Alex E. Morelan
California Geological Survey
Engineering Geologist
Expertise: Tectonic Geomorphology
About Me
Publications
Brown, N. D., Argueta, M. O., Moon, S., Rhodes, E. J., Oskin, M. E., & Morelan, A. E. (2022, 09). Luminescence thermochronology reveals Late Pleistocene exhumation history near the Mill Creek strand of the San Andreas fault. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12401
Trexler, C., Morelan, A. E., DeLong, S., & Pickering, A. J. (2021, 08). Topographic expression of active faulting along the Great Valley Thrust system near Winters, northern California. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11523
Morelan, A. E., Hudnut, K. W., & Donnellan, A. (2020, 08). Quantifying fault displacement via optical image correlation using structure-from-motion orthomosaics in the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10761
Kendrick, K. J., Akciz, S. O., Angster, S. J., Avouac, J., Bachhuber, J. L., Bennett, S. E., Blake, K., Bork, S., Brooks, B. A., Burgess, P., Chupik, C., Dawson, T., DeFrisco, M. J., Delano, J., DeLong, S., Dolan, J. F., DuRoss, C. B., Ericksen, T., Frost, E., Gold, R. D., Graehl, N. A., Haddon, E. K., Hatem, A. E., Hernandez, J. L., Hitchcock, C., Hudnut, K. W., Koehler, R. D., Kozaci, O., Ladinsky, T., Madugo, C. M., Mareschal, M., McPhillips, D., Milliner, C., Morelan, A. E., Nevitt, J., Olson, B., Padilla, S. E., Patton, J. R., Philibosian, B., Pickering, A., Pierce, I., Ponti, D. J., Pridmore, C., Rosa, C., Roth, N., Scharer, K. M., Seitz, G. G., Spangler, E., Swanson, B. J., Thomas, K., Thompson Jobe, J., Treiman, J. A., Williams, A. M., & Oskin, M. E. (2019, 08). Geologic observations of surface fault rupture associated with the Ridgecrest M6.4 and M7.1 earthquake sequence by the Ridgecrest Rupture Mapping Group. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9779
Milliner, C., Donnellan, A., Chen, R., Zinke, R., Xu, X., Morelan, A. E., Dawson, T., Madugo, C. M., Dolan, J. F., Sarmiento, A., Bozorgnia, Y., & Ansar, A. (2019, 08). OR-Corr a New Outlier-Resistant Image Correlation Method: Examples of Surface Deformation and Complex Fracturing from the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence Imaged by High-resolution Optical and Radar Imagery . Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9732
Morelan, A. E., & Oskin, M. E. (2018, 08). Modal mineralogy of the continental crust and implications for fault-zone rheology: Data mining the Southern Sierra Nevada exhumed crustal section. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8753
Oskin, M. E., Behr, W. M., Morelan, A. E., Plesch, A., & Shaw, J. H. (2017, 08). Toward a Geologic Framework for the Community Rheology Model, with focus on the Mojave region. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7520
Morelan, A. E., Oskin, M. E., Chester, J. S., & Elizondo, D. F. (2016, 08). Activity of the Mill Creek and Mission Creek strands of the San Andreas fault through the San Gorgonio Pass region. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6965
Ponti, D. J., Morelan, A. E., Padilla, S. E., Oskin, M. E., Olson, B., O'Neal, M., Nevitt, J. M., Nale, S., Mongovin, D. D., Philibosian, B., Milliner, C., McPhillips, D., McDonald, J., Mareschal, M., Madugo, C. M., Leeper, R. J., Ladinsky, T., patton, j. R., Pierce, I., Koehler, R. D., Jobe, J., Zimmerman, J., Zachariasen, J., Xu, X., Williams, A. M., Vanderwal, J., Valencia, F. N., Treiman, J. A., Swanson, B. J., Pridmore, C., Spangler, E., Smith-Konter, B. R., Singleton, D. M., Seitz, G. G., Scharer, K. M., Sandwell, D. T., Roth, N., Kozaci, O., Kendrick, K. J., Blair, J., Barth, N. C., Burgess, P., Bullard, T., Brooks, B. A., Bork, S., Blake, K., Bennett, S. E., Bacon, S., Dawson, T., Bachhuber, J. L., Avouac, J., Angster, S. J., Akciz, S. O., Pickering, A., Thomas, K., Rosa, C., Chupik, C., DeFrisco, M. J., Hudnut, K. W., Graehl, N. A., Holland, P., Hitchcock, C., Hernandez, J. L., Helms, J., Hatem, A., Haddon, E. K., Gutierrez, C., Gold, R. D., Delano, J., Funning, G. J., Frost, E., Ericksen, T., DuRoss, C. B., Donnellan, A., Dolan, J. F., DeLong, S., & Zinke, R. (2020). Documentation of Surface Fault Rupture and Ground-Deformation Features Produced by the 4 and 5 July 2019 Mw 6.4 and Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence. Seismological Research Letters, 91(5), 2942-2959. doi: 10.1785/0220190322. SCEC Contribution 10852
DuRoss, C. B., Gold, R. D., Dawson, T., Scharer, K. M., Kendrick, K. J., Akciz, S. O., Angster, S. J., Bachhuber, J. L., Bacon, S., Bennett, S. E., Blair, L., Brooks, B. A., Bullard, T., Burgess, W. P., Chupik, C., DeFrisco, M. J., Delano, J., Dolan, J. F., Frost, E., Graehl, N. A., Haddon, E. K., Hatem, A., Hernandez, J. L., Hitchcock, C., Hudnut, K. W., Thompson Jobe, J., Koehler, R. D., Kozaci, O., Ladinsky, T., Madugo, C. M., McPhillips, D., Milliner, C., Morelan, A. E., Olson, B., patton, j. R., Philibosian, B., Pickering, A., Pierce, I., Ponti, D. J., Seitz, G. G., Spangler, E., Swanson, B. J., Thomas, K., Treiman, J. A., Valencia, F. N., Williams, A. M., & Zinke, R. (2020). Surface Displacement Distributions for the July 2019 Ridgecrest, California, Earthquake Ruptures. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 110(4), 1400-1418. doi: 10.1785/0120200058. SCEC Contribution 10110
Last updated Sep 08, 2022.
