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London: Illustrated Geological Walks (Book Two) by Eric Robinson.
The Encyclopedia of Minerals and Gemstones by Michael O'Donoghue (editor).
Geology: Principles and Methods by J. Dercourt and J. Paquet.
Geology and Society by Donald R. Coates.
Mount Etna: The Anatomy of a Volcano by D.K. Chester, A.M. Duncan, J.E. Guest and C.R.J. Kilburn.
Palaeontology: An Introduction by E.W. Nield and V.C.T. Tucker.     

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Petroleum Economics and Offshore Mining Legislation. A. P. H. VAN M eurs.
Sedimentografia-Atlante fotografico delle Strutture Primarie dei Sedimenti. F ranco R icci L ucchi.
Le Dolomiti. Geologia dei Monti tra Isarco e Piave. P. L eonardi.
Sedimente und Sedimentgesteine (Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks). H. F ücht-bauer and G erman M üller.
Geochronology of Phanerozoic Orogenic Belts—Eclogae Geol. Helv. , 63(1). E. J äger , M. G rünenfelder and R. H erb (Editors).
Physical Processes of Sedimentation. J. R. L. A llen .
African Magmatism and Tectonics. T. N. C lifford and I. G. G ass (Editors).
Les Formations sèdimentaires tertiaires et quaternaires de la Cuvette tchadienne et les Sols qui en dèrivent (Mèm. O.R.S.T.O.M. , 43). J. P ias.
Flysch Sedimentology in Northern America. J. L ajoie (Editor).
Development of the Northern Apennines Geosyncline. G. S estini (Editor).
Ancient Sedimentary Environments. richard C. selley.
Introductory Petrography of Fossils. A S. horowitz and P. E. potter     

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Paleoalgology, Contemporary Research and Applications, ed. by D. F. Toomey and M. H. Nitecki
Geology of Sedimentary Phosphates, by M. Slansky
Fine-grained Deposits and Biofacies of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway: Evidence of Cyclic Sedimentary Processes, ed. L. M. Pratt, E. G. Kauffman and F. B. Zelt
Correlation of the Silurian Rocks of China, by Mu, E. Z., A. J. Boucot, Chen, X. & Rong, J. Y. (ed. by A. J. Boucot and W. B. N. Berry)
Canadian Inland Seas, ed. by I. P. Martini     

TERRA BOOKS

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TECHNIQUES IN SEDIMENTOLOGY. Maurice E. Tucker (ed.) 1988
SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES. J. D. Collinson and D. B. Thompson
GEOLOGY OF THE HIGHER CENTRAL HIMALAYA. H.K. Sinha     

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Cross-bedding, Bedforms and Paleocurrents, by D. M. Rubin
Beach and Nearshore Sediments and Processes, ed. By R. A. Davis Jr.,
Sedimentary Processes on the Amazon Continental Shelf, ed. by C. A. Nittrouer and D. J. DeMaster
Fjords: Processes and Products, by J. P. M. Syvitski, D. C. Burrell, and J. M. Skei
Alluvial Soils, ed. by J. Gerrard,
Electron Micrographs (TEM, SEM) of Clays and Clay Minerals, by K.-H. Henning and M. Störr
The Origins of Angiosperms and their Biological consequences, ed. by E. M. Friis, W. G. Chaloner & P. R. Crane
The Motion of Allochthonous Terranes Across the North Pacific Basin, by M. G. Debiche, A. Cox and D. Engebretson
Geomorphic Systems of North America, ed. by W. L. Graf
Approaches to Interpretation of Sedimentary Environments, ed. by D. J. Cant and F. J. Hein
Carbonate Depositional Environments: Modern and Ancient. Part I. Reefs.
European Dinantian Environments, ed. by J. Miller, A.E. Adams, and V.P. Wright
Mesozoic and Cenozoic Oceans, ed. by K. J. Hsü
Marine Minerals: Advances in Research and Resource Assessment, ed. by P.G. Teleki, M.R. Dobson, J.R. Moore and U. von Stackelberg.
Sedimentation and Mineral Deposits in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean, ed. by D.S. Cronan
A Practical Approach to Sedimentology, by Ray Lindholm
Clastic Particles, Scanning Electron Microscopy and Shape Analysis of Sedimentary and Volcanic Claste, ed. by John R. Marshall     

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Sedimentary Dynamics of Continental Shelves , ed. by C. A. Nittrouer.
Soils and Landforms. An Integration of Geomorphology and Pedology , by A. J. Gerrard.
The Deep Sea Drilling Project: a decade of progress , ed. by J . E. Warme, R. G. Douglas and E. L. Winterer.
Geomorphological Techniques , ed. by Andrew Goudie, with M. Anderson, T. Burt, J. Lewin, K. Richards, B. Whalley, P. Worsley.
Computer Applications in the Earth Sciences-update of the 70s , by D. F. Merriam.
Deep-water Clastic Sediments: a Core Workshop , ed. by C. T. Siemers, R. W. Tillman and C. R. Williamson.     

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Stable Isotopes in Sedimentary Geology , by M. A. Arthur, T. F. Anderson, I. R. Kaplan, J. Veizer and L. S. Land.
Geomorphological Field Manual , by V. Gardiner and R. Dackombe.
Sediments aragonitiques et leur genèse , by J. P. Loreau.
Tomkeieff Dictionary of Petrology , ed. by E. K. Walton, B. A. Randall, M. H. Battey, & S. I. Tomkeieff.
Environmental Oceanography. An introduction to the behaviour of coastal waters , by T. Beer.     

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Essays in Geomorphology. G. H. D ury .
The Movement of Beach Sand—Developments in Sedimentology, 5. J. C. I ngle J r .
Manual de Sédimentologie. A. V atan .
Carbonate Rocks—Developments in Sedimentology, 9A. G. V. C hilingar , H. J. B issell and R. W. F airbridge (Editors).
Cyclic Sedimentation—Developments in Sedimentology, 10. P. M c L. D. D uff , A. H allam and E. K. W alton (Editors).     

BOREAS BOOK REVIEWS

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Quaternary glaciations — extent and chronology MATTHEW R. BENNETT
Ehlers, J. & Gibbard, P. L. 2004: Quaternary Glaciations — Extent and Chronology. Part I: Europe. Developments in Quaternary Science 2 .
Ehlers, J. & Gibbard, P. L. 2004: Quaternary Glaciations — Extent and Chronology. Part II: North America. Developments in Quaternary Science 2 .
Ehlers, J. & Gibbard, P. L. 2004: Quaternary Glaciations — Extent and Chronology. Part III: South America, Asia, Africa, Australasia, Antarctica. Developments in Quaternary Science 2 .
Unearthing human societies in a changing natural world GARY HAYNES
Branch, N., Canti, M., Clark, P. & Turney, C. 2005: Environmental Archaeology: Theoretical and Practical Approaches
The physical geography of Fennoscandia DAVID J. A. EVANS
Seppälä M. (ed.) 2005: The Physical Geography of Fennoscandia . Oxford University Press, Oxford, 432 pp. ISBN 0–199–24590–8 (hb). GBP 130.     

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Phosphate Deposits of the World; Volume 1, Proterozoic and Cambrian Phosphorites, ed. by P. J. Cook & J. H. Shergold
Sedimentary Environments and Facies, 2nd Edition, ed. by H. G. Reading
Strike-slip Deformation, Basin Formation and Sedimentation John C. Crowell Volume, ed. by Kevin T. Biddle and Nicholas Christie-Blick
The Miocene Ocean: Paleoceanography and Biogeography, ed. by J. P. Kennett.
Geochemistry and Sedimentology of the Mediterranean Sea, by E. M. Emel Yanov and K. M. Shimkus
Offshore and Coastal Modelling, ed. by P. P. G. Dyke, A. O. Moscarini & E. H. Robson
Surficial Deposits of the United States, by Charles B. Hunt
The Emplacement of Silicic Domes and Lava Flows, ed. by J. H. Fink     

Microfossils from the Cambrian to the Recent

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Bate, R. H., Robinson. E. & Shcppard, L. M. (eds.) 1982: Fossil and Recent Ostracods.
Neale, J. W. & Brasicr, M. D. (cds.) 1981: Microfossils from Recent and Fossil Shelf Seas.     

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Geochemistry of Sediments E. T. D egens .
Identification of Mineral Grains. M. P. J ones and M. G. F leming .     

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Response to 'A critique of the first volume of the Geological Conservation Review, by Douglas A. Bassett, formerly of the National Museum of Wales'
Sedimentary Petrology (2nd ed.) by M. E. Tucker.
The Processes of Fossilization by S. K. Donovan (ed.).
World Geomorphology by E. M. Bridges.
To Interpret the Earth: Ten Ways to be Wrong by Stanley A. Schumm.
Introduction to Physics of the Earth's Interior by Jean-Paul Poirier.
A Guide to the Geology and Land Forms of Central Australia by R. B. Thompson.
Field Experiments and Measurement Programs in Geomorphology by O. Slaymaker (ed.).     

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Antarctic Cenozoic History from the MSSTS-1 Drill Hole McMurdo Sound, ed. by P. J. Barrett
Experimental Fluvial Geomorphology, by Stanley A. Schumm, M. Paul Mosley and William E. Weaver
Diagenetic Bedding: A Model for Marl-Limestone Alterations, by W. Ricken
Cretaceous and Cenozoic Sedimentary Basins of the West Coast Region, South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Basin Studies1, by S. Nathan, H. J. Anderson, R. A. Cook, R. H. Herzer, R. H. Hoskins, J. I. Raine and D. Smale
The Marine Environment of the U.S. Atlantic Continental Slope and Rise, ed. by J. D. Milliman & W. R. Wright
Shelf Sands and Sandstones, ed. by R. John Knight and J. Ross McLean.
Foreland Basins, ed. by P. A. Allen and P. Homewood.
Proterozoic Geology: Selected Papers from an International Proterozoic Symposium, ed. L. G. Medaris, Jr., C. W. Byers, D. M. Mickelson & W. C. Shanks
Géologie de la Préhistoire, Méthodes, Techniques, Applications, ed. by J. C. Miskovsky
Aeolian Geomorphology (Proceedings of the 17th Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, September 1986.), ed. by William G. Nickling
Aeolian Dust and Dust Deposits, by K. Pye
Biological Markers in the Sedimentary Record, ed. by R. B. Johns
Stable Isotope Geochemistry, by J. Hoefs
Reef Diagenesis, ed. by J. H. Schroeder and B. H. Purser     

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Principles of Physical Sedimentology , by J. R. L. Allen, George Allen and Unwin
Experiments in Physical Sedimentology , by J. R. L. Allen, George Allen and Unwin
Archaean Geochemistry: The Origin and Evolution of the Archaean Continental Crust , ed. by A Kröner, G. N. Hanson & A. M. Goodwin
Estuaries as Sinks for Sediment and Industrial Waste - a Case History from the Massachusetts Coast , by C. P. Summerhayes, J. P. Ellis & P. Stoffers
Sedimentology - Recent Developments and Applied Aspects , ed. by P. J Brenchley & B. J. P. Williams
Environmental Chemistry , by Peter O'Neill     

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Sand and Sandstone, 2nd ed, by F. J. Pettijohn, P. E. Potter and R. Siever
Evaporite Sedimentology: Importance in Hydrocarbon Accumulation, by J. K. Warren
Cathodoluminescence of Geological Materials, by D. J. Marshall
Carbonate Rock Depositional Models: A Microfacies Approach, by A. V. Carozzi
Flood Geomorphology, ed. by V. R. Baker, R. C. Kochel and P. C. Patton
Clay Minerals for Petroleum Geologists and Engineers, by E. Eslinger and D. Pevear
Later Proterozoic Stratigraphy of the Northern Atlantic Regions, ed. by J. A. Winchester
New Perspectives in Basin Analysis, ed. by K. L. Kleinspehn and C. Paola     

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Environmental Evolution: Effects of the Origin and Evolution of Life on Planet Earth by Lynn Margulis and Lorraine Olendzenski (eds).
Climate Modes of the Phanerozoic: The History of the Earth's Climate over the Past 600 Million Years by L.A. Frakes, J.E. Francis and J.L. Syktus.
Uluru and Kata Tjuta: A Geological History by I. P. Sweet and I. H. Crick.
Satellites of the Outer Planets: Worlds in their Own Right by David A. Rothery.     

Late Pleistocene and Holocene paleoseismology of an intraplate seismic zone in a large alluvial valley, the New Madrid seismic zone, Central USA

The New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ) is an intraplate right-lateral strike-slip and thrust fault system contained mostly within the Mississippi Alluvial Valley. The most recent earthquake sequence in the zone occurred in 1811–1812 and had estimated moment magnitudes of 7–8 (e.g., [Johnston, A.C., 1996. Seismic moment assessment of stable continental earthquakes, Part 3: 1811–1812 New Madrid, 1886 Charleston, and 1755 Lisbon. Geophysical Journal International 126, 314–344; Johnston, A.C., Schweig III, E.S, 1996. The enigma of the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–1812. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences 24, 339–384; Hough, S.E., Armbruster, J.G., Seeber, L., Hough, J.F., 2000. On the modified Mercalli intensities and magnitudes of the New Madrid earthquakes. Journal of Geophysical Research 105 (B10), 23,839–23,864; Tuttle, M.P., 2001. The use of liquefaction features in paleoseismology: Lessons learned in the New Madrid seismic zone, central United States. Journal of Seismology 5, 361–380]). Four earlier prehistoric earthquakes or earthquake sequences have been dated A.D. 1450 ± 150, 900 ± 100, 300 ± 200, and 2350 B.C. ± 200 years using paleoliquefaction features, particularly those associated with native American artifacts, and in some cases surface deformation ([Craven, J. A. 1995. Paleoseismology study in the New Madrid seismic zone using geological and archeological features to constrain ages of liquefaction deposits. M.S thesis, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.; Tuttle, M.P., Lafferty III, R.H., Guccione, M.J., Schweig III, E.S., Lopinot, N., Cande, R., Dyer-Williams, K., Haynes, M., 1996. Use of archaeology to date liquefaction features and seismic events in the New Madrid seismic zone, central United States. Geoarchaeology 11, 451–480; Guccione, M.J., Mueller, K., Champion, J., Shepherd, S., Odhiambo, B., 2002b. Stream response to repeated co-seismic folding, Tiptonville dome, western Tennessee. Geomorphology 43(2002), 313–349; Tuttle, M.P., Schweig, E.S., Sims, J.D., Lafferty, R.H., Wolf, L.W., Haynes, M.L., 2002. The earthquake potential of the New Madrid seismic zone, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v 92, n. 6, p. 2080–2089; Tuttle, M.P., Schweig III, E.S., Campbell, J., Thomas, P.M., Sims, J.D., Lafferty III, R.H., 2005. Evidence for New Madrid earthquakes in A.D. 300 and 2350 B.C. Seismological Research Letters 76, 489–501]). The two most recent prehistoric and the 2350 B.C. events were probably also earthquake sequences with approximately the same magnitude as the historic sequence.Surface deformation (faulting and folding) in an alluvial setting provides many examples of stream response to gradient changes that can also be used to date past earthquake events. Stream responses include changes in channel morphology, deviations in the channel path from the regional gradient, changes in the direction of flow, anomalous longitudinal profiles, and aggradation or incision of the channel ([Merritts, D., Hesterberg, T, 1994. Stream networks and long-term surface uplift in the New Madrid seismic zone. Science 265, 1081–1084.; Guccione, M.J., Mueller, K., Champion, J., Shepherd, S., Odhiambo, B., 2002b. Stream response to repeated co-seismic folding, Tiptonville dome, western Tennessee. Geomorphology 43 (2002), 313–349]). Uplift or depression of the floodplain affects the frequency of flooding and thus the thickness and style of vertical accretion or drowning of a meander scar to form a lake. Vegetation may experience trauma, mortality, and in some cases growth enhancement due to ground failure during the earthquake and hydrologic changes after the earthquake ([VanArdale, R.B., Stahle, D.W., Cleaveland, M.K., Guccione, M.J., 1998. Earthquake signals in tree-ring data from the New Madrid seismic zone and implications for paleoseismicity. Geology 26, 515–518]). Identification and dating these physical and biologic responses allows source areas to be identified and seismic events to be dated.Seven fault segments are recognized by microseismicity and geomorphology. Surface faulting has been recognized at three of these segments, Reelfoot fault, New Madrid North fault, and Bootheel fault. The Reelfoot fault is a compressive stepover along the strike-slip fault and has up to 11 m of surface relief ([Carlson, S.D., 2000. Formation and geomorphic history of Reelfoot Lake: insight into the New Madrid seismic zone. M.S. Thesis, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S.A]) deforming abandoned and active Mississippi River channels ([Guccione, M.J., Mueller, K., Champion, J., Shepherd, S., Odhiambo, B., 2002b. Stream response to repeated co-seismic folding, Tiptonville dome, western Tennessee. Geomorphology 43 (2002), 313–349]). The New Madrid North fault apparently has only strike-slip motion and is recognized by modern microseismicity, geomorphic anomalies, and sand cataclasis ([Baldwin, J.N., Barron A.D., Kelson, K.I., Harris, J.B., Cashman, S., 2002. Preliminary paleoseismic and geophysical investigation of the North Farrenburg lineament: primary tectonic deformation associated with the New Madrid North Fault?. Seismological Research Letters 73, 393–413]). The Bootheel fault, which is not identified by the modern microseismicity, is associated with extensive liquefaction and offset channels ([Guccione, M.J., Marple, R., Autin, W.J., 2005, Evidence for Holocene displacements on the Bootheel fault (lineament) in southeastern Missouri: Seismotectonic implications for the New Madrid region. Geological Society of America Bulletin 117, 319–333]). The fault has dominantly strike-slip motion but also has a vertical component of slip. Other recognized surface deformation includes relatively low-relief folding at Big Lake/Manila high ([Guccione, M.J., VanArdale, R.B., Hehr, L.H., 2000. Origin and age of the Manila high and associated Big Lake “Sunklands”, New Madrid seismic zone, northeastern Arkansas. Geological Society of America Bulletin 112, 579–590]) and Lake St. Francis/Marked Tree high ([Guccione, M.J., VanArsdale, R.B., 1995. Origin and age of the St. Francis Sunklands using drainage patterns and sedimentology. Final report submitted to the U. S. Geological Survey, Award Number 1434-93-G-2354, Washington D.C.]), both along the subsurface Blytheville arch. Deformation at each of the fault segments does not occur during each earthquake event, indicating that earthquake sources have varied throughout the Holocene.