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Quaternary fault mapping of the Zapata and Blanca sections of the Sangre de Cristo fault zone from high resolution 3DEP topography

This data release contains a dataset that depicts fault scarps along the Zapata and Blanca sections of the Sangre de Cristo fault zone located in the San Luis basin of southern Colorado. The Zapata and Blanca sections extend from the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve to the Blanca Peak massif and are differentiated by a sharp change in fault zone orientation from north-south to east-west. The fault scarps are the result of Quaternary tectonic extension causing surface rupturing earthquakes estimated to have occurred most recently 8-12 ka with probable Mw 6-7 (Ruleman and Machette, 2007). The dataset represents detailed mapping of probable fault surface rupture on high-resolution (1m/pix) topographic data from USGS 3DEP (U.S. Geological Survey, 2012; U.S. Geological Survey, 2021) mapped at 1:1400 scale. The mapping has been validated with GPS surveys at select locations along the fault zone. Primarily, mapping was conducted between September 2022 and December 2022 with subsequent updates and corrections. The data has undergone peer review but remains subject to revision as more information becomes available. The dataset is provided in shapefile KML, and geoJSON formats.

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Author(s) Madeline F Schwarz orcid, Nadine G Reitman orcid, Jessica A Jobe orcid, Samuel A Johnstone orcid
Publication Date 2024-05-23
Beginning Date of Data 2022-09-05
Ending Date of Data 2024-03-01
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P13NFGLT
Citation Schwarz, M.F., Reitman, N.G., Jobe, J.A., and Johnstone, S.A., 2024, Quaternary fault mapping of the Zapata and Blanca sections of the Sangre de Cristo fault zone from high resolution 3DEP topography: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P13NFGLT.
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