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Table of Contents - Special Paper 493

Recent Advances in North American Paleoseismology and Neotectonics East of the Rockies

Edited by Randel Tom Cox, Martitia P. Tuttle, Oliver S. Boyd, and Jacques Locat

Preface		v
1.	Origin of the Blytheville Arch, and long-term displacement on the New Madrid seismic zone, central United States Thomas L. Pratt, Robert A. Williams, Jack K. Odum, and William J. Stephenson	1
2.	Pleistocene shorelines and coastal rivers: Sensitive potential indicators of Quaternary tectonism along the Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America Mervin J. Bartholomew and Fredrick J. Rich	17
3.	Surface faults of the south Louisiana growth-fault province Richard P. McCulloh and Paul V. Heinrich	37
4.	Evidence for post-Triassic brittle faults in eastern Connecticut and south-central Massachusetts using LiDAR, geomorphic, and geophysical data combined with field observations: Implications for the origin of the Moodus area seismicity Ronald T. Marple, Robert J. Altamura, Shelton S. Alexander, and James D. Hurd	51
5.	Cenozoic faulting in southernmost Illinois W. John Nelson	89
6.	Large earthquake paleoseismology in the East Tennessee seismic zone: Results of an 18-month pilot study Robert D. Hatcher Jr., James D. Vaughn, and Stephen F. Obermeier	111
7.	Holocene faulting on the Saline River fault zone, Arkansas, along the Alabama–Oklahoma transform Randel Tom Cox, James Harris, Steven Forman, Tom Brezina, Joshua Gordon, Chris Gardner, and Sarah Machin	143
8.	Structural controls on intraplate earthquakes in the eastern United States Mervin J. Bartholomew and Roy B. Van Arsdale	165
9.	Earthquake-induced load casts, pseudonodules, ball-and-pillow structures, and convolute lamination: Additional deformation structures for paleoseismic studies John D. Sims	191
10.	Seismic signatures: Small-scale features and ground fractures Ronald Counts and Stephen F. Obermeier	203
11.	Improving seismic hazard assessment in New England through the use of surficial geologic maps and expert analysis Laurence R. Becker, Steven P. Patriarco, Robert G. Marvinney, Margaret A. Thomas, Stephen B. Mabee, and Edward S. Fratto	221
12.	The 2008 U.S. Geological Survey national seismic hazard models and maps for the central and eastern United States Mark D. Petersen, Arthur D. Frankel, Stephen C. Harmsen, Charles S. Mueller, Oliver S. Boyd, Nicolas Luco, Russell L. Wheeler, Kenneth S. Rukstales, and Kathleen M. Haller	243
13.	A critique of probabilistic versus deterministic seismic hazard analysis with special reference to the New Madrid seismic zone Zhenming Wang and James C. Cobb	259