Laurent G. J. Montési

• Associate Professor
• Office: CSS 3231
• email: montesi@umd.edu
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• Education
  • Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002
    • Thesis: Localization Instability and the Origin of Regularly-Spaced Faults in Planetary Lithosphere
  • D.E.A. Université de Paris-Sud, 1996
    • Thesis: Tectonique des flancs et dynamisme éruptif de Pavonis Mons (Mars): Comparison avec les autres volcans boucliers de la région de Tharsis
• Publications:
  • Rodríguez-González, J., M.I. Billen, A.M. Negredo, and L.G.J. Montési (2016), Along-strike variation in subducting plate velocity induced by along-strike variation in overriding plate structure: Insights from 3D numerical models Journal of Geodynamics, 100 175-183. doi: 10.1016/j.jog.2016.02.006.
  • Miller, K.J., W. Zhu, L.G.J., Montési, G.A. Gaetani, V. Le Roux, and X. Xiao (2016) Experimental evidence for melt partitioning between olivine and orthopyroxene in partially molten harzburgite Journal of Geophysical Research, 121 273-282. doi: 10.1002/2016JB013122.
  • Miller, K.J., L.G.J. Montési, and W. Zhu (2014) Experimental quantification of permeability for partially molten mantle rocks. Earth Planetary Science Letters, 432 332-341. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.10.1004
  • Bai, H, and L.G.J. Montési (2015), Slip‐rate‐dependent melt extraction at oceanic transform faults, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 16, 401–419, doi:10.1002/2014GC005441
  • Walsh, L.J., L.G.J. Montési, and A.J. Martin (2014), Coulomb stress transfer and modeled permanent vertical surface deformation from the August 2011, Mineral, Virginia, earthquake, in The 2011 Mineral, Virginia, Earthquake, and Its Significance for Seismic Hazards in Eastern North America, Geological Society of America Special Papers 509, edited by J.W. Horton, Jr., M.C. Chapman, and R.A. Green, p. 305-329, doi: 10.1130/2015.2509(18)
  • Paczkowski, Karen, C. J. Thissen, M.D. Long, and L.G.J. Montési (2014), Deflection of mantle flow beneath subducting slabs and the origin of subslab anisotropy, Geophysical Research Letters 41 (19), 6734-6742, doi:10.1002/2014GL060914/
  • Paczkowski, Karen, L.G.J. Montési, M.D. Long, and C. J. Thissen (2014), Three-dimensional flow in the subslab mantle, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 15 (10), 3989-4008, doi:10.1002/2014GC005441
  • Johnston, Stephanie A., and Montési, L.G.J. (2014) Formation of ridges on Europa above crystallizing water bodies indside the ice shell. Icarus. 237 190-201. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2014.04.026
  • Gueydan, F., J. Précigout, and L.G.J. Montési, (2014) Strain weakening enables continental plate tectonics. Tectonophysics, in press doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.02.005.
  • Miller, K.J., Zhu, W., Montési, L., and Gaetani, G. (2014) Experimental quantification of permeability for partially molten mantle rocks. Earth Planetary Science Letters, 388 273-282. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.12.003.
  • Hebert, L.B., and L.G.J. Montési (2013) Hydration adjacent to a deeply subducting slab: the roles of nominally anhydrous minerals and migrating fluids, Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, 5753-5770. doi: 10.1029/2013JB010497.
  • Montési, L.G.J. (2013) Solving the Mascon Mystery, Science, 34(6140), 1535-1536. doi: 10.1126/science.1238099.
  • Smith, D.K., H. Schouten, L.G.J. Montési, and W. Zhu, (2013), The recent history of the Galapagos Triple Junction. Earth Planetary Science Letters, 371-372 6-15. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.04.018.
  • Montési, L.G.J. (2013) Fabric development as the key for forming ductile shear zones and enabling plate tectonics, Journal of Structural Geology, 50, 254-266. doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2012.12.011 .
  • Gregg, P.M., L.B. Hebert, L.G.J. Montési, and R.F. Katz, (2012), Geodynamic models of melt generation and extraction at mid-ocean ridges, Oceanography, 25(1): 78-88, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2012.05
  • Smith, D.K., H. Schouten, W. Zhu, L.G.J. Montési, and J. Cann, (2011), Distributed deformation ahead of the Cocos-Naxca Rift at the Galapagos Triple Junction, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystem, 12, Q11003, doi:10.1029/2011GC003689
  • Montési, L.G.J., M.D. Behn, L.B. Hebert, J. Lin, and J.L, Barry, (2011), The importance of plate-driven flow in generating crustal variations along the Southwest Indian Ridge 10°-16°E, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, B10102, doi:10.1029/2011JB008259
  • Mitchell, G.A., L.G.J. Montési, W. Zhu, D.K. smith, and H. Schouten, (2011), Transient rifting North of the Galápagos triple junction, Earth Planetary Science Letters, 307, 461-469, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.027
  • Hebert, L.B., and L.G.J. Montési, (2011), Melt extraction pathways at segmented oceanic ridges: Application to the East Pacific Rise at the Siqueiros transform, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L11306, doi:10.1029/2011GL047206
  • Zhu, W., G.A. Gaetani, F. Fusseis, L.G.J. Montési, and F. Di Carlo, (2011)Microtomography of partially molten rocks: three-dimensional melt distribution in mantle peridotite, Science, 332, 88-91, doi:10.1126/science.1202221
  • Hebert, L.B., and L.G.J. Montési, (2010), Generation of permeability barriers during melt extraction at mid-ocean ridges, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystem, 11, Q12008, doi:10.1029/2010GC003270
  • Rondenay, S., L.G.J. Montési, and G.A. Abers, (2010), New geophysical insight into the origin of the Denali volcanic gap, Geophysical Journal International, 182, 613-630, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04659.x
  • Zuber, M.T., L.G.J. Montési, G.T. Farmer, S.A. Hauck II, J.A. Ritzer, R.J. Phillips, S.C. Solomon, D.E. Smith, M.J. Talpe, J.W. Head III. G.A. Neumann, T.R. Watters, and C.L. Johnson, (2010), Accommodation of lithospheric shortening on Mercury from altimetric profiles of ridges and lobate scarps measured during MESSENGER Flybys 1 and 2, Icarus, 209, 247–255, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2010.02.026
  • Delescluse, M., L.G.J. Montési, and N. Chamot-Rooke, (2008), Fault reactivation and selective abandonment in the oceanic lithosphere, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L16312, doi: 10.1029/2008GL035066
  • Schouten, H., D.K. Smith, L.G.J. Montési, W. Zhu, and E.M. Klein, (2008). Cracking of lithosphere North of the Galapagos triple junction, Geology 36(5), 339-342, doi: 10.1130/G24431A.1.
  • Montési, L.G.J., and M.D. Behn, (2007). Mantle flow and melting underneath Mid-Ocean Ridges, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L24307, doi:10.1029/2007GL031067.
  • Zhu W., L.G.J. Montési, and T.-f. Wong, (2007). A micromechanics model of stress-induced anisotropic permeability reduction during compactive cataclastic flow, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, B10207, doi:10.1029/2006JB004456.
  • Gregg, P., J. Lin, M.D. Behn, and L.G.J. Montési, (2007). Spreading rate dependence of the gravity structure of oceanic transform faults. Nature, 448, 183-187, doi: 10.1038/nature05962.
  • Montési, L.G.J., (2007). A constitutive model for layer development in shear zones near the brittle-ductile transition. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L08307, doi:10.1029/2007GL029250. 
  • Montési, L.G.J., G. Di Toro, F.J. Simons, S. Akber-Knutsen, T.W. Becker, M. Billen, and J.B. Kellogg, (2006). Young Scientists Focus on the Dynamics of the lithosphere, EOS Trans. AGU 87 (42), p.482, doi:10.1029/2006ES001627. 
  • Deschamps, A., T. Fujiwara, M. Asada, L.G.J. Montési, and P. Gente, (2005). Volcanism and faulting in the axial valley of the slow spreading center of the Mariana back-arc basin from Wadatsumi side-scan sonar images, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystem, 6, (5) doi:10.1029/2004GC000881. 
  • Montési, L.G.J., (2004). Postseismic deformation and the strength of ductile shear zones. Earth, Planets, Space,56, 1135-1142.
  • Montési, L.G.J., (2004). Controls of shear zone rheology and tectonic loading on postseismic creep. Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, B10404, doi: 10.1029/2003JB002925.
  • Montési, L.G.J., and G. Hirth, (2003). Grain size evolution and the rheology of ductile shear zones: From laboratory experiments to postseismic creep. Earth Planetary Science Letters, 211, 97-110. 
  • Montési, L.G.J., and M.T. Zuber, (2003). Clues to the lithospheric structure of Mars from the spacing of wrinkle ridges. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, 5048, doi: 10.1029/2002JE001974.
  • Montési, L.G.J., and M.T. Zuber, (2003). Spacing of faults at the Scale of the Lithosphere and Localization Instability 2: Application to the Central Indian Basin. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, B2, 2111, doi: 10.1029/2002JB001924. 
  • Montési, L.G.J., and M.T. Zuber, (2003). Spacing of faults at the Scale of the Lithosphere and Localization Instability 1: Theory. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, B2, 2110, doi:10. 1029/2002JB001923.
  • Zhu, W., L.G.J. Montési, and T.-f. Wong, (2002). Effects of stress on the anisotropic development of permeability during mechanical compaction of porous sandstones, in Deformation Mechanisms, Current status and Future Perspectives. Geological Society Special Publication, 200. S. de Meer, M. Drury, H. de Bresser, and G. Pennock (eds.). Geological Society, London, p.119-136.
  • Zhu, W., D.K. Smith, and L.G.J. Montési, (2002). Effects of regional slope on viscous flows: A preliminary study of lava terrace emplacement at submarine rift zones. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 119, 145-159. 
  • Montési, L.G.J., and M.T. Zuber, (2002). A unified description of localization for application to large-scale tectonics, Journal of Geophysical Research, 107, B3, 10.1029/2001JB000465.
  • Montési, L.G.J., (2001). Concentric dike swarms on the flanks of Pavonis Mons: Implications for the evolution of Martian shield volcanoes and mantle plumes, in Mantle Plumes: Their Identification Through Time. Geological Society of America Special Paper 352. R. E. Ernst and K. L. Buchan (eds.), p. 165-181.
  • Zhu, W., L. Montési, and T.-f. Wong, (1997). Shear-enhanced compaction and permeability reduction: Triaxial extension tests on porous sandstone Mechanics of Materials, 25, 199-214.

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