Abstract:A series of thrust structures developed in the Kuqa depression during the Cenozoic are clearly shown on the remote sensing images. A mosaic image consisting of four scenes of TM data was analyzed and interpreted for the Kuqa foreland basin. The distributions of folds and faults are analyzed using remote sensing data. The late Cenozoic anticlines, distributions of related faults and second-order shear structures of three sub-areas, the northern Kuqa County, the Kalayuergun sub-area and the Kuqa-Dushanzi Highway sub-area, are identified. The information of subsurface geological body interface is extracted from the TM images of the Quaternary sediments, alluvium and gully. Based on this information, the characteristics of neotectonic movements of the Yangxia buried fault and Yaken growth anticline in this area are identified.