Archived report (descriptions no longer maintained)
Lost River fault, Pass Creek section (Class A) No. 601e
Last Review Date: 2010-11-09
Compiled in cooperation with the Idaho Geological Survey
| County(s) and State(s) |
BUTTE COUNTY, IDAHO CUSTER COUNTY, IDAHO |
| Physiographic province(s) |
NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS |
| Reliability of location |
Poor Compiled at 1:24,000 scale. |
| Length (km) | This section is 26 km of a total fault length of 127 km. |
| Average strike | N45°W (for section) |
| Sense of movement | Normal |
| Dip Direction | SW |
| Historic earthquake | |
| Most recent prehistoric deformation | late Quaternary (<130 ka) |
| Slip-rate category | Less than 0.2 mm/yr |
| References |
Anderson, A.L., 1934, A preliminary report on recent block faulting in Idaho: Northwest Science, v. 8, p. 17-28. Baldwin, E.M., 1951, Faulting in the Lost River Range area of Idaho: American Journal of Science, v. 249, p. 884-902. Crone, A.J., and Haller, K.M., 1991, Segmentation and the coseismic behavior of Basin and Range normal faults—Examples from east-central Idaho and southwestern Montana, in Hancock, P.L., Yeats, R.S., and Sanderson, D.J., eds., Characteristics of active faults: Journal of Structural Geology, v. 13, p. 151-164. Crone, A.J., Machette, M.N., Bonilla, M.G., Lienkaemper, J.J., Pierce, K.L., Scott, W.E., and Bucknam, R.C., 1985, Characteristics of surface faulting accompanying the Borah Peak earthquake, central Idaho, in Stein, R.S., and Bucknam, R.C., eds., Proceedings of workshop XXVIII on the Borah Peak, Idaho, earthquake: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 85-290, v. A, p. 43-58. Crone, A.J., Machette, M.N., Bonilla, M.G., Lienkaemper, J.J., Pierce, K.L., Scott, W.E., and Bucknam, R.C., 1987, Surface faulting accompanying the Borah Peak earthquake and segmentation of the Lost River fault, central Idaho: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 77, p. 739-770. Densmore, A.L., Dawers, N.H., Gupta, S., and Guidon, R., 2005, What sets topographic relief in extensional footwalls?: Geology, v. 33, no. 6, p. 453-456. Doser, D.I., and Smith, R.B., 1985, Source parameters of the 28 October 1983 Borah Peak, Idaho, earthquake from body wave analysis: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 75, p. 1041-1051. Jackson, S.M., 1994, Seismic evidence of conjugate normal faulting—The 1984 Devil Canyon earthquake sequence near Challis, Idaho: Boise, Idaho, Boise State University, unpublished M.S. thesis, 156 p. Janecke, S.U., 1993, Structures in segment boundary zones of the Lost River and Lemhi faults, east central Idaho: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 98, no. B9, p. 16,223-16,238. Kuntz, M.A., Skipp, B., Scott, W.E., and Page, W.R., compilers, 1984, Preliminary geologic map of the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory and adjoining areas, Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-281, 23 p., 1 pl., scale 1:100,000. Olig, S.S., Gorton, A.E., Bott, J.D., Wong, I.G., Knuepfer, P.L.K., Forman, S.L., Smith, R.P., and Simpson, D., 1995, Paleoseismic investigation of the southern Lost River fault zone, Idaho: Technical report to Lockheed Idaho Technologies Company, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho, under Contract C93-134020, June 1995, 81 p., 5 pls. Olig, S.S., Gorton, A.E., Smith, R.P., and Forman, S.L., 1997, Additional geologic investigations of the southern Lost River fault and northern Arco rift zone, Idaho: Technical report prepared for Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Company, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, 89 p. Payne, S.J., McCaffrey, R., and King, R.W., 2008, Strain rates and contemporary deformation in the Snake River Plain and surrounding Basin and Range from GPS and seismicity: Geology, v. 36, no. 8, p. 647-650. Puskas, C.M., and Smith, R.B., 2009, Intraplate deformation and microplate tectonics of the Yellowstone hot spot and surrounding western US interior: Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, v. 114, B04410, doi:10.1029/2008JB005940. Scott, W.E., Pierce, K.L., and Hait, M.H., Jr., 1985, Quaternary tectonic setting of the 1983 Borah Peak earthquake, central Idaho: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 75, p. 1053–1066. Skipp, B., and Hait, M.H., Jr., 1977, Allochthons along the northeast margin of the Snake River Plain, Idaho, in Heisey, E.L., Norwood, E.R., Wach, P.H., and Hale, L.A., eds., Rocky Mountain thrust belt geology and resources: Wyoming Geological Association, 29th Annual Field Conference, Teton Village, Wyoming, Guidebook, p. 499-515. Stickney, M.C., and Bartholomew, M.J., 1987, Seismicity and late Quaternary faulting of the northern Basin and Range province, Montana and Idaho: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 77, p. 1602-1625. Witkind, I.J., 1975, Preliminary map showing known and suspected active faults in Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 75-278, 71 p. pamphlet, 1 sheet, scale 1:500,000. |