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  • Bonilla, Manuel G., and Lienkaemper, James J., 1991, Factors affecting the recognition of faults exposed in exploratory trenches:  U.S.
    Geological Survey Bulletin 1947, 54 p.

  • Burbank, Douglas W., and Anderson, Robert S., 2001, Tectonic geomorphology:  Blackwell Science, 274 p

  • Noller, J.S., Sowers, J.M., and Lettis, W.R., editors, Quaternary Geochronology:  American Geophysical Union, Reference Shelf vol. 4,   581 p.  
    (comprehensive treatise)

  • Hart, Earl W., and Bryant, William A., 1997, Fault–rupture hazard zones in California:  California Geological Survey, Special Publication 42,
    1997 edition with 1999 supplements, 38 p. download pdf from:      www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs

  • Keller, Edward A., and Pinter, Nicholas, 2002, Active tectonics, 2nd edition:  Prentice–Hall, 9 chapters, 362 p.

  • McCalpin, James P., editor, 1996, Paleoseismology:  Academic Press, 9 chapters, 588 p.

  • Scholz, Christopher H., 2002, The mechanics of earthquakes and faulting, 2nd edition:  Cambridge University Press, 7 chapters, 471 p.

  • Shlemon, Roy J., 1985, Application of soil–stratigraphic techniques to engineering geology:  Bulletin of the Association of Engineering
    Geologists, vol. 22, no. 2, p. 129–142.

  • Sieh, Kerry E., 1996, The repetition of large–earthquake processes:  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 93, p. 3764–
    3771.     pdf at: <  www.pnas.org  >

  • Yeats, Robert S., Sieh, Kerry E., and Allen, Clarence R., 1997, The geology of earthquakes:  Oxford University Press, 568 p. (especially
    Chapter 6, Quaternary Timescales and Dating Techniques; and Chapter 7, Tectonic Geomorphology).
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California Geological Survey
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