Fault Traces and Slip Hazard Assessment for the Midland Basin, West Texas

West Texas's Midland Basin contains Geographic Information System shapefiles for subsurface fault traces. The data supports a manuscript submitted to AAPG Bulletin in September 2023 and accepted in January 2024. Author Elizabeth Horne published the repository, which includes fault traces segmented for analysis and regional framework faults.

Use Cases

• Modeling subsurface fault geometry based on interpreted hanging wall intersection lines.
• Assessing fault slip potential (FSP) based on segmented fault trace attributes.
• Calculating proximity to seismic events based on distance-to-earthquake attributes.
• Creating regional structural framework maps based on simplified fault traces.

Strengths

• Data is directly linked to a peer-reviewed manuscript submitted to AAPG Bulletin.
• Includes multiple GIS layers: detailed fault traces, 1 km segmented traces with attributes, and regional framework faults.
• Fault traces are versioned (V1), indicating a managed release.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Texas Data Repository Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Fault traces interpreted by the authors following methods described in the manuscript.

Time Range

Data supports a study submitted in 2023 and accepted in 2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2024-03 18 11:55:18; freshness should be verified

Geography

Midland Basin, West Texas, USA