All these faults lie in the area of the Frontal Wichita fault system, which is located between the Anadarko Basin to the north and the Amarillo-Wichita uplift to the south and separates the two. The fault system, which also includes the Meers fault as its southern margin, was active during the Mississippian to Permian, generating a total offset of about . The development of the Meers fault may have been influenced by the South Oklahoma aulacogen. Both the Wichita Mountains thrust and possibly a second fault are linked with the Meers fault, which is the only fault in the Wichita fault system with Holocene activity.