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K. Stephen Hughes

This dataset provides detailed unit descriptions of the Guanabanas road exposure of the South Lajas fault, Puerto Rico, and can be found in Table S2 and summarized in Table 1 in the related manuscript.
Categories: Data; Tags: Puerto Rico, active faulting, fault
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This dataset contains linework for a simplified Quaternary fault map of Puerto Rico, and is described in Table 4 and Figure 24 in the related manuscript. Faults are classified into three different classes based on the presence or absence of geologic evidence for Quaternary fault activity and tectonic origin, and this dataset includes faults that may have weak, equivocal, or limited evidence for Quaternary deformation or tectonic origin. See related manuscript for additional details on interpretation and use of the linework. Related manuscript: Thompson Jobe, J. A. R. Briggs, K. S. Hughes, J. Joyce, R. Gold, S. Mahan, H. Gray, L. Strickland (in review). Neotectonic mapping of Puerto Rico.
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To better understand factors potentially contributing to the occurrence of rainfall-induced landslides in Puerto Rico, we evaluated the locations of landslides there following Hurricane Maria (Hughes et al., 2019) and potential contributing factors. This data release provides results of evaluations of landslide locations compared to soil classification and land cover, which involved frequency-ratio analyses (for example, Lee and Pradhan, 2006; Lee et al., 2007; He and Beighley, 2008; Lepore et al., 2012; Chalkias et al., 2014). Soil classification data were obtained from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (2018) and land cover data were obtained from the Puerto Rico Gap Analysis...
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This dataset contains linework of neotectonic mapping from high-resolution lidar-derived topography and historical aerial images on Puerto Rico.
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This table describes summary information for Quaternary active faults in Puerto Rico, including an estimated age of fault activity and categorical slip rate bins, and can be found in Table 4 of the related manuscript.
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