Big Creek Fault

Part of the Fluorspar Area Fault Complex

Location

T12 and 13S, R8E, Hardin County (pl. 2)

References

S. Weller et al. 1920, J. Weller et al. 1952, Baxter and Desborough 1965

Description

The Big Creek Fault is mapped as trending N25°E from the Ohio River just west of Rosiclare to Section 16, T12S, R8E, where it merges with other faults. The Big Creek Fault probably is not a single break, but a part of a complex zone of fractures forming the southeast side of the Rock Creek Graben. The net displacement is as much as 350 feet (105 m) down to the northwest.

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