Publications
Harrichhausen, N.*, Finley, T., Morell, K., Regalla, C., Bennett, S., Leonard, L., Nissen, E., McLeod, E., Lynch, E., Salomon, G., Sethanant, (2023) Discovery of an Active Forearc Fault in an Urban Region: Holocene Rupture on the XEOLXELEK-Elk Lake Fault, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Tectonics, 42(11) https://doi.org/10.1029/2023TC008170.
Rajič, K., Raimbourg, H., Famin, V., Moris-Muttoni, B., Fisher, D. M., Morell, K. D., & Canizarés, A. (2023). Exhuming an accretionary prism: A case study of the Kodiak accretionary complex, Alaska, USA. Tectonics, 42, e2023TC007754. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023TC007754.
Penserini, B.*, Morell, K., Codilean, A., Fülöp, R. Wilcken, R., Yanites, B., Kumar, A., Fan, S. Ahmad, T., Mearce, T. (2023), Magnitude and Timing of Transient Incision Resulting from Large-Scale Drainage Capture, Sutlej River, Northwest Himalaya, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5705.
Harrichhausen N.*, Morell, K., Regalla, C., Leonard, L., (2022) Eocene terrane accretion in northern Cascadia recorded by brittle left-lateral slip on the San Juan fault, Tectonics, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022TC007317.
Huang, M., Morell, K., Duvall, A., Gallen, S., Hilley, G., (2022) Exploring Subduction Zone Geohazards on Land and at Sea, Eos, 103, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EO220159. Published on 25 March 2022.
Morel, D.*, Morell, K.D., Keller, E., and Rittenour, T., (2022) Quaternary chronology and rock uplift recorded by marine terraces, Gaviota Coast, Santa Barbara County, CA, USA, GSA Bulletin, 134(3-4), pp.871-884., https://doi.org/10.1130/B35609.1.
Morell, K. Alessio, P.*, Dunne, T, and Keller, E. (2021) Sediment recruitment and redistribution in mountain channel networks by post-wildfire debris flows, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 48, e2021GL095549, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095549.
Alessio, P. *, Dunne, T., and Morell, K., (2021) Post-wildfire Generation of Debris-flow Slurry by Rill Erosion on Colluvial Hillslopes, Journal of Geophysical Research — Earth Surface, v. 126, no. 11, e2021JF006108, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JF006108.
Raimbourg, H., Rajica, K., Famin, V. Moris‐Muttonia, B., Palazzin, Fisher D., Morell, K., Erdmann, S., Carloa, I., Montmartin, C. (2021) Quartz vein geochemistry records deformation processes in convergent zones, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009201.
Harrichhausen, N.*, Morell, K.D., Regalla, C., Bennett, S., Leonard, L., Lynch, E. (2021) Paleoseismic trenching reveals late Quaternary kinematics of the Leech River fault: Implications for forearc strain accumulation in northern Cascadia, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. LINK.
Morell, K.D., Styron, R., Stirling, M., Griffin, J., Archuleta, R., Onur, T. (2020) Seismic hazard analyses from geologic and geomorphic data: Current and future challenges, Invited review paper in Tectonics, v. 39, e2018TC005365. LINK.
Srivastava, P., Kumar, A., Sen, K., Morell, K.D., Hazarika D. (2020) Evidence for late Quaternary brittle deformation and back thrusting within the Indus basin, Ladakh Himalaya, Tectonophysics. LINK.
Keller, E., Alessio, P., Anderson, S., Goto, E., Gurrola, L. Gray, S., Morell, K.D., (2020), Applications in Geomorphology, Geomorphology, LINK.
Morell, K.D., Fisher, D.M., and Bangs, N., (2019), Plio-Quaternary outer forearc deformation and mass balance of the southern Costa Rica convergent margin, JGR-Solid Earth, v. 124. LINK.
Finley, T.*, Morell, K.D., Leonard, L. Regalla, C., Johnston, S.T., and Zhang, W.*, (2019), Ongoing Oroclinal bending in the Cascadia forearc, and its relation to concave-outboard plate margin geometry, Geology, vol. 47, no 2, p. 155-158, doi: 10.1130/G45473.1. LINK
Morell, K. D., Regalla, C., Amos, C., Bennett, S., Leonard, L., Graham, A*, Reedy, T., Levson, V., and Telka, A., (2018), Holocene surface rupture history of an active forearc fault redefines seismic hazard in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 45, no. 21, doi: 10.1029/2018gl078711. LINK
Boggs, K.J.E., Aster, R.C., Audet, P. , G. Brunet, Clowes, R.M., de Groot-Hedlin, C.D., Donovan, E., Eaton, D.W., Elliott, J., Freymueller, J.T., Hedlin, M.A.H., Hyndman, R.D., James, T., Kushner, P.J., Morell, K.D., Rowe, C.D., Schutt, D.L., Sideris, M.G., Ulmi, M., Vernon, F.L. and West, N. (2018) EON-ROSE and the Canadian Cordillera Array - Building Bridges to Span Earth System Science in Canada, Geoscience Canada, v. 45, no. 2. LINK
Li, G., Liu, Y., Regalla, C. and Morell, K. D., (2018) Seismicity relocation and fault structure near the Leech River Fault Zone, southern Vancouver Island, Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, v. 123, doi: 10.1002/2017JB015021. LINK
Morell, K. D., Sandiford, M., Kohn, B., Codilean, A., Folup, R.-H., and Ahmad, T., (2017) Current strain accumulation in the hinterland of the northwest Himalaya constrained by landscape analyses, basin-wide denudation rates, and low temperature thermochronology, Tectonophysics, v. 721, no. 28, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2017.09.007. LINK
Morell, K. D., Regalla, C., Leonard, L., Amos, C., and Levson, V., (2017) Quaternary rupture of a crustal fault beneath Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, GSA Today, v. 27, no. 3. LINK
Morell, K. D., (2016) Seamount, ridge and transform subduction in southern Central America, Tectonics, v. 35, no. 2, doi: 10.1002/2015TC003950, LINK.
Rajendran, C. P., Sanwal, J., Morell, K. D., Sandiford, M., Kotlia, B., and Rajendran, K., (2016) Stalagmite growth perturbations from the Kumaun Himalaya as potential earthquake recorders, Journal of Seismology, doi: 10.1007/s10950-015-9545-5. LINK
Rooney, T., Morell, K. D., Hidalgo, P. J., and Franceschi, P., (2015) Magmatic consequences of the transition from orthogonal to oblique subduction in Panama, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 16, p. 4178–420, doi: 10.1002/2015GC006150. LINK
Morell, K. D., (2015) Late Miocene to Recent plate tectonic history of the southern Central America convergent margin, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 16, no. 10, doi: 10.1002/2015GC005971. LINK
Morell, K. D., Sandiford, M., Rajendran, C. P., Rajendran, K., Alimanovic, A., Fink, D., and Sanwal, J., (2015) Geomorphology reveals active décollement geometry in the central Himalayan seismic gap, Lithosphere, v. 7, no. 3, doi:10.1130/L407.1. LINK
Morell, K. D., Gardner, T. W., Fisher, D. M., Idleman, B., and Zellner, H., (2013) Active thrusting, landscape evolution and late Pleistocene sector collapse of Barú Volcano above the Cocos-Nazca slab tear, southern Central America, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 125, no. 7-8, doi: 10.1130/B30771.1. LINK
Gardner, T. W., Fisher, D. M., Morell, K. D., and Cupper, M., (2013) Upper-plate deformation in response to flat slab subduction inboard of the aseismic Cocos Ridge, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, Lithosphere, v. 5., no. 3, doi:10.1130/L251.1. LINK
Morell, K. D., Kirby, E., Fisher, D. M., and van Soest, M., (2012) Geomorphic and exhumational response of the Central American Volcanic Arc to Cocos Ridge subduction, Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, v. 117, B04409, doi:10.1029/2011JB008969. LINK
Morell, K. D., Fisher, D. M., Gardner, T. W., La Femina, P., Davidson, D., and Teletzke, A., (2011) Quaternary outer forearc deformation and uplift inboard of the Panama Triple Junction, Burica Peninsula, Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, v. 116, B05402, doi:10.1029/2010JB007979. LINK
Morell, K. D., Fisher, D. M., and Gardner, T. W., (2008) Inner Forearc Response to subduction of the Panama Fracture Zone, southern Central America, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 265, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.09.039. LINK
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