[CEUS-earthquake-hazards] NMSZ publications

[Roy B Van Arsdale (rvanrsdl)]

Dear Readership:



I would like to bring to your attention some recent publications that are relevant to earthquake hazards in the central United States.  If you have any questions, please feel free to email me (rvanrsdl at memphis.edu).

The following paper discusses the geology underlying Memphis and its geotechnical aspects.  It also summarizes the city's natural hazards.
Van Arsdale, R.B., Arellano, D., Stevens, K.C., Hill, A.A., Lester, J.D., Parks, A.G., Csontos, R.M., Rapino, M.A., Deen, T.S., Woolery, E.W., Harris, J.B., 2012, Geology, Geotechnical Engineering, and Natural Hazards of Memphis, Tennessee, USA.  Environmental & Engineering Geoscience, v. 18, p. 113-158, doi:10.2113/gseegeosci.18.2.113

The following paper presents the fundamental nature of the basement rocks east of the Rockies and their possible impact on active tectonics in the eastern United States.
Bartholomew, M.J., and Van Arsdale, R.B., 2012, Structural controls on intraplate earthquakes in the eastern United States, in Cox, R.T., Tuttle, M.P., Boyd, O.S., and Locat, J., eds., Recent Advances in North American Paleoseismology and Neotectonics East of the Rockies: Geological Society of America Special Paper 493, p. 165-190, doi:10.1130/2012.2493(08).

The following paper discusses a fault zone exposed in a trench in western Shelby County and the earthquake history it reveals.
Cox, R.T., Van Arsdale, R., Clark, D., Hill, A., and Lumsden, D., 2013, A revised paleo-earthquake chronology on the southeast Reelfoot rift margin near Memphis, Tennessee.  Seismological Research Letters, v. 84, p. 402-408.

The following paper presents subsurface evidence for young faulting along the western margin of the Reelfoot rift from near New Madrid, MO to Cairo, IL.
Pryne, D., Van Arsdale, R., Csontos, R., and Woolery, E., 2013, Northeastern Extension of the New Madrid North Fault-New Madrid Seismic Zone, Central United States.  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 103, p. 2277-2294.

The following paper presents a new model for active faulting in the Eastern Lowlands of the Mississippi River valley that reveals different types of faulting in simple shear.
Van Arsdale, R., and Cupples, W., 2013, Late Pliocene and Quaternary deformation of the Reelfoot rift. Geosphere, v. 9, n. 6, p.p1819-1831. doi:10.1130/GES00906.1

The following paper discusses subsurface evidence for extending the Reelfoot fault 14.5 km northwest of New Madrid, MO.
Van Arsdale, R., Pryne, D., and Woolery, E., 2013, Northwestern extension of the Reelfoot North fault near New Madrid, Missouri.  Seismological Research Letters, v. 84, n. 6, p. 1114-1123.

The following paper is a summary of the literature on the New Madrid seismic zone.
Van Arsdale, R., 2014, The New Madrid seismic zone of the Central United States.  In Intraplate Earthquakes, P. Talwani (Ed), Cambridge University Press, p. 162-197.

The following paper presents new maps on the expected ground motions in Shelby County from a large New Madrid seismic zone earthquake.
Cramer, C.H., Van Arsdale, R.B., Dhar, M.S., Pryne, D., and Paul, J., 2014, Update of Urban Seismic Hazard Maps for Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee: Geology and Vs Observations.  Seismological Research Letters, v. 85, p. 986-996.

Based on Al-Be cosmogenic dating the following abstract documents that the Upland Complex (high level Pliocene terrace of the Mississippi River) is ~3.1 million years old.
Van Arsdale, R.B., Balco, G., Bierman, P.R., Rood, D.H., Rovey, C., Cox, R.T., Lumsden, D.N., and Parks, A., 2014, The Pliocene Mississippi River.  Geological Society of America, v. 46, n. 6, p. 228.

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