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Tuttle, M. P., Hartleb, R., and Lindvall, S., 2011, Central and Eastern U.S. paleoliquefaction database, uncertainties associated with paleoliquefaction data, and guidance for seismic source characterization, in The Central and Eastern U.S. Seismic Source Characterization Project Report, Technical Report, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA, 100 p. plus database, in preparation.

Tuttle, M. P., Lafferty, R. H., Cande, R. F., and Sierzchula, M. C., 2011, Impact of earthquake-induced liquefaction and related ground failure on a Mississippian archeological site in the New Madrid seismic zone, central USA, submitted to paleoseismology-archeoseismology issue of Quaternary International, 25 p.

Tuttle, M. P., and Atkinson, G. M., 2010, Localization of large earthquakes in the Charlevoix seismic zone, Quebec, Canada during the past 10,000 years, Seismological Research Letters, v. 81, n. 1, p. 18-25.

Tuttle, M. P., Al-Shukri, H, and Mahdi, H., 2006, Very large earthquakes centered southwest of the New Madrid seismic zone 5,000-7,000 years ago, Seismological Research Letters, v. 77, n. 6, p. 664-678.

Rhodes, B., Tuttle, M. P., Horton, B., Doner, L., Kelsey, H., Nelson, A., Cisternas, M., 2006, Paleotsunami research, American Geophysical Union, EOS, v. 87, n. 21, p. 205, 209.

Tuttle, M. P., 2005, New Madrid in motion, Nature, v. 435, p. 1037-1039.

Tuttle, M. P., Schweig, E., III, Campbell, J., Thomas, P. M., Sims, J. D., and Lafferty, R. H., III, 2005, Evidence for New Madrid earthquakes in A.D. 300 and 2350 B.C., Seismological Research Letters, v. 76, n. 4, p. 489-501.

Tuttle, M. P., Dyer-Williams, K., Schweig, E. S., Prentice, C. S., Moya, J. C., and Tucker, K. B., 2005, Liquefaction induced by historic and prehistoric earthquakes in western Puerto Rico, in Basu, A., ed., Active tectonics and seismic hazards of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and offshore areas, Geological Society of America Special Paper, 385, p. 263-276.

Atwater, B. F., Bourgeois, J., Yeh, H., Abbott, D., Cisternas, M., Glawe, U., Higman, B., Horton, B. P., Peters, R., Rajendran, K. and Tuttle, M. P., 2005, Tsunami geology and its role in hazard mitigation, American Geophysical Union, EOS, v. 86, p. 400.

Wolf, L. W., Lee, M.-K., Browning, S., and Tuttle, M. P., 2005, Numerical analysis of overpressure development in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 95, n. 1, p. 135-144.

Tuttle, M. P., Ruffman, A., Anderson, T., and Jeter, H., 2004, Distinguishing tsunami deposits from storm deposits along the coast of northeastern North America: Lessons learned from the 1929 Grand Banks tsunami and the 1991 Halloween storm, Seismological Research Letters, v. 75, n. 1, p. 117-131.

Atwater, B. F., Tuttle, M. P., Schweig, E. S., Rubin, C. M., Yamaguchi, D. K., and Hemphill-Haley, E., 2004, Earthquake recurrence inferred from paleoseismology, in Gillespie, A. R., Porter, S. C., and Atwater, B. F., eds., The Quaternary period in the United States: Developments in Quaternary Science 1, Elsevier, Amsterdam-New York, p. 331-350.

Rydelek, P. A., and Tuttle, M. P., 2004, Explosive craters and soil liquefaction, Nature, v. 427. p. 115-116.

Tuttle, M. P., Prentice, C. S., Dyer-Williams, K., Pena, L. R., and Burr, G., 2003, Late Holocene liquefaction features in the Dominican Republic: A powerful tool for earthquake hazard assessment in the northeastern Caribbean, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 93, n. 1, p. 27-46.

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., Dyer-Williams, K., and Barstow, N. L., 2002, Paleoliquefaction study of the Clarendon-Linden fault system, western New York State, Tectonophysics, v. 353, p. 263-286.

Tuttle, M. P., Hengesh, J., Tucker, K. B., Lettis, W., Deaton, S. L., and Frost, J. D., 2002, Observations and comparisons of liquefaction features and related effects induced by the Bhuj earthquake, Earthquake Spectra, v. 18, Supplement A, p. 79-100.

Ebel, J. E., and Tuttle, M. P., 2002, Earthquakes in the eastern Great Lakes basin from a regional perspective, Tectonophysics, v. 353, p. 17-30.

Liao, T., Mayne, P. W., Tuttle, M. P., Schweig, E. S., Van Arsdale, R. B., 2002, CPT site characterization for seismic hazards in the New Madrid seismic zone, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, v. 22, p. 943-950.

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, v. 5, p. 361-380.

Tuttle, M. P., Sims, J. D., Dyer-Williams, K., Lafferty, R. H., III, and Schweig, E. S., III, 2000, Dating of liquefaction features in the New Madrid seismic zone, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NUREG/GR-0018, 42 p.

Tuttle, M. P., 1999, Late Holocene earthquakes and their implications for earthquake potential of the New Madrid seismic zone, University of Maryland, Ph.D. Dissertation, 250 p.

Tuttle, M. P., Collier, J., Wolf, L. W., and Lafferty, R. H., 1999, New evidence for a large earthquake in the New Madrid seismic zone between A.D. 1400 and 1670, Geology, v. 27, n. 9, p. 771-774.

Tuttle, M., Chester, J., Lafferty, R., Dyer-Williams, K., and Cande, B., 1999, Paleoseismology study northwest of the New Madrid seismic zone, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NUREG/CR-5730, 98 p.

Tuttle, M. P., Lafferty, R. H., III, and Schweig, E. S., III, 1998, Dating of liquefaction features in the New Madrid seismic zone and implications for earthquake hazard, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NUREG/GR-0017, 77 p.

Li, Y., Schweig, E., Tuttle, M. P., and Ellis, M. A., 1998, Evidence for large prehistoric earthquakes in the northern New Madrid seismic zone, central United States, Seismological Research Letters, v. 69, p. 270-276.

Wolf, L. W., Collier, J., Tuttle, M., and Bodin, P., 1998, Geophysical reconnaissance of earthquake-induced liquefaction features in the New Madrid seismic zone, Journal of Applied Geophysics, v. 39, p. 121-129.

Tuttle, M., and N. Barstow, 1996, Liquefaction-related ground failure: A case study in the New Madrid seismic zone, central United States, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 86, n. 3, p. 636-645.

Tuttle, M. P., Lafferty, R. H., Guccione, M. J., Schweig, E. S., Lopinot, N., Cande, R. F., Dyer-Williams, K., and Haynes, M., 1996, Use of archaeology to date liquefaction features and seismic events in the New Madrid seismic zone, central United States, Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, v. 11, n. 6, p. 451-480.

Tuttle, M. P., and Schweig, E. S., 1995, Archeological and pedological evidence for large earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone, central United States, Geology v. 23, p. 253-256.

Tuttle, M. P., and Sykes, L., 1992, Re-evaluation of several large historic earthquakes in the vicinity of the Loma Prieta and Peninsular segments of the San Andreas fault, California, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 82, n. 4, p. 1802-1820.

Tuttle, M., and Seeber, L., 1991, Historic and prehistoric earthquake-induced liquefaction in Newbury, Massachusetts, Geology, v. 19, n. 6, p. 594-597.

Tuttle, M., Law, T., Seeber, L., and Jacob, K., 1990, Liquefaction and ground failure in Ferland, Quebec, triggered by the 1988 Saguenay Earthquake, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, v. 27, p. 580-589.

Tuttle, M., Cowie, P., Tinsley, J., Bennett, M., and Berrill, J., 1990, Liquefaction and foundation failure of the Chevron oil and gasoline tanks at Moss Landing, California, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 17, p. 1797-1800.





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