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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