FaultBufferTool
Plugin ID: 3863
Create buffers for fault traces based on confidence attributes and ranking criteria.
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This GIS-based plugin tool is designed to support plotting and justifying a well-informed uncertainty on the locations of mapped tectonic faults. This tool, along with its documentation, will address several needs of the fault mapping community, as identified through interviews with geologists working in industry, government agencies, and academia:
1.A deeper understanding of fault location uncertainty and its importance, targeted to an audience of geologists, geotechnical engineers, and civil engineers.
2.A user-friendly approach to iteratively and efficiently refine the uncertainty placed on mapped fault locations, based on peer-reviewed publications as well as geologic judgment informed by the quality of available data, surface processes, and other relevant factors.
3.A citable publication, alongside Petersen et al. (2011) and Scott et al. (2023), to justify choices made in fault uncertainty for scientific peer-reviewed publications and reports.
This plugin tool supports plotting fault location based on the following fault attributes:
1.Confidence in the mapped fault: strong, distinct, weak, or uncertain
2.Primary or secondary fault ranking
3.Simple or complex fault ranking
4.Fault type: strike-slip faults have symmetric buffers around the fault trace, while normal and reverse faults have asymmetric buffers
Mappers can alternatively input their own uncertainty values based on their judgment and the local geologic characteristics.
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