Pilarczyk JE, Sawai Y, Matsumoto D, Namegaya Y, Nishida N, Ikehara K, Fujiwara O, Gouramanis C, Dura T, Horton B.  2020.  Constraining sediment provenance for tsunami deposits using distributions of grain size and foraminifera from the Kujukuri coastline and shelf, Japan. Sedimentology. 67(3):1373-1392.

Nelson AR, Hawkes AD, Sawai Y, Engelhart SE, Witter R, Grant-Walter WC, Bradley L-A, Dura T, Cahill N, Horton B.  2020.  Identifying the Greatest Earthquakes of the Past 2000 Years at the Nehalem River Estuary, Northern Oregon Coast, USA. Open Quaternary. 6(1):2.

Dura T, Hemphill-Haley E, Sawai Y, Horton B.  2016.  The application of diatoms to reconstruct the history of subduction zone earthquakes and tsunamis. Earth-Science Reviews. 152:181-197.

Sawai Y, Horton B, Kemp AC, Hawkes AD, Nagumo T, Nelson AR.  2016.  Relationships between diatoms and tidal environments in Oregon and Washington, USA. Diatom Research. 31(1):17-38.

Pilarczyk JE, Dura T, Horton B, Engelhart SE, Kemp AC, Sawai Y.  2014.  Microfossils from coastal environments as indicators of paleoearthquakes, tsunamis, and storm. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 413:144-157.

Horton B, Engelhart SE, Kemp AC, Sawai Y, Shroder JF, Switzer AD.  2013.  Microfossils in Tidal Settings as Indicators of Sea-Level Change, Paleoearthquakes, Tsunamis, and Tropical Cyclones. Treatise on Geomorphology. 14:292-314.

Hawkes AD, Horton B, Nelson AR, Vane CH, Sawai Y.  2011.  Coastal subsidence in Oregon, USA, during the giant Cascadia Earthquake of AD 1700. Quaternary Science Reviews. 30(3-4):364-376.

Horton B, Sawai Y, Hawkes AD, Witter RC.  2011.  Sedimentology and paleontology of a tsunami deposit accompanying the great Chilean earthquake of February 2010. Marine Micropaleontology. 79(3-4):132-138.

Horton B, Sawai Y, Smol JP, Stoermer EF.  2010.   Diatoms as indicators of former sea levels, earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes. The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences. 2nd edition. :357-372.

Nelson AR, Sawai Y, Jennings AE, Bradley L-A, Gerson L, Sherrod BL, Sabean J, Horton B.  2008.  Great-earthquake paleogeodesy and tsunamis of the past 2000 years at Alsea Bay, central Oregon coast, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews. 27(7-8):747-768.

Sawai Y, Horton B, Nagumo T.  2004.  The development of a diatom-based transfer function along the Pacific coast of eastern Hokkaido, northern Japan—an aid in paleoseismic studies of the Kuril subduction zone. Quaternary Science Reviews. 23(23-24):2467-2484.

Sawai Y, Satake K, Kamataki T, Nasu H, Shishikura M, Atwater BF, Horton B, Kelsey HM, Nagumo T, Yamaguchi M.  2004.  Transient uplift after a 17th-century earthquake along the Kuril trench. Science. 306:1918-1920.