Publications

2D numerical model of a magma-poor rifted margin, showing how detachment faults and shear zones in the mantle control the structure of the continent-ocean transition.
Overthickening of the Venusian crust causes eclogite roots to form and collapse into the mantle. This is a possible formation mechanism. for some coronae.

Montiel, N. J., Lavier, L. L., Hemingway, D. J. (2024) Coronae and chasmata morphology consistent with generation of new Venusian crust. In 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Lunar and Planetary Institute.

Seltzer, C., Lien, R., Radzom, B., Mullikin, E., Bott, K., Brouwer, G., Burtt, D., Gentgen, C., Abbate, J., Gandarillas, V., Green, A., Head, T., Hill, J., Larson, J., Montiel, N., Moreno, R., Wagner, N., Wijesekara, P., Nash, A., Tuttle-Kean, J. (submitted). THUNDER: A Titan orbiter mission concept for the New Frontiers program. Planetary Science Journal.

Montiel, N. J., Masini, E., Lavier, L., Müntener, O., & Calassou, S. (2023). Mantle Deformation Processes During the Rift‐To‐Drift Transition at Magma‐Poor Margins. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 24(11), e2023GC010924.

Griffith, C. A., Penteado, P. F., Turner, J. D., Neish, C. D., Mitri, G., Montiel, N. J., … & Lopes, R. M. (2019). A corridor of exposed ice-rich bedrock across Titan’s tropical region. Nature Astronomy, 3(7), 642-648. DOI: 10.1038/s41550-019-0756-5.