Daniel Melnick - Publications
2024
95. Araya-Cornejo, C., Carvajal, M., Melnick, D., Moernaut, J., Araya, C., and González, F., 2024, River-damming landslides during the 1960 Chile earthquake (M9.5) and earlier events: implications for risk assessment in the San Pedro River basin: Natural Hazards.
94. Erbello, A., Colleps, C., Melnick, D., Sobel, E. R., Bookhagen, B., Pingel, H., Zeilinger, G., van der Beek, P., and Strecker, M. R., 2024, Magma-Assisted Continental Rifting: The Broadly Rifted Zone in SW Ethiopia, East Africa: Tectonics, v. 43, no. 1, p. e2022TC007651.
2023
93. de Blas, J. M., Iaffaldano, G., Tassara, A., and Melnick, D., 2023, Feedback between megathrust earthquake cycle and plate convergence: Scientific Reports, v. 13, p. 18623. pdf
92. Freisleben, R., Jara-Muñoz, J. Melnick, D., Molina, D., Tassara, A., van der Beek, P., Strecker, M., 2023, Deciphering permanent uplift along the Pacific coast of South America through signal analysis of various tectonic processes: Tectonics, v. 42, e2023TC007815.
91. González-Vidal, D., Moreno, M., Sippl, C., Baez, J. C., Ortega-Culaciati, F., Lange, D., Tilmann, F., Socquet, A., Bolte, J., Hormazabal, J., Langlais, M., Morales-Yáñez, C., Melnick, D., Benavente, R., Münchmeyer, J., Araya, R., and Heit, B., 2023, Relation Between Oceanic Plate Structure, Patterns of Interplate Locking and Microseismicity in the 1922 Atacama Seismic Gap: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 50, no. 15, p. e2023GL103565.
90. Aedo, D., Cisternas, M., Melnick, D., Esparza, C., Winckler, P., and Saldaña, B., Decadal coastal evolution spanning the 2010 Maule earthquake at Isla Santa Maria, Chile: Framing Darwin’s accounts of uplift over a seismic cycle: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, p. 1-15. doi.org/10.1002/esp.5615.
89. Astudillo-Sotomayor, L., Cortés-Aranda, J., Melnick, D., Jara-Muñoz, J., Cabello, C., Perucca, L., Tassara, A., Pérez-Peña, J. V., and León-Ibáñez, P., 2022, Neotectonic faults in the Southern Chile intra-arc (38°S–40.5°S): Insights about their seismic potential and the link with the megathrust earthquake cycle: Tectonophysics, p. 229675.
2022
88. Martínez, C., Lara, L., Belmonte, A., Carvajal, M., Araya, Ch., Moreno, M., Melnick, D., Hernández, M., 2022, Bases geomorfológicas de la costa de Chile, in Martínez, C., Cienfuegos, R., Barragán, J.M., Navarrete, S., Hidalgo, R., Arenas., F., Fuentes, L., Hacia una Ley de Costas en Chile: bases para una Gestión integrada de Áreas Costera: GEOlibros, v. 38, Universidad Católica de Chile.
87. Melnick, D., 2022, Coseismic Displacement of 1987 Earthquake from Aerial Images: Eos, Editor Highlight.
86. Jara-Muñoz, J., Melnick, D., Li, S., Socquet, A., Cortés-Aranda, J., Brill, D., and Strecker, M. R., 2022, The cryptic seismic potential of the Pichilemu blind fault in Chile revealed by off-fault geomorphology: Nature Communications. v. 13, 3371. pdf
85. Matos-Llavona, P., Ely, L., MacInnes, B., Dura, T., Cisternas, M., Bourgeois, J., Bruce, D., DePaolis, J., Dolcimascolo, A., Horton, B., Melnick, D., Nelson, A., Szeliga, W., and Wesson, R., 2022, The giant 1960 tsunami in the context of a 6000-year record of paleotsunamis and coastal evolution in south-central Chile: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. p. 1-17. pdf
84. Riedl, S., Melnick, D., Njue, L., Sudo, M., and Strecker, M. R., 2022, Mid-Pleistocene to recent crustal extension in the inner graben of the Northern Kenya Rift: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. v. 23, p. e2021GC010123.
83. Erbello, A., Melnick, D., Zeilinger, G., Bookhagen, B., Pingel, H., and Strecker, M. R., 2022, Geomorphic expression of a tectonically active rift transfer zone in Southern Ethiopia: Geomorphology. v. 403, p. 108162.
82. Acuña, F., Montalva, G., and Melnick, D., 2022, How Good Is A Paleoseismic Record of Megathrust Earthquakes for Probabilistic Forecasting?: Seismological Research Letters. v. 93, p. 739-748. pdf
81. Wirth, E., Sahakian, V., Wallace, L. M., and Melnick, D., 2022, The Occurrence and Hazards of Great Subduction Zone Earthquakes: Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. v. 3, p. 125-140. pdf
2021
80. Hocking, E., Garrett, E., Aedo, D., Carvajal, M., and Melnick, D., 2021, Geological evidence of an unreported historical Chilean tsunami reveals more frequent inundation: Communications Earth & Environment. v. 2, p. 245. pdf
79. Molina, D., Tassara, A., Melnick, D., Abarca, R., and Madella, A., 2021, Frictional Segmentation of the Chilean Megathrust from a Multivariate Analysis of Geophysical, Geological and Geodetic Data: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. v. 126, e2020JB020647. pdf
78. Brader, M., Garrett, E., Melnick, D., and Shennan, I., 2021, Sensitivity of tidal marshes as recorders of major earthquakes: constraints from the 25th December 2016 Mw 7.6 Chiloé earthquake, Chile: Journal of Quaternary Sciences. v. 36, p. 991-1002. pdf
77. Freisenleben, R., Jara-Muñoz, J., Melnick, D., Martínez, J. M., and Strecker, M. R., 2021, Marine terraces of the last interglacial period along the Pacific coast of South America (1°N-40°S): Earth System Science Data: WALIS - the World Atlas of Last Interglacial Shorelines, v. 13, p. 2487-2021, https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/13/2487/2021/
76. Melnick, D., 2021, Unrushed Megathrusts: Nature Geoscience, v. 14. p. 260–261. pdf
75. Astudillo, L., Jara-Muñoz, J., Melnick, D., Cortés-Aranda, J., Tassara, A., and Strecker, M. R., 2021, Fast Holocene slip and localized strain along the Liquiñe-Ofqui strike-slip fault system, Chile: Scientific Reports., v. 11, p. 5970. pdf
74. Peña, C., Heidbach, O., Moreno, M., Melnick, D., and Oncken, O., 2021, Transient Deformation and Stress Patterns Induced by the 2010 Maule Earthquake in the Illapel Segment: Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 9, p. 664834. pdf
73. Maldonado, V., Contreras, M., and Melnick, D., 2021, A comprehensive database of active and potentially-active continental faults in Chile at 1:25,000 scale: Scientific Data, v. 8, p. 20. pdf
72. Aedo, D., Melnick, D., Garrett, E., Pino, M., 2021, Source and distribution of tsunami deposits at Chaihuín marsh (40°S/73.5°W), Chile: Andean Geology, v. 48, p. 125-152. pdf
2020
71. Carvajal, M., and Melnick, D., 2020, Fuentes de Sismicidad en Chile, in Borsdorf, A., Marchant, C., Rovira, A., and Sánchez, R., eds., Chile cambiando. Revisitando la geografía regional de Wolfgang Weischet: GEOlibros, v. 36, Universidad Catolica de Chile.
70. Racano, S., Jara-Muñoz, J., Cosentino, D., and Melnick, D., 2020, Variable Quaternary uplift along the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau inferred from modeling marine terrace sequences: Tectonics, v. 39, e2019TC005921. pdf
69. Garrett, E., Melnick, D., Dura, T., Cisternas, M., Ely, L., Wesson, R., Jara-Muñoz, J., and Whitehouse, P., 2020, Holocene relative sea-level change in northern, central and south-central Chile: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 236, p. 106281. pdf
68. de Gelder, G., Jara-Muñoz, J., Melnick, D., Fernández-Blanco, D., Rouby, H., Pedoja, K., Husson, L., Armijo, R., and Lacassin, R., 2020, How do sea-level curves influence modeled marine terrace sequences?: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 229, p. 106132. pdf
67. Riedl, S., D. Melnick, G. Mibei, L. Njue, and M. R. Strecker, 2020, Continental rifting at magmatic centres: structural implications from Late Quaternary Menengai Caldera, central Kenya Rift, Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 177, p. 153-169. pdf
2019
66. Jara-Muñoz, J., Melnick, D., Strecker, M.R., Pedoja, K., 2019. TerraceM-2: a MATLAB interface to map and model marine and lacustrine terraces, Frontiers in Earth Science , v. 7, n. 255, doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00255.
65. Melnick, D., Hillemann, C., Jara-Muñoz, J., Garrett, E., Cortés-Aranda, J., Molina, D., Tassara, A., and Strecker, M. R., 2019, Hidden Holocene Slip Along the Coastal El Yolki Fault in Central Chile and Its Possible Link With Megathrust Earthquakes: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, v. 124, no. 7, p. 7280-7302.
64. Carvajal, M., C. Araya-Cornejo, I. Sepúlveda, D. Melnick, and J. S. Haase Nearly-instantaneous tsunamis following the Mw 7.5 2018 Palu earthquake, Geophysical Research Letters, v 46, p. gl082578. pdf, Highlight in Nature and EOS
63. G. de Gelder, D. Fernández-Blanco, D. Melnick, G. Duclaux, R. Bell, J. Jara-Muñoz, R. Armijo and R. Lacassin, 2019, Lithospheric flexure and rheology determined by climate cycle markers in the Corinth Rift, Scientific Reports, v. 9, p. 4260. pdf
62. Moernaut, J., Van Daele, M., Heirman, K., Wiemer, G., Molenaar, A., Vandorpe, T., Melnick, D., Hajdas, I., Pino, M., Urrutia, R., and De Batist, M., 2019, The subaqueous landslide cycle in south-central Chilean lakes: The role of tephra, slope gradient and repeated seismic shaking, Sedimentary Geology, v. 381, p. 84-105. pdf
61. Mazzorana, B., L. Picco, R. Rainato, A. Iroumé, V. Ruiz-Villanueva, C. Rojas, G. Valdebenito, P. Iribarren-Anacona, and D. Melnick, 2019, Cascading processes in a changing environment: Disturbances on fluvial ecosystems in Chile and implications for hazard and risk management, Science of The Total Environment, v. 655, p. 1089-1103, pdf
2018
60. Garrett, E., Brader, M., Melnick, D., Bedford, J., and Aedo, D., 2018, First Field Evidence of Coseismic Land-Level Change Associated with the 25 December 2016 Mw 7.6 Chiloé, Chile, Earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
59. Melnick, D., S. Li, M. Moreno, M. Cisternas, J. Jara-Muñoz, R. L. Wesson, A. Nelson, J.-C. Báez, and Z. Deng, 2018, Back to full interseismic plate locking decades after the giant 1960 Chile earthquake, Nature Communications, v. 9, p. 3527. pdf
58. Jaramillo, E., Duarte, C., Labra, F.A., Lagos, N.A., Peruzzo, B., Silva, R., Velasquez, C., Manzano, M., Melnick, D., 2018. Resilience of an aquatic macrophyte to an anthropogenically induced environmental stressor in a Ramsar wetland of southern Chile. Ambio, v. pdf
57. Moreno, M., Li, S., Melnick, D., Bedford, J.R., Baez, J.C., Motagh, M., Metzger, S., Vajedian, S., Sippl, C., Gutknecht, B.D., Contreras-Reyes, E., Deng, Z., Tassara, A., Oncken, O., 2018. Chilean megathrust earthquake recurrence linked to frictional contrast at depth. Nature Geoscience, v. 11, p. 285-290. pdf
56. Jaramillo, E., N. A. Lagos, F. A. Labra, E. Paredes, E. Acuña, D. Melnick, M. Manzano, C. Velásquez, and C. Duarte, 2018, Recovery of black-necked swans, macrophytes and water quality in a Ramsar wetland of southern Chile: Assessing resilience following sudden anthropogenic disturbances, Science of The Total Environment, v. 628–629, p. 291-301, pdf
2017
55. Ruiz, S., M. Moreno, D. Melnick, F. del Campo, P. Poli, J.-C. Baez, F. Leyton, and R. Madariaga, 2017, Reawakening of large earthquakes in South-Central Chile: The 2016 Mw7.6 Chiloé event, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 44, p. 6633-6640. pdf
54. Jara-Muñoz, J., Melnick, D., Zambrano, P., Rietbrock, A., Gonzalez, J., Argandoña, B., Strecker, M.R., 2017, Quantifying offshore forearc deformation and splay-fault slip using drowned Pleistocene shorelines, Arauco Bay, Chile, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 122, p. 4529-4558. pdf
53. Melnick, D., Yildirim, C., Hilemann, C., Garcin, Y., Çiner, A., Pérez-Gussinyé, M. & Strecker, M.R., 2017, Slip along the Sultanhanı Fault in Central Anatolia from deformed Pleistocene shorelines of palaeo-lake Konya and implications for seismic hazards in low-strain regions, Geophysical Journal International, v. 209, p. 1431-1454. pdf
52. Jaramillo, E., D. Melnick, J.-C. Báez, H. Montecino, N. Lagos, E. Acuña, M. Manzano, and P. Camus, 2017, Calibrating coseismic land-level changes using leveling, GPS and intertidal biota for the 2014 Iquique (Mw=8.2) earthquake (northern Chile). PLoS ONE, v. 12, p. e0174348. pdf
51. Li, S., Moreno, M., Bedford, J., Rosenau, M., Heidbach, O., Melnick, D. and Oncken, O., 2017, Postseismic uplift of the Andes following the 2010 Maule earthquake: implications for mantle rehology, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 44, p. 1768-1776. pdf
50. Melnick, D., M. Moreno, J. Quinteros, J.-C. Báez, S. Li, Z. Deng, S. Li, and O. Oncken, 2017, The super-interseismic phase of the megathrust earthquake cycle in Chile, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 44, p. 784-791. pdf Highlight by J. Loveless. pdf EOS Research Spotlight.
49. Garcin, Y., Schildgen, T.F., Torres-Acosta, V., Melnick, D., Guillemoteau, J., Willenbring, J., Strecker, M.R., 2017. Increased eroison during the African Humid Period: evidence from the northern Kenya Rift. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 459, p. 68-59. pdf
2016
48. Georgieva, V., Melnick, D., Schildgen, T.F., Ehlers, T.A., Lagabrielle, Y., Enkelmann, E., Strecker, M.R., 2016. Tectonic control on rock uplift and topography above oceanic-ridge collision - Southern Patagonian Andes (47°S), Chile. Tectonics, v. 35. p. 1317-1341. pdf
47. Melnick, D. 2016. Rise of the central Andean coast by earthquakes straddling the Moho. Nature Geoscience, v. 9, n. 5, 401-407. pdf , News&View by R. Briggs. pdf
46. Jara-Muñoz, J., Melnick, D., and Strecker, M.R., 2016. TerraceM: a MATLAB tool to analyse marine and lacustrine terraces using high-resolution topography: Geosphere, v.12, p. 1-20. pdf , codes available at: www.terracem.com
2015
45. De Gelder, G., D. Fernandez-Blanco, R. Lacassin, R. Armijo, A. Delorme, J. Jara-Muñoz, and D. Melnick, 2015, Corinth terraces revisited: Improved paleoshoreline determination using Pleiades-DEM, Geotectonic Research, 97, 12-14. pdf
44. Bernhardt, A., Melnick, D., Jara-Muñoz, J., Argandoña, B., and González, J., 2015. Differential development of the BioBío canyon and its tributary, offshore Chile: Implications for the controls of canyon activity during sealevel highstand: Geosphere, v. 11, p. 1-31. pdf
43. Wesson, R., Melnick, D., Cisternas, M., Moreno, M., and Ely, L., 2015. Vertical crustal movements during a complete seismic cycle at Isla Santa María, Chile: Nature Geoscience, v. 8, p. 547-551. pdf News&View by A. Meltzner. pdf - Highlight in Science pdf
42. Bernhardt, A., Melnick, D., Hebbeln, D., Luckge, A., Strecker, M.R., 2015. Turbidite paleoseismology along the Chilean continental margin – feasible or not?: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 120, p. 71-92. pdf
41. Rodil, I., Jaramillo, E., Hubbard, D. M., Dugan, J. E., Melnick, D., and Velasquez, C., 2015. Responses of dune plant communities to continental uplift from a major earthquake: sudden releases from coastal squeeze: PLoS ONE, v. 10, p. e0124334. pdf
40. Jara-Muñoz, J., Melnick, D., Brill, D., Strecker, M.R., 2015. Segmentation of the 2010 Maule Chile earthquake rupture from a joint analysis of uplifted marine terraces and seismic-cycle deformation patterns. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 113, p. 171-192. pdf
39. Jara-Muñoz, J. and Melnick, D., 2015. Unraveling sea-level variations and tectonic uplift in wave-built marine terraces, Santa María Island, Chile: Quaternary Research, v. 83, pp. 216-228. pdf
2014
38. Blanco-Chao, R., Pedoja, K., Witt, C., Martinod, J., Husson, L., Regard, V., Audin, L., Nexer, M., Delcaillau, B., Saillard, M., Melnick, D., Dumont, J.F., Santana, E., Navarrete, E., Martillo, C., Pappalardo, M., Ayala, L., Araya, J.F., Feal-Perez, A., Correa, D., Arozarena-Llopis, I., 2014. The rock coast of South and Central America, In: Kennedy, D.M., Stephenson, W.J., Naylor, L. (Eds.), Rock Coast Geomorphology: A Global Synthesis. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, London, v. 40, pp. 153-189. pdf
37. Pedoja, K., Husson, L., Johnson, M., Melnick, D., Witt, C., Pochat, S., Nexer, M., Delcaillau, B., Pinegina, T., Poprawski, Y., Authemayou, C., Elliot, M., Regard, V., Garestier, F., 2014. Coastal staircase sequences reflecting sea-level oscillations and tectonic uplift during the Quaternary and Neogene: Earth Science Reviews, v. 132, p. 13-38. pdf
36. Li, S., Moreno, M., Rosenau, M., Melnick, D., Oncken, O., 2014, Splay fault triggering by great subduction earthquakes inferred from finite element models, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 41, p. 385-391. pdf
2013
35. Melnick, D., Moreno, M., Motagh, M., Cisternas, M., and Wesson, R. L., 2013, Splay fault slip during the M w 8.8 2010 Maule Chile earthquake: REPLY to comment by Allmendinger et al.: Geology, v. 41, no. 12, p. e310. pdf
34. Yildirim, C., Melnick, D., Ballato, P., Schildgen, T. F., Echtler, H., A., E., Gunec, K., and Strecker, M. R.,2013, Late Pleistocene coastal uplift along the northern margin of the central Anatolian plateau: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 81, p. 12-28. pdf
33. Yildirim, C., Schildgen, T.F., Echtler, H., Melnick, D., Bookhagen, B., Çiner, A., Niederman, S., Merchel, S., Martschini, M., Steier, P., and Strecker, M.R., 2013, Tectonic and climatic implications of fluvial incision at the northern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau based on multiple cosmogenic nuclides: Tectonics, v. 32, p.1-14. pdf
32. Ozsayin, E., Ciner, A., Rojay, B., Dirik, K., Melnick, D., Fernandez-Blanco, D., Bertotti, G., Schildgen, T. F., Garcin, Y., Strecker, M. R., and Sudo, M., 2013, Plio-Quaternary Extensional Tectonics of the Central Anatolian Plateau: A case study from the Tuz Gölü Basin, Turkey: Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 22, p. 619-714. pdf
2012
31. Melnick, D., Moreno, M., Cisternas, M., and Tassara, A., 2012, Darwin seismic gap closed by the 2010 Maule earthquake: Andean Geology, v. 39, n. 3, p. 558-563. pdf
30. Garcin, Y., Melnick, D., Strecker, M.R., Olago, D., Tiercelin, J.-J., 2012, East African mid-Holocene wet–dry transition recorded in palaeo-shorelines of Lake Turkana, northern Kenya Rift: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 331-332, p. 322-334. pdf
29. Melnick, D., Garcin, Y., Quinteros, J., Strecker, M.R., Olago, D., Tiercelin, J.-J., 2012, Steady rifting in northern Kenya inferred from deformed Holocene lake shorelines of the Suguta and Turkana basins: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 331-332, p. 335-346. pdf
28. Melnick, D., Cisternas, M., Moreno, M., and Norambuena, R., 2012, Estimating coseismic coastal uplift with an intertidal mussel: calibration for the 2010 Maule Chile earthquake (Mw=8.8): Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 42, p. 29-42. pdf
27. Jaramillo, E., Dugan, J. E., Hubbard, D. M., Melnick, D., Manzano, M., Duarte, C., Campos, C., and Sanchez, R., 2012, Ecological Implications of Extreme Events: Footprints of the 2010 Earthquake along the Chilean Coast: PLoS ONE, v. 7, p. e35348. pdf
26. Moreno, M., Melnick, D., Rosenau, M., Baez, J. C., Klotz, J., Oncken, O., Tassara, A., Bataille, K., Chen, J., Socquet, A., Bevis, M., Bolte, J., Vigny, C., Brooks, B., Simons, M., Grund, V., Smalley, R., Carrizo, D., Bartsch, M., and Hase, H., 2012, Toward understanding tectonic control on the Mw 8.8 2010 Maule Chile earthquake: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 321, p. 152-165. pdf
25. Melnick, D., Moreno, M., Motagh, M., Cisternas, M., and Wesson, R., 2012, Splay fault slip during the Mw 8.8 2010 Maule Chile earthquake: Geology, v. 40, p. 251-254. pdf
2011
24. Yıldırım, C., Schildgen, T., Echtler, H., Melnick, D., and Strecker, M., 2011, Late Neogene and active orogenic uplift in the Central Pontides associated with the North Anatolian Fault; implications for the northern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Turkey: Tectonics, v. 30, p. TC5005. pdf
23. Moreno, M., Melnick, D., Rosenau, M., Bolte, J., Klotz, J., Echtler, H., Baez, J.C., Bataille, K., Chen, J., Bevis, M., and Oncken, O., 2011, Heterogeneous plate locking in the South-Central Chile subduction zone: building up the next great earthquake: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 305, p. 413-424. pdf
22. Vargas, G., Farías, M., Carretier, S., Tassara, A., Baize, S., and Melnick, D., 2011, Coastal uplift and tsunami effects associated to the 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule earthquake in Central Chile: Andean Geology, v. 38, p. 219-238. pdf
21. Stefer, S., Moernaut, J., Melnick, D., Echtler, H.P., Arz, H.W., Lamy, F., De Batist, M., Oncken, O., and Haug, G.H., 2010, Forearc uplift rates deduced from sediment cores of two coastal lakes in south-central Chile: Tectonophysics, v. 495, p. 123-143. pdf
20. Farías, M., Vargas, G., Tassara, A., Carretier, S., Baize, S., Melnick, D., and Bataille, K., 2010, Land-level changes produced by the 2010 Mw 8.8 Chile earthquake, Science, v. 329, p. 916. pdf , BBC news highlight
19. Scalabrino, B., LaGabrielle, Y., Malavieille, J., Dominguez, S., Melnick, D., Espinoza, F., Suarez, M., and Rossello, E. A., 2010, A morphotectonic analysis of Central Patagonian Cordillera. Negative inversion of the Andean belt over a buried spreading center?, Tectonics, v. 29, TC2010. pdf
18. Moreno, M.S., Bolte, J., Klotz, J., Melnick, D., 2009, Impact of megathrust geometry on inversion of coseismic slip from geodetic data: Application to the 1960 Chile earthquake: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 36, p. L16310. pdf
17. Garcin, Y., Junginger, A., Melnick, D., Olago, D.O., Strecker, M.R., Trauth, M.H., 2009, Late Pleistocene-Holocene rise and collapse of the Lake Suguta, northern Kenya Rift: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 28, p. 911-925. pdf
16. Melnick, D., Bookhagen, B., Strecker, M., and Echtler, H., 2009, Segmentation of megathrust rupture zones from forearc deformation patterns over hundreds to millions of years, Arauco Peninsula, Chile: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 114, p. B01407. pdf
15. Moreno, M. Klotz, J., Melnick, D., Echtler, H., Bataille, K., 2008, Active faulting and heterogeneous deformation across a megathrust segment boundary from GPS data, south-central Chile (36-39°S), Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 9, Q12024.
14. Melnick, D., Bookhagen, B., Echtler, H., and Strecker, M., 2006, Coastal deformation and great subduction earthquakes, Isla Santa María, Chile (37°S): Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 118, p. 1463-1480. pdf
13. Melnick, D., Charlet, F., Echtler, H.P., and De Batist, M., 2006, Incipient axial collapse of the Main Cordillera and strain partitioning gradient between the Central and Patagonian Andes, Lago Laja, Chile: Tectonics, v. 25, p. TC5004. pdf
12. Melnick, D., and Echtler, H.P., 2006, Inversion of forearc basins in south-central Chile caused by rapid glacial age trench fill: Geology, v. 34, p. 709-712. pdf
11. Melnick, D., Folguera, A., and Ramos, V.A., 2006, Structural control on arc volcanism: The Caviahue-Copahue complex, Central to Patagonian Andes transition (38S): Journal of South American Earth Sciences, v. 22, p. 66-88. pdf
10. Rosenau, M., Melnick, D., and Echtler, H., 2006, Kinematic constraints on intra-arc shear and strain partitioning in the Southern Andes between 38°S and 42°S latitude: Tectonics, v. 25, p. TC4013. pdf
9. Bookhagen, B., Echtler, H.P., Melnick, D., Strecker, M.R., and Spencer, J.Q.G., 2006, Using uplifted Holocene beach berms for paleoseismic analysis on the Santa María Island, south-central Chile: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 33, p. L15302. pdf
8. Melnick, D., Rosenau, M., Folguera, A., and Echtler, H., 2006, Neogene tectonic evolution of the Neuquén Andes western flank (37-39°S), in Kay, S.M., and Ramos, V.A., eds., Evolution of an Andean margin: A tectonic and magmatic view from the Andes to the Neuquen Basin (35-39°S lat), Volume 407, Geological Society of America Special Paper, p. 73-95. pdf
7. Melnick, D., and Echtler, H.P., 2006, Morphotectonic and geologic digital map compilations of the south-central Andes (36-42°S), in Oncken, O., Chong, G., Franz, G., Giese, P., Götze, H.-J., Ramos, V.A., Strecker, M., and Wigger, P., eds., The Andes - Active Subduction Orogeny, Volume 1: Frontiers in Earth Sciences: Berlin Heidelberg New York, Springer-Verlag, p. 565-568.
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