Repeated Large-Magnitude Earthquakes in the Marianna Area of East-Central Arkansas During the Middle-Early Holocene and Possibly the Late Pleistocene

Seismological Research Letters 2026

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Authors: Martitia P. Tuttle, Haydar Al-Shukri, Hanan Mahdi, Rauf Hussein, Taher H. Ameen, Steven L. Forman, Kathleen Dyer‐Williams, Kathleen Tucker, Martha Kopper, Muntadher M. Al-Kaabi, Okba R. Al-Qadhi
DOI: 10.1785/0220250324
Cited by: 1
References: 22

Abstract

Abstract Very large, weathered sand blows and related sand dikes in the Marianna area indicate that large earthquakes were centered there in the past. Radiocarbon (C14) and optically stimulated luminescence dating suggest that the liquefaction features formed during paleoearthquakes about 4.7, 5.4, 6.8, and 9.8 thousand years ago (ka) and possibly during two earlier events about

Fields of Study & Subjects

earthquake and tectonic studies Geological formations and processes Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics

Publication details

Journal / source
Seismological Research Letters
Publisher
Seismological Society of America (SSA)
Volume
97
Issue
2A
Pages
715–729
Publication date
14 January 2026
Language
EN