GIS shape files for Utah's Quaternary volcanic flows

The Lihir Island orebody is located at an elevation just above sea level within the Quaternary-age Luise Caldera of Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea. The caldera is breached by the sea on its northeast side. Hot fluids rising from a still-active geothermal system are believed to have deposited gold in brecciated rocks of the caldera. The ore body is to be mined in a 2 x 1.5.km open pit that ultimately will reach a depth of about 220 m below sea level. Within the caldera, here is intense surface geothermal activity in the form of teaming ground, fumaroles, boiling springs and gas seeps. At the floor of the proposed mine, rock temperatures are as high as 170°C and immediately adjacent to the proposed western margin of the mine, temperatures reach 240°C at a depth of about 300 m.

This document-like information object is the content schema for describing active fault features. Note that fault features require a geometry field that contains the geographic location of the fault trace (typically named 'shape' in ESRI feature classes). The actual template for deploying services must be a GIS feature class, thus cannot be implemented as an Excel spreadsheet. Design is focused on faults portrayed as line segments. The content model is based on the GeoSciML thematic view for ShearDisplacementStructure (see https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/wiki/bin/view/CGIModel/GeoSciMLThematicViewModel), extended with some convenience properties specific to young fault structures. Active in this context denotes that there is compelling evidence of fault displacement during the Quaternary. The version 1.2 content model has been reviewed by NGDS project technical teams and the normative version is now at : http://www.geothermaldata.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=s81mQBojfLo%3d&tabid=444&mid=1271