The Mississippi River source-to-sink system: Perspectives on tectonic, climatic, and anthropogenic influences, Miocene to Anthropocene

SJ Bentley Sr, MD Blum, J Maloney, L Pond… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mississippi River fluvial–marine sediment-dispersal system (MRS) has become
the focus of renewed research during the past decade, driven by the recognition that the …

Mid-continental earthquakes: Spatiotemporal occurrences, causes, and hazards

M Liu, S Stein - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Large earthquakes in North China, Australia, Northwestern Europe, Central and
Eastern United States, and other mid-continents show complex spatiotemporal patterns that …

A new paradigm for large earthquakes in stable continental plate interiors

E Calais, T Camelbeeck, S Stein… - Geophysical Research …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Large earthquakes within stable continental regions (SCR) show that significant amounts of
elastic strain can be released on geological structures far from plate boundary faults, where …

Luminescence dating of fluvial deposits: applications to geomorphic, palaeoseismic and archaeological research

TM Rittenour - Boreas, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Fluvial deposits and landforms are important archives of river response to climate, tectonics
and base level change and are commonly associated with archaeological sites. Unlike …

Long aftershock sequences within continents and implications for earthquake hazard assessment

S Stein, M Liu - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
One of the most powerful features of plate tectonics is that the known plate motions give
insight into both the locations and average recurrence interval of future large earthquakes …

Coseismic river avulsion on surface rupturing faults: Assessing earthquake-induced flood hazard

E McEwan, T Stahl, A Howell, R Langridge… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Surface-rupturing earthquakes can produce fault displacements that abruptly alter the
established course of rivers. Several notable examples of fault rupture–induced river …

Three-dimensional reconstruction of meander-belt evolution, Cretaceous McMurray Formation, Alberta foreland basin, Canada

PR Durkin, RL Boyd, SM Hubbard… - Journal of …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The three-dimensional reconstruction of meander-belt deposits from ancient strata provides
insight into the formative processes of meander-bend evolution and paleogeographic …

Fluvial evolution of the lower Mississippi River valley during the last 100 ky glacial cycle: Response to glaciation and sea-level change

TM Rittenour, MD Blum… - Geological Society of …, 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The lower Mississippi valley contains multiple large braid belts for which age control has
been limited. Application of the optically stimulated luminescence technique has produced a …

Earthquake supercycles and long-term fault memory

L Salditch, S Stein, J Neely, BD Spencer, EM Brooks… - Tectonophysics, 2020 - Elsevier
Long records often show large earthquakes occurring in supercycles, sequences of
temporal clusters of seismicity, cumulative displacement, and cumulative strain release …

Earthquake synchrony and clustering on Fucino faults (Central Italy) as revealed from in situ 36Cl exposure dating

L Benedetti, I Manighetti, Y Gaudemer… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We recover the Holocene earthquake history of seven seismogenic normal faults in the
Fucino system, central Italy. We collected 800 samples from the wellpreserved limestone …