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The outside world scarcely knew of north-western North America in the year 1700. The Pacific coast, from south-central Alaska to Oregon's Cape Blanco, was uncharted until the Spanish and English explorations of the 1770s. Yet, when tectonic plates suddenly shifted there in 1700, a train of ocean waves - a tsunami - sped across the Pacific Ocean. When the waves came ashore in Japan, they flooded fields and washed away houses. Samurai, merchants, and villagers recorded the mysterious event, but they observed no storm and felt no parent earthquake. In Japan, this tsunami was an orphan. "The Orphan Tsunami of 1700" tells this transpacific detective story by presenting its primary sources, Japanese documents and North American sediments and tree rings. They tell of a catastrophe, a century before Lewis and Clark's expedition, that now guides preparations for future earthquakes and tsunamis in the North Pacific. A rich array of graphic detail and narrative explains the creation, action, and lasting effects of earthquakes and tsunamis.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Evolution and dynamics of the Australian plate / R.R. Hillis and R.D. Müller
• Seismic structure in the mantle beneath Australia / B.L.N. Kennett
• Surface-wave studies of the Australian region / E. Debayle and B.L.N. Kennett
• Is the Australian plate deforming? A space geodetic perspective / P. Tregoning
• In situ stress field of Australia / R.R. Hillis and S.D. Reynolds
• Influences of plate-boundary forces on the regional intraplate stress field of continental Australia / S.D. Reynolds, D.D. Coblentz, and R.R. Hillis
• Three-dimensional finite-element modelling of the tectonic stress field in continental Australia / S. Zhao and R.D. Müller
• Principal stress orientations from multiple focal-plane solutions: new insight into the Australian intraplate stress field / D. Clark and M. Leonard
• Neotectonics of southeastern Australia: linking the quaternary faulting record with seismicity and in situ stress / M. Sandiford
• Crustal thickness patterns in the Australian continent / C.D.N. Collins, B.J. Drummond, and M. G. Nicoll
• Potential-field datasets for the Australian region: their significance in mapping basement architecture / P.R. Milligan, P. Petkovic, and B.J. Drummond
• Carpentaria electrical conductivity anomaly, Queensland, as a major structure in the Australian plate / F.E.M. Lilley ... [et al.]
• The hot southern continent: heat flow and heat production in Australian proterozoic terranes / S. McLaren ... [et al.]
• Inferences on Australia's heat flow and thermal structure from mantle convection modelling results / C. O'Neill ... [et al.]
• Lithosphere structure and evolution in southeastern Australia / O.F. Gaul, S.Y. O'Reilly, and W.L. Griffin
• 'Boomerang' migratory intraplate Cenozoic volcanism, eastern Australian rift margins and the Indian-Pacific mantle boundary / F.L. Sutherland
• Formation and evolution of Australian passive margins: implications for locating the boundary between continental and oceanic crust / B.J. Brown ... [et al.]
• Resolving multiple rift phases by strain-rate inversion in the petrel sub-basin, northwest Australia / S. Baldwin, N. White, and R.D. M Müller
• Mesozoic-Cenozoic evolution of Australia's New Guinea margin in a west Pacific context / K.C. Hill and R. Hall
• Collision tectonics of northern Papua New Guinea: key field relationships demand a new model / R.H. Findlay
• Sumba and its effect on Australia's northwestern margin / M. Keep, I. Longley, and R. Jones
• Earth-science datasets for the Australian continent online: the AGCRC, map-maker, open GIS and beyond / S.J.D. Cox
• Early to middle Miocene Pacific-Australia plate boundary in New Zealand: an alternative transcurrent-fault system / R.J. Musgrave
• Tectonic evolution of the southwest Pacific using constraints from Backarc basins / M. Sdrolias, R.D. Müller, and C. Gaina
• Mantle structure and tectonic evolution of the region north and east of Australia / R. Hall and W. Spakman
• 120 to 0 Ma tectonic evolution of the southwest pacific and analogous geological evolution of the 600 to 220 Ma Tasman fold belt system / A.J. Crawford, S. Meffre, and P.A. Symonds
• Microcontinent formation around Australia / C. Gaina ... [et al.]
• Origin of the Australian-Antarctic discordance from an ancient slab and mantle wedge / M. Gurnis and R.D. Müller.