Fossil Record of Cascadia Earthquakes

[Oxytropidoceras]

Earthquakes Recorded Through Fossils. Geological Society of

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151102083225.htm

The GSA talk is:

Stratigraphic and Microfossil Evidence for Three Cascadia

Subduction Zone Earthquakes at Jacoby Creek, Arcata Bay,

California, USA. Geological Society of America Abstracts

with Programs. Vol. 47, No. 7, p.357

https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2015AM/webprogram/Paper260208.html

A 2016 review paper is:

Dura, T., E. Hemphill-Haley, Y. Sawai, and B. P. Horton, 2016,

The application of diatoms to reconstruct the history of

subduction zone earthquakes and tsunamis. Earth-Science

Reviews. vol. 152, pp. 181–197.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tina_Dura/publication/285550236_The_application_of_diatoms_to_reconstruct_the_history_of_subduction_zone_earthquakes_and_tsunamis/links/5669b81b08ae1a797e376ae0.pdf

Other publications are:

Leroy, T.,and J. Patton, 2005, Stratigraphic Evidence of

Paleoearthquakes and Paleotsunami in mid- to late-Holocene

Sediments: Humboldt Bay and Lower Eel River Valley,

Southern Cascadia Subduction Zone. October 22, 2005

Humboldt Friends of Geology Field Trip 4.

http://cascadiageo.org/HFOG/field_trips/2005/GUIDEBOOK_2005_letter.pdf

or https://goo.gl/7cTtQy

Nelson, A. R., H. M. Kelsey, and R. C. Witter, 2006, Great

earthquakes of variable magnitude at the Cascadia

subduction zone. Quaternary Research, vol. 65, pp. 354–365

https://goo.gl/KDkSFb

Yours,

Paul h.