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Brief Report for Crooked Creek fault (Class B) No. 1032
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citation for this record: Crone, A.J., compiler, 1998, Fault number 1032, Crooked Creek fault, in Quaternary fault and fold database of the United States: U.S. Geological Survey website, http://earthquakes.usgs.gov/regional/qfaults, accessed 11/24/2009 06:24 AM.
| Synopsis | This feature is classified as a Class B feature because of the uncertainty concerning the cause of the subsurface deformation. As discussed below, it is uncertain if the stratigraphic offset related to the Crooked Creek fault is solely the result of dissolution of soluble subsurface strata or is related to genuine, deep-seated tectonic movements (Frye and Hibbard, 1941 #2810). The fault is defined largely on the basis of drill-hole data (Izett and Honey, 1995 #2812) and anomalous geomorphic features above the subsurface structure. No exposures of the fault are known. Deformation associated with the feature has resulted in a structural depression in the subsurface and an elongate topographic trough (Smith, 1940 #2813). |
| County(s) and State(s) | FORD COUNTY COUNTY, KANSAS MEADE COUNTY COUNTY, KANSAS |
| AMS sheet(s) | Dodge City |
| Physiographic province(s) | GREAT PLAINS |
| Length (km) | 44 km. |
| Average strike | |
| Sense of movement | No data |
| Dip Direction | Unknown |
| Historic earthquake | |
| Most recent prehistoric deformation | |
| Slip-rate category | Insufficient data |
| Date and Compiler(s) | 1998 Anthony J. Crone, U.S. Geological Survey |
