• journal_title：Seismological Research Letters
• Contributor：Edward W. Woolery ; Ron L. Street ; Zhenming Wang ; James B. Harris ; Jonathan Mclntyre
• Publisher：Seismological Society of America
• Date：1999-
• Format：text/html
• Language：en
• Identifier：10.1785/gssrl.70.5.554
• journal_abbrev：Seismological Research Letters
• issn：0895-0695
• volume：70
• issue：5
• firstpage：554
• section：EASTERN SECTION

Approximately 14.5 km of conventional P-wave and 2.2 km of horizontally polarized shear-wave seismic-reflection data acquired in the Kentucky Bend area of the central New Madrid Seismic Zone provide evidence of extensive neotectonic near-surface structure. The style and geometry of the deformation are consistent with documented historical geomorphic features, contemporary geomorphic features, and contemporary seismicity. The data image high-angle transpressional faults that strike between N30°W and N50°W. The fault planes exhibit apparent northeast and southwest dips. The opposing high-angle planes represent secondary splay or imbricate faults that responded to torsional bending of a lower-angle master fault.