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Structural Analysis and brittle Deformation – Groundwater Relationships of the Rough Creek Fault Zone (RCFZ), Western Kentucky, USA

Alten, John Michael
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1116336135

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2005, Master of Science, Miami University, Geology and Environmental Earth Science.
The Rough Creek Fault Zone is an east-west trending system of braided faults which penetrate Precambrian basement rocks in western Kentucky, and is one of many deformed zones within the Illinois Basin. The RCFZ was extensionally faulted in the late Precambrian during continental rifting. Compressional fault reactivation during the Paleozoic produced reverse and oblique-slip offset in the the overlying strata along pre-existing facults, and was followed by post-Paleozoic extension. Our report reveals evidence of fault reactivation, suggests models that may have produced structural relationships observed in outcrop, and establishes mechanical and temporal relationships of faults and fractures in the RCFZ. As a first approximation to the issue of groundwater-structure relationships, we compared structural data with published hydrogeologic information, the results of which suggest that subsurface permeability is unpredictable within the main RCFZ, and that permeability decreases with distance from the main fault zone as a function of decreasing fracture density.
Yildirim Dilek (Advisor)
143 p.
Geology
Rough Creek Fault Zone; Illinois Basin; groundwater; structural analysis; fractures

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  • Alten, J. M. (2005). Structural Analysis and brittle Deformation – Groundwater Relationships of the Rough Creek Fault Zone (RCFZ), Western Kentucky, USA [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1116336135

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Alten, John. Structural Analysis and brittle Deformation – Groundwater Relationships of the Rough Creek Fault Zone (RCFZ), Western Kentucky, USA. 2005. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1116336135.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Alten, John. "Structural Analysis and brittle Deformation – Groundwater Relationships of the Rough Creek Fault Zone (RCFZ), Western Kentucky, USA." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1116336135

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