1. Regional Geology

The southwestern foothills belt is a fold-thrust fault comprised by several imbricate thrust faults. The thrust faults starting from east to west are the Tachienshan Fault, Chiuchiungkeng fault, and the Chiayi fault. The Chiuchiungkeng fault stretches between the Kukeng fault and the Chuchi fault. The hanging wall of the fault is the mudstone and laminated sand-shale of the Cholan Formations; the foot wall is mainly consisted of the thick layer sandstone Liushuang Formation. It was discovered in the field that the Cholan Formation mudstone thrusts above the late Pleistocene-Holocene conglomerate layer.
　

The landforms of the two sides of the Chiuchiungkeng fault are highly different: the hanging wall is a steeper foothill which slope is between 15-35º. The foot wall has an upheaval–a tableland of a slope under 10º. Judging from the river pattern, the rivers in the coastal plain are meandering rivers; the rivers in the upheaved tableland and hills (the hanging wall of the Chiuchiungkeng fault) belongs to the incised meanders and braided rivers. The analysis of the slope of the riverbed also shows that there are significant slope differences between the two sides of the fault. The river slope is 140 meter per kilometer in the hanging wall; the river slope of the foot wall is less than 10 meters per kilometer. It shows that the evident differences between the two sides are resulted from the continual upheaval of the hanging wall of the Chiuchiungkeng fault.
　

2. Fault Character

The Kukeng trench is situated in the linear scarp on the front edge of the foothills, and the trenching strike is vertical to the linear scarp. (Figure 1, 2) A small terrace is located on the east of the linear scarp. The trench is trenching in the form to two steps, 17 meters in length, 8 meters in width, and 4 meters in depth. (Figure 3,4) From the sediment formation revel on the trench profile, it shows that the sediment environment belongs to the alluvial fan of the front edge of the foothills. The sediment is thick gravel bed and occasionally has some thin lenticular sand beds. The trench profile shows no signs of the fault disturbed. Thus we conjectured that the fault still be located to the east of the trench.
　

This research has two core-boring in the Kukeng site. The lithologic characters of the cores are both thick gravel bed, with a gray sand-mud bed. The results indicate that there are no offsets within the gray sand-mud bed. (Figure 5) The mudstone bed of the Cholan formation has outcropped in the eastern 25 meters of the Kukeng borehole 2. The Kukeng borehole 2 is 30 meters in depth, and has yet not bored to the bedrock. We perceived that the fault should be located to the east of the Kukeng borehole 2. (Figure 5)

Figure 1, The Kukeng site is located on the intersection of the hills and the plains on the east

to Kukeng. (TWD 67)

Figure 2, The Kukeng trench are mainly consisted of conglomerate sediments.

Figure 3, The profile of the south wall.

Figure 4, The profile of the north wall.

Figure 5, The profile of the Kukeng site core-boring.