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Atwater, B.F., Nelson, A.R., Clague, J.J., Carver, G.A., Yamaguchi, D.K., Bobrowsky, P.T., Bourgeois, J., Darienzo, M.E., Grant, W.C., Hemphill-Haley, E., Kelsey, H.M., Jacoby, G.C., Nishenko, S.P., Palmer, S.P., Peterson, C.D., and Reinhart, M.A., 1995, Summary of geologic evidence for past great earthquakes at the Cascadia subduction zone: Earthquake Spectra, v. 1, p. 1-18.

Atwater, B.F., 1996, Coastal evidence for great earthquakes in western Washington, in Rogers, A.M., Walsh, T.J., Kockelman, W.J., and Priest, G.R., eds., Earthquake hazards in the Pacific Northwest of the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1560, p. 77-90.

Balistrieri, L.S., Murray, J.W., and Paul, B., 1994, The geochemical cycling of trace elements in a biogenic meromictic lake: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 58, p. 3993-4008.
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Balistrieri, L.S., Gough, L.P., Severson, R.C., and Archuleta, A., 1995, The biogeochemistry of wetlands in the San Luis Valley, Colorado: the effects of acid drainage from natural and mine sources: in Proceedings: Summitville Forum 95. H.H. Posey, J.A. Pendleton, and D. Van Zyl, eds., Colorado Geological Survey Special Publication 38, p. 219-226.
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Balistrieri, L.S., Gough, L.P., Severson, R.C., Montour, M., Briggs, P.H., Adrain, B., Curry, J., Fey, D., Hageman, P., and Papp, C., 1995, The effect of acidic, metal-enriched drainage from the Wightman Fork and Alamosa River on the composition of selected wetlands in the San Luis Valley, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-568.
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Balistrieri, L.S., Murray, J.W., and Paul, B., 1995, The geochemical cycling of stable Pb, Pb-210, and Po-210 in seasonally anoxic Lake Sammamish, Washington: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 59, p. 4845-4861.
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Balistrieri, L.S., Ortiz, R.F., Briggs, P.H., Elrick, K.A., and Edelmann, P., 1996, Metal fluxes across the sediment-water interface in Terrace Reservoir, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-040.
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Blakely, R.J., R.E.Wells, S.Yelin, I.P.Madin, and M.H. Beeson, 1995, Tectonic setting of the Portland-Vancouver area, Oregon and Washington: Constraints from low altitude aeromagnetic data, Geological Society of America bulletin, v. 107, p. 1051-1062.
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Cole, S.C., Atwater, B.F., McCutcheon, P.T., Stein, J.K., and Hemphill-Haley, E., 1996, Earthquake-induced burial of archaeological sites along the southern Washington coast about A.D. 1700: Geoarchaeology, v. 11, p. 165-177.

Haugerud, R.A., 1998, The North American Cordillera: A color shaded- relief map in oblique Mercator projection about the Pacific-North America pole of rotation, scale circa 1:5,000,000: U.S. Geological Survey Open-file Report 98-140, http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/open-file/of98-140

Haugerud, R.A., 1996, Digital Topographic-Bathymetric Map of Cascadia: Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, v. 28, p.73
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Mahoney, J.B., Haugerud, R.A., Friedman, R.M., and Tabor, R.W., 1996, Newby Group: An upper Jurassic volcanic-arc assemblage in the southern Methow terrane, Washington: Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, v. 28, p. 88.
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Meagher, K.L., 1993, Relocation of earthquakes in the Parkfield region, Central California, 1932-1969 in, Wesson, R.L., and Miyazaki, Yamamoto, eds, Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Meeting of the U.S.-Japan Conference on Natural Resources (UJNR), Panel on Earthquake Prediction Technology, November 16-21, 1992: U.S. Geological Survey Open- File Report 93-542, p. 215-223.

Meagher, K.L., and Weaver, C.S., 1995, Relocation of Published Earthquakes in South-Central California, 1932-1969: Evidence for a Temporally Stable Seismicity Pattern: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, in press.
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Nelson, A.R., Atwater, B.F., Bobrosky, P.T., Bradley, L. A., Clague, J.J., Carver, G.A., Darienzo, M.E., Grant, W.C., Krueger, H.W., Sparks, R., Stafford, T.W., and Stuiver, M., 1995, Radiocarbon evidence for extensive plate-boundary rupture about 300 years ago at the Cascadia subduction zone: Nature, v. 378, p. 371-374.

Newhall, C.G., and Punongbayan, R.S., eds., 1996, Fire and Mud: Eruptions and Lahars of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines: PHIVOLCS, Quezon City, and University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1126 p.
Summary available

Norris, R.D., 1994, Seismicity of Rockfalls and Avalanches at Three Cascade Range Volcanoes: Implications for Seismic Detection of Hazardous Mass movements: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 84, p. 1925-1939.
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Norris, R.D., 1995, Seismic Detection of Debris Avalanches at Mount Rainier and Other Cascade Volcanoes: Successes and Limits: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 76, p.F651.
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Norris, R.D., 1996, The Release and Descent of the July 1996 Happy Isles Rockfall, Yosemite National Park, California, As Interpreted From NCSN Seismic Data: EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 77, p.F651.
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Norris, R.D., Meagher, K.L., and Weaver, C.S., 1997, The 1936, 1945-47, and 1950 Earthquake Sequences near Lassen Peak, California: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 102, p. 449-458.
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Riedel, J.L., and Haugerud, R.A., 1994, Glacial Rearrangement of Drainage in the Northern North Cascades Range, Washington: Abstracts with Programs, Geological Society of America, 1994 Annual Meeting, p. 112.
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Tabor, R.W., Haugerud, R.A., Booth, D.B., and E.H. Brown, 1994, Preliminary Geologic Map of the Mount Baker 30-by-60 minute Quadrangle, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-403.
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Thomas, G.C., R.S.Crosson, D.L. Carver and T.S. Yelin, 1996, The 25 March 1993 Scotts Mills, Oregon, earthquake and aftershock sequence: spatial distribution, mechanisms and the Mount Angel fault: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v.86, p. 925-935.
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Yelin, T.S., A.C. Tarr, Michael, A.J., and Weaver, C.S., 1994, Washington and Oregon Earthquake History and Hazards: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-226B.

Yelin, T.S., 1996, Recurrence intervals for shallow crustal and Benioff zone earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest: 92nd Annual Cordilleran Section Meeting, Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 1996, no.5, p.127.

Yelin, T.S., and Patton, J.J., 1991, Seismotectonics of the Portland, Oregon, region: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v.81, p. 109-130.
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Weaver, C.S., 1994, Work in progress in the Pacific northwest National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, fiscal year 1994: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 94-154, 34 p.

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