Eastern marginal fault zone of Taihang Mountain is a controlling fault in western marginal of oft-com:office:smarttags" />North China Basin, as it has a great meaning to oil-gas reservoir, distribution of earthquake and mineralization since Mesozoic. On basis of detailed research of geometry, kinematics, XRD of fault gouge and K-Ar isotope chronology, the authors confirmed that the fault zone was a normal and hinge fault, which is composed of a series of normal faults trending NNE. In the longitudinal, it presents left-lateral. The K-Ar dating of syntectonic illite showed that the fault deformed intensely during the time of (113.42±2.31) Ma. Reactivated during Cenozoic, the fault has formed a series of rift basins.oft-com:office:office" />