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Meers fault, northwestern section (Class A) No. 1031a
Last Review Date: 1994-03-03
| County(s) and State(s) |
COMANCHE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA KIOWA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA |
| Physiographic province(s) |
CENTRAL LOWLAND |
| Reliability of location |
Poor Compiled at 1:100,000 scale. |
| Length (km) | This section is 18 km of a total fault length of 54 km. |
| Average strike | N67°W (for section) |
| Sense of movement | Left lateral |
| Dip | 80° NE–60° SW |
| Historic earthquake | |
| Most recent prehistoric deformation | undifferentiated Quaternary (<1.6 Ma) |
| Slip-rate category | Less than 0.2 mm/yr |
| References |
Cetin, H., 1990, The northwest continuation of the Meers fault and its tectonic activity in southwestern Oklahoma: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 22, p. 3. Cetin, H., 1992, The northwest extension of the Meers fault in southwestern Oklahoma, in Sharma, S., ed., Proceedings of the 28th symposium on engineering geology and geotechnical engineering:, 28th Symposium on Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering, Boise, Idaho, April 1-3, 1992, Proceedings, p. 43-58. Crone, A.J., and Wheeler, R.L., 2000, Data for Quaternary faults, liquefaction features, and possible tectonic features in the Central and Eastern United States, east of the Rocky Mountain front: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-260, 332 p. Gilbert, M.C., 1983, The Meers fault—Unusual aspects and possible tectonic consequences: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 18, p. 1. Gilbert, M.C., 1983, The Meers fault of southwestern Oklahoma—Evidence for possible strong Quaternary seismicity in the midcontinent [abs.]: Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 64, p. 313. Harlton, B.H., 1951, Faults in sedimentary part of Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma: Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, v. 35, p. 988-999. Harlton, B.H., 1963, Frontal Wichita fault system of southwestern Oklahoma: Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, v. 47, p. 1552-1580. Harlton, B.H., 1972, Faulted fold belts of southern Anadarko basin adjacent to Frontal Wichitas: Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, v. 56, p. 1544-1551. Hornsby, K.T., and Streig, A.R., 2016, Constraining the rupture length and timing of the northwest extension of the Meers fault, Oklahoma using high resolution topographic and age data: American Geophysical Union, Fall General Assembly 2016, abstract #EP11B-0994, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016AGUFMEP11B0994H. Jones-Cecil, M., 1995, Total-field aeromagnetic and derivative maps of the Lawton area, southwestern Oklahoma: U.S. Geological Survey Geophysical Investigations Series Map GP-998-A, 2 sheets, scale 1:100,000. Jones-Cecil, M., and Crone, A.J., 1989, Constraints on the Anadarko basin-Wichita uplift boundary interpreted from aeromagnetic data, in Johnson, K.S., ed., Anadarko basin symposium, 1988: Oklahoma Geological Survey Circular 90, p. 228-232. Ramelli, A.R., and Slemmons, D.B., 1990, Implications of the Meers fault on seismic potential in the Central United States, in Krinitzsky, E.L., and Slemmons, D.B., eds., Neotectonics in earthquake evaluation: Geological Society of America Reviews in Engineering Geology, v. 8, p. 59-75. Ramelli, A.R., Slemmons, D.B., and Brocoum, S.J., 1987, The Meers fault—Tectonic activity in southwestern Oklahoma: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission NUREG/CR-4852, 25 p. Swan, F.H., Wesling, J.R., Hanson, K.A., Kelson, K.I., and Perman, R.C., 1993, Draft report—Investigation of the Quaternary structural and tectonic character of the Meers fault (southwestern Oklahoma): Technical report to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., under Contract NRC-04-87-007, July 1993, 104 p., 3 pls. |