002-051-FA

This coverage includes lines that describe faults and tectonic contacts of the Bangladesh.

This project aims to understand how the error in mapped fault location and the residual between the modeled and observed coseismic displacements vary with tectonic landform and the surficial lithologic age. We focus on four historical earthquakes: the M6.9 Borah Peak, 2014 M6.0 Napa, 2016 M7.0 Kumamoto, and 2016 M7.8 Kaikoura earthquakes.

The GIS shape file contains information about the tectonic landform, the surficial landscape age, the observed and modelled coseismic displacement, fault location error, and the confidence ranking of the mapped fault trace. Each entry corresponds to a location where a displacement measurement was made following the earthquake of focus. Additional detail is given in the readme.

The entries in the GIS file are collected from the following references:

Chiou, B., Chen, R., Thomas, K., Milliner, C. W. D., Dawson, T., & Petersen, M. D. (2022). Surface Fault Displacement Models for Strike-Slip Faults. Natural Hazards Risk and Resiliency Research Center B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences University of California, Los Angeles, Report GIRS‐2022‐07, 186. https://doi.org/10.34948/N3RG6X

Crone, A. J., Machette, M. N., Bonilla, M., Lienkaemper, J. J., Pierce, K., Scott, W., & Bucknam, R. (1987). Surface faulting accompanying the Borah Peak earthquake and segmentation of the lost river fault, central Idaho. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 77.

Graymer, R. W., Brabb, E., Jones, D. L., Barnes, J., Nicholson, R. S., & Stamski, R. E. (2007). Geologic Map and Map Database of Eastern Sonoma and Western Napa Counties, California (No. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 2956). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.3133/sim2956

Heron, D. W. (2018). Geological Map of New Zealand 1:250 000. GNS Science Geological Map 1 (2nd ed.) Lower Hutt, New Zealand. GNS New Zealand. Retrieved from https://www.gns.cri.nz/data-and-resources/geological-map-of-new-zealand/

Hoshizumi, H., Ozaki, M., Miyazaki, K., Matsuura, H., Toshimitsu, S., Uto, K., et al. (2004). Geological Map of Japan 1:200,000: Kumamoto. Geological Survey of Japan. Retrieved from https://www.gsj.jp/Map/EN/geology2-6.html#Kumamoto

Janecke, S. U., & Wilson, E. (1992). Geologic map of the Borah Peak, Burnt Creek, Elkhorn Creek, and Leatherman Peak 7.5’ quadrangles, Custer County, Idaho, Scale 1:24,000. Idaho Geological Survey Technical Report 92-5. Retrieved from https://www.idahogeology.org/product/T-92-5

Kuehn, Nicolas, Kottke, A., Madugo, C., Sarmiento, A., & Bozorgnia, Y. (2022). Report GIRS 2022-06: UCLA–PG&E Fault Displacement Model. https://doi.org/10.34948/N3X59H

Lewis, R. S., Link, P., Stanford, L. R., & Long, S. P. (2012). Geologic Map of Idaho. Moscow, Boise, Pocatello: Idaho Geologic Survey. Retrieved from https://www.idahogeology.org/maps-pubs-data/state-geologic-map

Ponti, D. J., Blair, J. L., & Rosa, C. M. (2019). Digital Datasets Documenting Fault Rupture and Ground Deformation Features Produced by the Mw 6.0 South Napa Earthquake of August 24, 2014 [Data set]. U.S. Geological Survey. https://doi.org/10.5066/F7P26W84

Sarmiento, A., Madugo, D., Bozorgnia, Y., Shen, A., Mazzoni, S., Lavrentiadis, G., et al. (2021). Fault Displacement Hazard Initiative Database. Report No. GIRS-2021-08, Revision 3.3 Dated 29 May 2024. Los Angeles, CA: The B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at UCLA Engineering. https://doi.org/10.34948/N36P48

Scott, C., Adam, R., Arrowsmith, R., Madugo, C., Powell, J., Ford, J., et al. (2023). Evaluating how well active fault mapping predicts earthquake surface-rupture locations. Geosphere, 19(4), 1128–1156. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02611.1

Scott, C. P., Arrowsmith, J. R., Nissen, E., Lajoie, L., Maruyama, T., & Chiba, T. (2018). The M 7 2016 Kumamoto, Japan, Earthquake: 3-D Deformation Along the Fault and Within the Damage Zone Constrained From Differential Lidar Topography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123, 6138–6155. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB015581

Vincent, K. R. (1995). Implications for models of fault behavior from earthquake surface displacement along adjacent segments of the Lost River fault, Idaho: University of Arizona.

Wagner, D., & Gutierrez, C. (2017). Preliminary Geologic Map of the Napa and Bodega Bay 30’ x 60’ Quadrangles, California. California Department of Conservation. Retrieved from https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Prodesc/proddesc_105819.htm

Zinke, R., Hollingsworth, J., Dolan, J. F., & Van Dissen, R. (2019). Three‐Dimensional Surface Deformation in the 2016 M _W 7.8 Kaikōura, New Zealand, Earthquake From Optical Image Correlation: Implications for Strain Localization and Long‐Term Evolution of the Pacific‐Australian Plate Boundary. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20(3), 1609–1628. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC007951

The purpose is to disseminate a digital version of a regional isopach map showing the thickness of the postglacial sediments in Long Island Sound.

This GIS layer contains an interpretive layer represented by polygons of the thickness of postglacial sediments in Long Island Sound.

The Generalized Geology of the World is a highly simplified digital geological data set composed of geographically referenced rock unit patchworks and fault lines which can be combined with tables of descriptive data. These attribute tables contain broadly classified age, main rock type, and name information. This combination of digital data can be used to produce a thematic display. Further information on this dataset can be obtained from http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu

Formation tops were picked in 16,200 wells from the Williston Basin of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana. Each formation top was picked using borehole geophysical log data. Many wells in the Williston Basin do not penetrate the entire stratigraphic section and in many other cases the shallow intervals were not logged. In total, there are 141,096 individual picks composing 29 sets of formation tops. Each top set represents a recognizable stratigraphic marker that can be correlated from well to well. The formation tops serve as foundational observations for building the stratigraphic and structural framework of the 3D petroleum systems model. How each formation top assigns to age, lithostratigraphic unit, and modeled horizon is outlined in the "Williston_Basin_Data_Release_Overview.csv" data table in the parent directory of this data release. This is a child item of a larger data release titled "Data release for the 3D petroleum systems model of the Williston Basin, USA".

The Colorado Plateau structural province features long monoclinal flexures between uplifts and basins that are the major lines of deformation within and marginal to the Plateau. These folds are named, well-known, and have been described as part of several previous tectonic syntheses of the Colorado Plateau (Kelley, 1955; Davis, 1978; 1999). However, no digital data have ever been created that locate these folds in digital map space. This digital dataset compiles mapped locations of monoclinal folds from several geologic maps from the Colorado Plateau, most released only in “paper”, non-vector format. Fold names and their general map trace were guided by regional-scale maps that synthesize the tectonic elements of the Colorado Plateau, but specific location of the fold axes relied on detailed geologic maps, augmented by inspection of imagery and digital elevation models. Structural Uplifts on the Colorado Plateau are doubly plunging, asymmetric, elliptical shaped anticlinal features often bounded on one side by a monoclinal fold. Locations and shapes of the major structural uplifts on the Colorado Plateau were modified from regional tectonic maps (Kelley, 1955; Davis, 1978; 1999) and are included with the digital dataset primarily for reference and context. The dataset includes a geographic information system geodatabase that contains a polyline feature class of the monocline fold axes and a polygon feature class showing the general location of structural uplifts. Vector data are attributed according to the USGS National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program’s GeMS digital geologic map schema; monoclines are attributed within a GeologicLines feature class and uplifts are attributed within an OverlayPolys feature class. The spatial data are accompanied by non-spatial tables that describe the sources of geologic information, a glossary of terms, and a Data Dictionary that duplicates the Entity and Attribute information contained in the metadata file. To maximize usability, spatial data are also distributed as shapefiles and tabular data are distributed as ascii text files in comma separated values (CSV) format.

In 2002 and 2003, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC), in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), conducted three exploration cruises (USGS Cruise 02051, NOAA RB0208, September 24 to 30, 2002; USGS Cruise 03008, NOAA RB0303, February 18 to March 7, 2003 and USGS Cruise 03032, NOAA RB0305, August 28 to September 4, 2003). These cruises mapped for the first time the morphology of this entire tectonic plate boundary stretching from the Dominican Republic in the west to the Lesser Antilles in the east, a distance of approximately 700 kilometers (430 miles). Observations from these three exploration cruises, coupled with computer modeling and published Global Positioning System (GPS) results and earthquake focal mechanisms have provided new information that is changing the evaluation of the seismic and tsunami hazard from this plate boundary. The observations collected during these cruises also contributed to the basic understanding of the mechanisms that govern plate tectonics, in this case, the creation of the island of Puerto Rico and the deep trench north of it. Results of the sea floor mapping have been an important component of the study of tsunami and earthquake hazards to the northeastern Caribbean and the U.S. Atlantic coast off the United States. For additional information on the cruises see: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2002-051-FA http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2002-051-FA http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2002-051-FA

This describes 28 thickness point shapefiles that represent true vertical thickness (TVT) values by calculating the difference between stratigraphically adjacent formation tops picked on borehole geophysical logs. In wells where adjacent formation tops are missing, no TVT value is calculated. The TVT values are a measure of vertical thickness and do not account for the structural dip of units encountered in the wellbore. In total, the dataset contains 115,789 TVT values calculated in 16,200 wells from the Williston Basin of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana. This is a child item of a larger data release titled "Data release for the 3D petroleum systems model of the Williston Basin, USA".

This Data Release accompanies the publication "State of stress in areas of active unconventional oil and gas development in North America" by J.-E. Lund Snee (now J.-E. Lundstern) and M.D. Zoback (2022) in the AAPG Bulletin. This dataset provides maximum horizontal stress (SHmax) orientation and relative stress magnitude (faulting regime) information that comprise a new-generation crustal stress map for North America. Relative stress magnitudes are presented using the Aϕ (A_phi) parameter, a single scalar that represents the ratio of the three principal stress magnitudes. Data were collected between 2015 and 2022. Data points for SHmax orientations, relative stress magnitudes, and the earthquake focal mechanisms used to determine some of the stress information are included in tabular format. A raster file is included that shows Aϕ as interpolated across the continent from the included relative stress magnitude data points.

These data tables describe observations made on borehole geophysical logs from 16,200 wells in the Williston Basin. It includes detailed surface hole locations, true vertical depths of formation tops, and true vertical thickness values between formation tops. The data contained in the “Williston_Basin_well_data.csv” table was used in generating the formation top shapefiles (“Formation top shapefile points for the 3D petroleum systems model of the Williston Basin, USA” child item) and the true vertical thickness shapefiles (“True vertical thickness shapefile points for the 3D petroleum systems model of the Williston Basin, USA” child item). A data glossary that describes the columns in the “Williston_Basin_well_data.csv” table is also included. This is a child item of a larger data release titled "Data release for the 3D petroleum systems model of the Williston Basin, USA".