Selected Publications

A full listing may be found on my Google Scholar page

• Roy, M., G. Lang Farmer, K. Malone*, Nd isotopic equilibration during channelized melt transport through the lithosphere: a feasibility study using idealized numerical models, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25, e2024GC011593. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GC011593. 2024
• Block, G., Roy, M., Graves, E., and R. Grapenthin, Pressurizing magma within heterogeneous crust: a case study at the Socorro Magma Body, New Mexico, USA, Geophysical Research Letters, 50, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105689, 2023
• Cosburn K, Roy, M, and R. Nishiyama, A machine learning approach to joint gravity and cosmic-ray muon inversion at Mt. Usu, Japan, Geophysical Journal International, 233 (2), 1081-1096, 2023
• Roy, M., Assessing the role of thermal disequilibrium in the evolution of the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary: an idealized model of heat exchange during channelized melt transport, Solid Earth, 13, 1415–1430, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-1415-2022, 2022
• Cosburn, K. and M. Roy, Analysing the topographic form of stratovolcanoes, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.107123, 2020
• Cosburn, Katherine, Mousumi Roy, Elena Guardincerri and Charlotte Rowe, Joint inversion of gravity with cosmic ray muon data at a well-characterized site for shallow subsurface density prediction, Geophys. J. Int. (2019) 217, 1988-2002
• Roy, M., Lewis, M., Johnson, A., George, N, C. Rowe and E. Guardincerri, Inferring shallow subsurface density structure from surface and underground gravity measurements: calibrating models in a well-studied geologic setting, Pure Appl. Geophys. 2017, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-017-1742-4 .
• Guardincerri, E., C. Rowe, E. Schultz Fellenz, M. Roy, N. George, C. Morris, J. Bacon, M. Durham, D. Morley, K. Plaud-Ramos, D. Poulson, D. Baker, A. Bonneville, and R. Kouzes (2017), 3D Cosmic Ray Muon Tomography from an Underground Tunnel, Pure Appl. Geophys., vol. 174, no 5, pp 2133-2141, doi:10.1007/s00024-017-1526-x
• Roy, M., Gold, S., Johnson, A., Osuna Orozco, R., Holtzman, B. K. and Gaherty J. (2016), Macroscopic coupling of deformation and melt migration at continental interiors, with applications to the Colorado Plateau, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 121, doi:10.1002/2015JB012149.
• Roy, M., Osuna Orozco, R., Holtzman, B. and Gaherty, J., Melt-enhanced Rejuvenation of Lithospheric Mantle: Insights from the Colorado Plateau, arXiv:1212.2984 [physics.geo-ph], 2013.
• Berglund, H. T., A. F. Sheehan, M. H. Murray, M. Roy, A. R. Lowry, R. S. Nerem, and F. Blume, Distributed deformation across the Rio Grande Rift, Great Plains, and Colorado Plateau, Geology, 40(1), p. 23-26, doi:10.1130/G32418.1, 2012.
• Roy, M., T.H. Jordan, and J. Pederson, Cenozoic magmatism and rock uplift of the Colorado Plateau by warming of chemically buoyant lithosphere, Nature 459, doi:10.1038/nature08052, 2009
• Pazzaglia, F., Selverstone, J., Roy, M., and 4 others, Geomorphic expression of midcrustal extension in convergent orogens, Tectonics, 26, doi: 10.1029/2006TC001961, 2007 ()
• Roy, M., MacCarthy, J.K., and J. Selverstone, Upper mantle structure beneath the eastern Colorado Plateau and Rio Grande rift revealed by Bouguer gravity, seismic velocities, and xenolith data, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, v. 6, 2005.
• McCoy, A., Roy, M., L. Trevino and R. Keller, Gravity models of the Colorado Mineral Belt, in The Rocky Mountain Region - An Evolving Lithosphere: Tectonics, Geochemistry, and Geophysics: American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph 154 (eds. Karlstrom, K.E. and Keller, G.R.), 2005,
• Peterson, C. and M. Roy, A comparative study of the basins of the Rio Grande Rift based on gravity and flexure models, New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 56th Field Conference, 2005.