Painted Canyon, Southern San Andreas Fault

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The Painted Canyon site is located in the Mecca Hills adjacent to the Southern San Andreas Fault. The site records plate-boundary transpression in a set of folds and faults. We imaged a fold along a canyon wall in Painted Canyon. We collected this dataset to be part of an undergraduate or graduate-level structural geology remote field class exercise available here: https://opentopography.org/learn/painted_canyon. In this exercise, students measure and analyze the fold using the point cloud, CloudCompare (http://cloudcompare.org), and Stereonet (http://www.geo.cornell.edu/geology/faculty/RWA/programs/stereonet.html). The students put their measurements in terms of the kinematics of the San Andreas Fault.

opentopoID: OTDS.042020.32611.1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5069/G90G3H94
Platform: Structure from Motion / Photogrammetry
Data Format: Point Cloud
Dataset Acknowledgement: We acknowledge funding from the National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship 1625221 and the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University.
Dataset Citation: Scott, C., Carlson, G. (2020). Painted Canyon, Southern San Andreas Fault. Distributed by OpenTopography. https://doi.org/10.5069/G90G3H94. Accessed: 2025-01-15
Survey Date: 09/09/2018
Survey Area: 0.04 km2
Publication Date: 04/27/2020
Number of lidar returns: 5,580,419 pts
Point Density: 152.47 pts/m2
Coordinates System:
Horizontal: WGS 84 / UTM zone 11N [EPSG: 32611]
Vertical: WGS84 Ellipsoid (DJI GPS locations)

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    Point Cloud
  File Name Size Points Area (m2) Density  
1     painted_canyon_pc.laz     52.04 MB     5,580,419     36,601     152.47         File Metadata    
SpatialReference: 
COMPD_CS["unknown",PROJCS["WGS 84 / UTM zone 11N",GEOGCS["WGS 84",DATUM["WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563,AUTHORITY["EPSG","7030"]],TOWGS84[0,0,0,0,0,0,0],AUTHORITY["EPSG","6326"]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],AUTHORITY["EPSG","4326"]],PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",0],PARAMETER["central_meridian",-117],PARAMETER["scale_factor",0.9996],PARAMETER["false_easting",500000],PARAMETER["false_northing",0],UNIT["metre",1,AUTHORITY["EPSG","9001"]],AUTHORITY["EPSG","32611"]],VERT_CS["unknown",VERT_DATUM["unknown",2005],UNIT["metre",1.0,AUTHORITY["EPSG","9001"]],AXIS["Up",UP]]]

Lat/Lon/Elevation Boundary:
North-East (lat,lon,elev): [33.6144547, -116.0043759, 246.897]
South-West (lat,lon,elev): [33.61235156, -116.007148, 162.054]

Coordinates Boundary:
North-East (X,Y): 592358.869, 3719850.637]
South-West (X,Y): 592103.891, 3719619.874]

Classifications:
Class 0 (Created, never classified)5,580,419
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