Shapefiles of faults for the United States, Canada, and Australia

Description

Data presented here include a shapefile that combines fault data for the United States and Canada (Chorlton, 2007; Reed and others, 2005; Styron and Pagani, 2020) and a shapefile of faults for Australia (Chorlton, 2007; Raymond and others, 2012; Styron and Pagani, 2020). These two shapefiles were used as an evidential layer to evaluate the mineral prospectivity for sediment-hosted Pb-Zn deposits (Lawley and others, 2022). References Chorlton, L.B., 2007, Generalized geology of the world: Bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database: Geological Survey of Canada Open File 5529, https://doi.org/10.4095/223767. Lawley, C.J.M., McCafferty, A.E., Graham, G.E., Huston, D.L., Kelley, K.D., Czarnota, K., Paradis, S., Peter, J.M., Hayward, N., Barlow, M., Emsbo, P., Coyan, J., San Juan, C.A., and Gadd, M.G., 2022, Data-driven prospectivity modelling of sediment-hosted Zn-Pb mineral systems and their critical raw materials: Ore Geology Reviews, v. 141, no. 104635, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2021.104635. Raymond, O.L., Liu, S., Gallagher, R., Zhang, W., and Highet, L.M., 2012, Surface Geology of Australia 1:1 million scale dataset 2012 edition: Geoscience Australia, http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/74619. Reed, J.C., Jr., Wheeler, J.O., Tucholke, B.E., Stettner, W.R., and Soller, D.R., 2005, Decade of North American Geology Geologic Map of North America - Perspectives and explanation: Geological Society of America, v. 1, https://doi.org/10.1130/DNAG-CSMS-v1. Styron, R., and Pagani, M., 2020, The GEM global active faults database: Earthquake Spectra, v. 36, p. 160-180, https://doi.org/10.1177/8755293020944182.

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Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P970GDD5
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.61e06729d34e8911d9fe9da9.xml

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  • geoscience-australia
  • zinc
  • metallic-mineral-resources
  • geologic-structures
  • geology-geophysics-and-geochemistry-science-center
  • canada
  • exploring-for-the-future-program
  • geological-survey-of-canada
  • maps-and-atlases
  • faults
  • lead
  • u-s-geological-survey
  • critical-minerals-mapping-initiative
  • geology
  • gsc
  • united-states
  • mineral-resources
  • usgs-61e06729d34e8911d9fe9da9
  • surface-faults
  • geoscientificinformation
  • mineral-resources-program
  • targeted-geoscience-initiative
  • critical-minerals
  • cmmi
  • geologic-faults
  • australia
  • gggsc
  • mrp
  • usgs
  • ga
  • tgi

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