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Portland State University

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2014

Cascadia Subduction Zone

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Large-Scale Fluidization Features From Late Holocene Coseismic Paleoliquefaction In The Willamette River Forearc Valley, Central Cascadia Subduction Zone, Oregon, Usa, Curt D. Peterson, Kurt Kristensen, Rick Minor Jan 2014

Large-Scale Fluidization Features From Late Holocene Coseismic Paleoliquefaction In The Willamette River Forearc Valley, Central Cascadia Subduction Zone, Oregon, Usa, Curt D. Peterson, Kurt Kristensen, Rick Minor

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A search of Willamette River cutbanks was conducted for the presence of late Holocene paleoli-quefaction records in the Willamette forearc valley, located 175 ± 25 km landward from the buried trench in the central Cascadia subduction zone. A search of Willamette River cutbanks was conducted for the presence of late Holocene paleoli-quefaction records in the Willamette forearc valley, located 175 ± 25 km landward from the buried trench in the central Cascadia subduction zone. Eight cutbank sites are reported that show evidence of large-scale fluidization features (≥10 cm width) including clastic sand dikes and intruded sand sills in Holocene overbank …