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Table of Contents - Special Paper 359

Ancient Seismites

Edited by Frank R. Ettensohn, Nicholas Rast, and Carlton E. Brett


Dedication
Nicholas Rast, 1927-2001
v
Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
1. Distinguishing seismic from nonseismic soft-sediment structures: Criteria from seismic-hazard analysis
Russell L. Wheeler
1
2. Paleoliquefaction studies in continental settings
Stephen F. Obermeier, Eric C. Pond, Scott M. Olson, and Russell A. Green
13
3. Late Quaternary paleoseismites: Syndepositional features and section restoration used to indicate paleoseismicity and stress-field orientations during faulting along the main Lima Reservoir fault, southwestern Montana
Mervin J. Bartholomew, Michael C. Stickney, Edith M. Wilde, and Robert G. Dundas
29
4. Stratigraphic evidence of coseismic faulting and aseismic fault creep from exploratory trenches at Mt. Edna Volcano (Sicily, Italy)
Luca Ferreli, Alessandro Maria Michetti, Leonello Serva, and Eutizio Vittori
49
5. Mid-Tertiary paleoseismites: Syndepositional features and section restoration used to indicate paleoseismicity, Atlantic Coastal Plain, South Carolina and Georgia
Mervin J. Bartholomew, Brendan M. Brodie, Ralph H. Willoughby, Sharon E. Lewis, and Frank H. Syms
63
6. Late Pleistocene soft-sediment deformation structures interpreted as seismites in paralic deposits in the city of Bari (Apulian foreland, southern Italy)
Massimo Moretti, Piero Pieri, and Marcello Tropeano
75
7. Indicators of paleoseismicity in the lower to middle Miocene Guadagnolo Formation, central Apennines, Italy
Goffredo Mariotti, Laura Corda, Marco Brandano, and Giacomo Civitelli
87
8. Stratigraphic and sedimentological evidence for late Paleozoic earthquakes and recurrent structural movement in the U.S. Midcontinent
Daniel F. Merriam and Andrea Fšrster
99
9. Critical evaluation of possible seismites: Examples from the Carboniferous of the Appalachian basin
Stephen F. Greb and Garland R. Dever Jr.
109
10. Late Mississippian paleoseismites from southeastern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia
Kevin G. Stewart, John M. Dennison, and Mervin J. Bartholomew
127
11. Anomalous paleoflow orientations: A potential methodology for determining recurrence rates and magnitudes in paleoseismic studies
Gerald J. Smith and Robert D. Jacobi
145
12. Seismically induced soft-sediment deformation in some Silurian carbonates, eastern U.S. Midcontinent
Charles M. Onasch and Charles F. Kahle
165
13. Interpreting ancient marine seismites and apparent epicentral areas for paleo-earthquakes, Middle Ordovician Lexington Limestone, central Kentucky
Frank R. Ettensohn, Mark A. Kulp, and Nicholas Rast
177