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  1. Corona structures as a window into volcano-tectonic activity on Venus: key insights and ways forward

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Laurent Montesi

  2. Barriers to Melt Ascent in the Lithosphere of Io With Applications to Heat Pipe Formation

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, March 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  3. Effective seismic wave velocities and attenuation in partially molten rocks

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, October 2021, Elsevier

    Laurent Montesi

  4. Thank You to Our 2020 Peer Reviewers

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, April 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  5. The Growth of Europa's Icy Shell: Convection and Crystallization

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, April 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  6. Recommendations for Addressing Priority Io Science in the Next Decade

    Article • March 2021, American Astronomical Society

    Laurent Montesi

  7. The Science Case for Io Exploration

    Article • March 2021, American Astronomical Society

    Laurent Montesi

  8. The Venus Strategic Plan

    Article • March 2021, American Astronomical Society

    Laurent Montesi

  9. The scientific rationale for deployment of a long-lived geophysical network on the Moon

    Article • March 2021, American Astronomical Society

    Laurent Montesi

  10. Venus Corona and Tessera Explorer (VeCaTEx)

    Article • March 2021, American Astronomical Society

    Laurent Montesi

  11. Earthquake cycles and shear zones: interplay between earthquakes, aseismic fault slip, and bulk viscous deformation

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Laurent Montesi

  12. Melt Focusing Along Permeability Barriers at Subduction Zones and the Location of Volcanic Arcs

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, December 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  13. Widespread ongoing plume activity on Venus revealed by variations in the morphology of large coronae

    Article • October 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Laurent Montesi

  14. Corona structures driven by plume–lithosphere interactions and evidence for ongoing plume activity on Venus

    Article • Nature Geoscience, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Laurent Montesi

  15. Effects of Heat‐Producing Elements on the Stability of Deep Mantle Thermochemical Piles

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, April 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  16. In Appreciation of Our 2019 Peer Reviewers

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, March 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  17. Geophysical Exploration of the Dynamics and Evolution of the Solar System (GEODES)

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Laurent Montesi

  18. Inferences of the lunar interior from a probabilistic gravity inversion approach

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Laurent Montesi

  19. Strength Variations of Southern California from Rheological and Geodynamical Approaches

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Laurent Montesi

  20. A Bayesian approach to infer interior mass anomalies from the gravity data of celestial bodies

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, December 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Laurent Montesi

  21. The dynamic life of an oceanic plate

    Article • Tectonophysics, June 2019, Elsevier

    Laurent Montesi

  22. The Generation of Barriers to Melt Ascent in the Martian Lithosphere

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, January 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  23. The impact of a pressurized regional sea or global ocean on stresses on Enceladus

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets, June 2017, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  24. Evaluating geodynamic models for sub-slab anisotropy: Effects of olivine fabric type

    Article • Geosphere, March 2017, Geological Society of America

    Laurent Montesi

  25. MeltMigrator: A MATLAB-based software for modeling three-dimensional melt migration and crustal thickness variations at mid-ocean ridges following a rules-based approach

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, January 2017, Wiley

    Laurent Montesi

  26. Fault‐bound valley associated with the Rembrandt basin on Mercury

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, November 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  27. Along-strike variation in subducting plate velocity induced by along-strike variation in overriding plate structure: Insights from 3D numerical models

    Article • Journal of Geodynamics, October 2016, Elsevier

    Laurent Montesi

  28. Experimental evidence for melt partitioning between olivine and orthopyroxene in partially molten harzburgite

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, August 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  29. THE IMPORTANCE OF STRESSES FROM A PRESSURIZED REGIONAL SEA ON ENCELADUS

    Article • January 2016, Geological Society of America

    Laurent Montesi

  30. Estimates of olivine–basaltic melt electrical conductivity using a digital rock physics approach

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, December 2015, Elsevier

    Laurent Montesi

  31. Slip-rate-dependent melt extraction at oceanic transform faults

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, February 2015, Wiley

    Laurent Montesi

  32. Coulomb stress transfer and modeled permanent vertical surface deformation from the August 2011, Mineral, Virginia, earthquake

    Article • January 2015, Geological Society of America

    Laurent Montesi

  33. Erratum to “Fabric development as the key for forming ductile shear zones and enabling plate tectonics” [J. Struct. Geol. 50 (2013) 254–266]

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, December 2014, Elsevier

    Laurent Montesi

  34. Deflection of mantle flow beneath subducting slabs and the origin of subslab anisotropy

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, October 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  35. Three-dimensional flow in the subslab mantle

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, October 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  36. Strain weakening enables continental plate tectonics

    Article • Tectonophysics, September 2014, Elsevier

    Laurent Montesi

  37. Formation of ridges on Europa above crystallizing water bodies inside the ice shell

    Article • Icarus, July 2014, Elsevier

    Laurent Montesi

  38. Experimental quantification of permeability of partially molten mantle rock

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, February 2014, Elsevier

    Laurent Montesi

  39. Hydration adjacent to a deeply subducting slab: The roles of nominally anhydrous minerals and migrating fluids

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, November 2013, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  40. Solving the Mascon Mystery

    Article • Science, June 2013, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Laurent Montesi

  41. The recent history of the Galapagos triple junction preserved on the Pacific plate

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, June 2013, Elsevier

    Laurent Montesi

  42. Fabric development as the key for forming ductile shear zones and enabling plate tectonics

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, May 2013, Elsevier

    Laurent Montesi

  43. Geodynamic Models of Melt Generation and Extraction at Mid-Ocean Ridges

    Article • Oceanography, March 2012, The Oceanography Society

    Laurent Montesi

  44. Distributed deformation ahead of the Cocos-Nazca Rift at the Galapagos triple junction

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, November 2011, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  45. Controls on melt migration and extraction at the ultraslow Southwest Indian Ridge 10°–16°E

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, October 2011, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  46. Transient rifting north of the Galápagos Triple Junction

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, July 2011, Elsevier

    Laurent Montesi

  47. Melt extraction pathways at segmented oceanic ridges: Application to the East Pacific Rise at the Siqueiros transform

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, June 2011, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  48. Microtomography of Partially Molten Rocks: Three-Dimensional Melt Distribution in Mantle Peridotite

    Article • Science, April 2011, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Laurent Montesi

  49. Generation of permeability barriers during melt extraction at mid-ocean ridges

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, December 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  50. Accommodation of lithospheric shortening on Mercury from altimetric profiles of ridges and lobate scarps measured during MESSENGER flybys 1 and 2

    Article • Icarus, September 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Steven A Hauck, Laurent Montesi

  51. New geophysical insight into the origin of the Denali volcanic gap

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, June 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Laurent Montesi

  52. Fault reactivation and selective abandonment in the oceanic lithosphere

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, August 2008, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  53. Cracking of lithosphere north of the Galapagos triple junction

    Article • Geology, January 2008, Geological Society of America

    Laurent Montesi

  54. Mantle flow and melting underneath oblique and ultraslow mid-ocean ridges

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, December 2007, Wiley

    Laurent Montesi

  55. A probabilistic damage model of stress-induced permeability anisotropy during cataclastic flow

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, October 2007, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  56. Spreading rate dependence of gravity anomalies along oceanic transform faults

    Article • Nature, July 2007, Nature

    Laurent Montesi

  57. A constitutive model for layer development in shear zones near the brittle-ductile transition

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, April 2007, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  58. Faulting and volcanism in the axial valley of the slow-spreading center of the Mariana back arc basin from Wadatsumi side-scan sonar images

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, May 2005, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  59. Postseismic deformation and the strength of ductile shear zones

    Article • Earth Planets and Space, December 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Laurent Montesi

  60. Controls of shear zone rheology and tectonic loading on postseismic creep

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, October 2004, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  61. Grain size evolution and the rheology of ductile shear zones: from laboratory experiments to postseismic creep

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, June 2003, Elsevier

    Laurent Montesi

  62. Spacing of faults at the scale of the lithosphere and localization instability: 1. Theory

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, February 2003, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  63. Spacing of faults at the scale of the lithosphere and localization instability: 2. Application to the Central Indian Basin

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, February 2003, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  64. Clues to the lithospheric structure of Mars from wrinkle ridge sets and localization instability

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 2003, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  65. Effects of regional slope on viscous flows: a preliminary study of lava terrace emplacement at submarine volcanic rift zones

    Article • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, January 2003, Elsevier

    Laurent Montesi

  66. A unified description of localization for application to large-scale tectonics

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 2002, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Laurent Montesi

  67. Effects of stress on the anisotropic development of permeability during mechanical compaction of porous sandstones

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 2002, Geological Society

    Laurent Montesi

  68. Concentric dikes on the flanks of Pavonis Mons: Implications for the evolution of martian shield volcanoes and mantle plumes

    Article • January 2001, Geological Society of America

    Laurent Montesi

  69. Shear-enhanced compaction and permeability reduction: Triaxial extension tests on porous sandstone

    Article • Mechanics of Materials, April 1997, Elsevier

    Laurent Montesi