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• Deposition and sedimentation
• Sedimentary processes

• Origin and Environment of Source Sediments of Petroleum (Houston: American Petroleum Institute, c1932), by Parker D. Trask, contrib. by Harald E. Hammar and Zhaocheng Wu (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sedimentation Control to Reduce Maintenance Dredging of Navigational Facilities in Estuaries, by National Research Council Committee on Sedimentation Control to Reduce Maintenance Dredging in Estuaries (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Field Trip Guidebook on Environmental Impact of Clays Along the Upper Texas Coast (1991), by Theron D. Garcia, D. W. Ming, and L. K. Tuck (PDF with commentary at USRA Houston Repository)

• Till: A Symposium (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1971), ed. by Richard P. Goldthwait (PDF at Ohio State)

• MECA Workshop on Dust on Mars II, Hosted by Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, February 24-26, 1986 (LPI technical report 86-09; Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, 1986), ed. by Steven Wendell Lee (PDF files at USRA Houston Repository)

• Opportunities and Priorities in Arctic Geoscience (1991), by National Research Council Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Operation Hardtack, Phase II, Project 26.1: Earth Motion Measurements (Washington: Office of Technical Services, 1961), by L. M. Swift, D. C. Sachs, and W. M. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)

• Earthquake Damage and Earthquake Insurance: Studies of a Rational Basis for Earthquake Insurance; Also Studies of Engineering Data for Earthquake-Resisting Construction (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1932), by John Ripley Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Volcanoes and Earthquakes (London: R. Bentley, 1868), by Zurcher and Margollé, trans. by Winifred James Lockyer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Studies in Comparative Seismology: East African Plateaus and Rift Valleys (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #470; 1936), by Bailey Willis (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Register of Earthquakes in California, From 1800 to 1863, by John B. Trask (HTML at cdlib.org)

• The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906. Report of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission (2 volumes, 1908-10), by California State Earthquake Investigation Commission (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco on Insurance Settlements Incident to the San Francisco fire (1906), by San Francisco Chamber of Commerce (HTML at cdlib.org)
• The California Earthquake of 1906, ed. by David Starr Jordan (HTML at cdlib.org)
• The Earthquake of April 18, 1906, and the Great Fire in San Francisco on That and Succeeding Days: Personal Experiences, Inauguration of Red Cross and General Relief Work, by William W. Morrow (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Some Cities and San Francisco, and Resurgam, by Hubert Howe Bancroft (Gutenberg text)
• The Spirit of 1906, by George W. Brooks (Gutenberg text)
• The Refugees' Cook Book (San Francisco, 1906), by One of Them (page images at cdlib.org)
• Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1906), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1907), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)

• Two Days in San Francisco, 1906, by Laurence Monroe Klauber (HTML at cdlib.org)

• How the Army Worked to Save San Francisco (1906), by Henry Anderson Lafler (HTML at cdlib.org)
• San Francisco Through Earthquake and Fire (San Francisco: P. Elder and Co., c1906), by Charles Keeler
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The California Earthquake of 1906, ed. by David Starr Jordan (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Personal Experiences of the San Francisco Earthquake of April, 1906, by Melissa Stewart McKee Carnahan (page images at cdlib.org)
• The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire, ed. by Charles Morris (Gutenberg text)
• The Spirit of 1906, by George W. Brooks (Gutenberg text)
• Temporary Directory of San Francisco Business and Professional Men, Together with Directory of Municipal and State Officers, and Other Useful Information Gathered from Latest Announcements (1906) (HTML at cdlib.org)
• The Refugees' Cook Book (San Francisco, 1906), by One of Them (page images at cdlib.org)
• Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco on Insurance Settlements Incident to the San Francisco fire (1906), by San Francisco Chamber of Commerce (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1906), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1907), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)
• The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906. Report of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission (2 volumes, 1908-10), by California State Earthquake Investigation Commission (HTML at cdlib.org)

• The Earthquake: A Romance of London in 1907 (London: E. Grant Richards, 1906), by W. Holt-White (PDF at Toronto Public Library)
• The Tremendous Event (New York: Macaulay, c1922), by Maurice Leblanc, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Witness, by Margaret Johnson (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• 1842 Mil Huit Cent Quarante-deux au Cap tremblement de Terre (in French; Cap-Haïtien, Haiti: Impr. du Progrès, 1942), by D. Delorme, ed. by Jean M. Lambert (page images at Florida)

• Whisperings of the Caribbean: Reflections of a Missionary (New York et al.: Benziger Bros., 1925), by Joseph J. Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Earthquake of Juan Fernandez, as It Occurred in the Year 1835, Authenticated by The Retired Governor of That Island; To Which Is Added, a Refutation of Several Misstatements That Have Been Published In The "Nautical Magazine" of 1837, and the Public Papers (Manchester, England: Printed at the Advertiser office, 1839), by Thomas Sutcliffe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tom Swift and the Visitor From Planet X (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1961), by Victor Appleton, illust. by Graham Kaye
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio
  • page images at durendal.org
• On a Torn-Away World, or, The Captives of the Great Earthquake, by Roy Rockwood
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org
• Perils Afloat and Brigands Ashore (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1886), by Alfred Elwes, illust. by Gordon Browne (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Traveller: or, A Description of Various Wonders in Nature and Art (London: Religious Tract Society, 1839) (page images at Google)

• The Bashful Earthquake, and Other Fables and Verses (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1898), by Oliver Herford
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org
  • page images at ufl.edu

• Die Erdbeben des Indischen Archipels bis zum Jahre 1857 (in German; Amsterdam: J. Müller, 1918), by Arthur Wichmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Volcano-Seismic Crisis at Montserrat, 1933-1937 (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #512; 1939), by Frank A. Perret (page images at HathiTrust)

• Living With Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest (second edition; Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, c2004), by Robert S. Yeats (PDF at oregonstate.edu)

• Earthquakes, by Kaye M. Shedlock and Louis C. Pakiser (illustrated HTML at USGS)

• Seismological Research Requirements for a Comprehensive Test-Ban Monitoring System (1995), by National Research Council Committee on Seismology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Measurement of Blast-Induced Ground Vibrations and Seismograph Calibration (report of investigations #8506; Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1967), by Mark S. Stagg and Alvin J. Engler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Contaminated Sediments in Ports and Waterways: Cleanup Strategies and Technologies, by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

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