1. Publications: Landslide Hazards
Wieczorek, G.F., Eaton, L.S., Morgan, B.A., Wooten, R.M., and Morrissey, M., (2009)
An examination of selected historical rainfall-induced debris-flow events within the
central and southern Appalachian Mountains of the Eastern United States: U.S.
Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009–1155, 25 p.,
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1155.
Morrissey, M.M., Wieczorek, G.F., and Morgan, B.A. (2008). A comparative analysis of
simulated and observed landslide locations triggered by Hurricane Camille in Nelson
County, Virginia: New York, John Wiley & Sons: Hydrological Processes, v. 22, no. 4, p.
524–531, available at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-
bin/fulltext/116332429/PDFSTART. .
Morrissey, M.M., G.F. Wieczorek, and B.A. Morgan (2004). Regional application of a
transient hazard model for predicting initiation of debris flows in Madison County,
Virginia, E&EG Vol. 4 p. 285-296.
Morrissey, M.M., G.F. Wieczorek, and B.A. Morgan (2001). A comparative analysis of
hazard models for predicting debris flows in Madison County, Virginia. U.S. Geol. Surv.
Open File Rep. 01-67. pp. 01-67.
Savage. W.Z., R.L.Baum, M.M.Morrissey, B.P. Arndt (2000). Finite-element analysis of
the Woodway landslide, Washington. U.S. Geol. Surv. Bull. 2180, pp.9.
Savage. W.Z., M.M.Morrissey, R.L.Baum (2000). Geotechnical properties for landslide-
prone Seattle-area glacial deposits. U.S. Geol. Surv. Open File Rep.00-228. pp. 01-5.
Morrissey, M.M., Savage, W.Z. and Wieczorek, G.F., 1999, Airblasts generated from
rock-fall impacts: analysis of the 1996 Happy Isles event in Yosemite National Park:
Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 104, n. B10, pp. 23189-23198.
Morrissey, M.M.; Wieczorek, G. F.; Godt, J. (1999). Map showing locations of
damaging landslides in Marin County, California, resulting from 1997-98 El Nino
rainstorms. U.S.G.S. Miscellaneous Field Studies 2325-C.
Volcanology
Morrissey, M.M., G. Gisler, M. Weaver, and M. Gittings (2010) Numerical Model of
Crater Lake Eruptions, Bulletin of Volcanology, Bulletin of Volcanology, Volume 72,
Number 10, 1169-1178, DOI: 10.1007/s00445-010-0392-5
Morrissey, M.M., M. Garces, K. Ishihara and M. Iguchi (2008). Spectral analysis of
infrasonic and seismic events related to the 1998 Vulcanian eruption at Sakurajima.
Journal of Volcanological and Geothermal Research, vol. 175, p. 315-324.

2. Morrissey, M.M, Mick Apted, Matthew Kozak Conceptual Models of Expected Events
Associated with an Igneous Event at Yucca Mountain Repository (2006), in Proceedings
of the 11th
International High-level Nuclear Waste Management Conference Las Vegas,
NV, p. 162-169.
Kozak, M, Apted, M. Morrissey, M.M., F. King, J. H. Kessler, and G. Mungov (2006)
Consequences Associated with Igneous Activity at Yucca Mountain in Proceedings of the
11th
International High-level Nuclear Waste Management Conference Las Vegas, NV, p.
170-176
Morrissey, M.M, M. Apted (2006) Natural Analogs For Future Volcanism In The Yucca
Mountain Region in Proceedings of the 11th
International High-level Nuclear Waste
Management Conference Las Vegas, NV, p.236-243.
EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute), 2005. Potential Igneous Processes Relevant to
the Yucca Mountain Repository: Intrusive-Release Scenario, EPRI 1011165. Electric
Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA.
EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute), 2004. Potential Igneous Processes Relevant to
the Yucca Mountain Repository: Extrusive -Release Scenario, Analysis and Implication,
EPRI Report 1008169, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA.
Morrissey, M.M., B.A. Chouet (2001). Trends in long-period and tremor seismicity
related to magmatic fluid compositions J. Volcanological and Geothermal Research 108:
265-281.
Morrissey, M.M., L.G. Mastin (2000). Vulcanian Eruptions. In: Encyclopedia of
Volcanoes, Ed. H. Sigurdsson, Academic Press, San Diego, CA, pp. 463-475.
Morrissey, M.M., B.Zimanowski, K. Wohletz (2000). Phreatomagmatic Fragmentation.
In: Encyclopedia of Volcanoes, Ed. H. Sigurdsson, Academic Press, San Diego, CA, pp.
431-445.
Garcés, M. Iguchi, K. Ishihara, M. Morrissey, Y. Sudo, and T. Tsutsui (1999). Infrasonic
precursors to a Vulcanian eruption at Sakurajima Volcano, Japan. Geophysical Research
Letters, 26: 2537-2540.
Morrissey, M.M., B.A. Chouet (1997). A numerical investigation of choked flow
dynamics and its application to the triggering mechanism of long-period events at
Redoubt Volcano, Alaska, 1989-1990, Journal of Geophysical Research 102: 7965-7983.
Morrissey, M.M. (1997). Long-period seismicity at Redoubt Volcano, Alaska, 1989-1990
related to magma degassing, Journal of Volcanological and Geophysical Research 75:
321-335.

3. McQueen, R.G, K.H. Wohletz, M.M. Morrissey (1996). Experimental study of
hydrovolcanism by fuel-coolant interaction analogs. Procedings for the AMIGO/AMI
Fall Meeting 1995.
Fischer,T.P., M.M.Morrissey, M.L. Calvache, D. Gomez, R. Torres, J. Stix, S.N.
Williams. (1994). SO2 flux and long-period seismicity at Galeras Volcano, Colombia.
Nature 368: 135-137.
Kieffer, S.W., M.M. Morrissey (1993). Exploring Earth with new data and tools.
Geotimes 38:15-17.
Morrissey, M.M. (1990). SEM analysis of tephra from the 1989-1990 eruption of
Redoubt Volcano, Alaska. Alaska Volcano Observatory Circular, March 1990: 10-17.
Self, S., J.A. Wolff, C.E.Skuba, M.M. Morrissey, T.L. Spell. (1990). Revisions to the
stratigraphy and volcanology of the post-0.5 Ma units and the volcanic section of VC-1
core hole, Valles Caldera, New Mexico. Journal of Geophysical Research 33:14572-
14588.