Tectonic Geomorphic Analysis of the Eastern Lowlands, Mississippi River Valley Using LiDAR

• Main Author: Noor, Samia
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Memphis Digital Commons 2019
• Subjects: Neotectonics; LiDAR; Remote Sensing; Bootheel fault; Reelfoot thrust; Sikeston bulge; Pleistocene terraces; Eastern Lowlands; Kennett; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/etd/2045; https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/context/etd/article/3153/viewcontent/6510.pdf

To identify neotectonism in and adjacent to the New Madrid seismic zones, I used Mississippi River Valley Pleistocene terraces of the Eastern Lowlands as a geomorphic marker for the evaluation of Pleistocene and Holocene deformation. The Quaternary glacial and interglacial cycles controlled drainage...