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Table of Contents - Special Paper 359Ancient SeismitesEdited by Frank R. Ettensohn, Nicholas Rast, and Carlton E. Brett |
Dedication Nicholas Rast, 1927-2001 |
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Preface | vii | |
Acknowledgments | ix | |
1. | Distinguishing seismic from nonseismic soft-sediment structures: Criteria from seismic-hazard analysis Russell L. Wheeler |
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2. | Paleoliquefaction studies in continental settings Stephen F. Obermeier, Eric C. Pond, Scott M. Olson, and Russell A. Green |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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7. | Indicators of paleoseismicity in the lower to middle Miocene Guadagnolo Formation, central Apennines, Italy Goffredo Mariotti, Laura Corda, Marco Brandano, and Giacomo Civitelli |
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8. | Stratigraphic and sedimentological evidence for late Paleozoic earthquakes and recurrent structural movement in the U.S. Midcontinent Daniel F. Merriam and Andrea Frster |
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9. | Critical evaluation of possible seismites: Examples from the Carboniferous of the Appalachian basin Stephen F. Greb and Garland R. Dever Jr. |
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10. | Late Mississippian paleoseismites from southeastern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia Kevin G. Stewart, John M. Dennison, and Mervin J. Bartholomew |
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11. | Anomalous paleoflow orientations: A potential methodology for determining recurrence rates and magnitudes in paleoseismic studies Gerald J. Smith and Robert D. Jacobi |
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12. | Seismically induced soft-sediment deformation in some Silurian carbonates, eastern U.S. Midcontinent Charles M. Onasch and Charles F. Kahle |
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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 |
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