Publications — student/postdoc authors in purple

Keller, F., Townsend, M., Troch, J. and Huber, C., 2025. Volatile resorption expedites eruption onset in large silicic systems. Research Square Preprint

Chatterjee, A.P., Townsend, M., Huber, C., Head, J.W. and Bachmann, O., 2025. Establishing a link between planetary-scale trends in martian magma compositions and volcanic resurfacing. Authorea Preprints

Aksit, G.G., Townsend, M. and Harp, A., 2025. The influence of magma density and edifice stresses on silicic dike propagation trajectories at Summer Coon volcano, Colorado, USA. Bulletin of Volcanology, 87(10), pp.1-19.

Moreno-Yaeger P., Singer, B.S., Alloway, B.V., Townsend, M., Cuzzone, J., Nachlas, W.O., Edwards, B.R., Jicha, B.R., Marcott, S.A. and Boschetty, F.O., 2025. Expansion and contraction of the Patagonian ice sheet and its influence on magma storage beneath Mocho‐Choshuenco volcano, Chile. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130(10), p.e2025JB031528.

Bussard, R.C., Dufek, J., Wauthier, C. and Townsend, M., 2025. Quantifying the effects of volcanic snow cover on InSAR coherence using a computationally inexpensive neural network. Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation, 2(3), p.e2024JH000553.

Singer, B.S., Moreno-Yaeger P., Townsend, M., Huber, C., Cuzzone, J., Edwards, B.R., Romero, M., Orellana-Salazar, Y., Marcott, S., Breunig, R.E., Ferrier, K.L., Scholz, K., Coonin, A., Alloway B., Tremblay M., Stevens S., Fustos-Toribio I., Moreno P., Vera F., Amigo A. 2024. New perspectives on ice forcing in continental arc magma plumbing systems. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, p.108187.

Coonin, A.N., Huber, C., Troch, J., Townsend, M., Scholz, K. and Singer, B.S., 2024. Magma chamber response to ice unloading: Applications to volcanism in the West Antarctic rift system. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25(12), p.e2024GC011743.

Scholz, K., Townsend, M., Huber, C., Troch, J., Bachmann, O. and Coonin, A.N., 2023. Investigating the Impact of an Exsolved H2O‐CO2 Phase on Magma Chamber Growth and Longevity: A Thermomechanical Model. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 24(12), p.e2023GC011151.

Townsend, M. and Huang, M.H., 2022. Timescales of dike growth and chamber deflation constrain magma storage and transport pathways during Kīlauea's 2018 lower East Rift Zone intrusion. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(12), p.e2022JB025636.

Townsend, M., 2022. Linking surface deformation to thermal and mechanical magma chamber processes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 577, p.117272.

Caricchi, L., Townsend, M., Rivalta, E. and Namiki, A., 2021. The build-up and triggers of volcanic eruptions. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2(7), pp.458-476.

Townsend, M. and Huber, C., 2020. A critical magma chamber size for volcanic eruptions. Geology, 48(5), pp.431-435.

Townsend, M., Huber, C., Degruyter, W. and Bachmann, O., 2019. Magma chamber growth during intercaldera periods: Insights from thermo‐mechanical modeling with applications to Laguna del Maule, Campi Flegrei, Santorini, and Aso. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20(3), pp.1574-1591.

Huber, C., Townsend, M., Degruyter, W. and Bachmann, O., 2019. Optimal depth of subvolcanic magma chamber growth controlled by volatiles and crust rheology. Nature Geoscience, 12(9), pp.762-768.

Townsend, M., 2018. Modeling thermal pressurization around shallow dikes using temperature‐dependent hydraulic properties: Implications for deformation around intrusions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(1), pp.311-323.

Pollard, D.D. and Townsend, M., 2018. Fluid-filled fractures in Earth's lithosphere: Gravitational loading, interpenetration, and stable height of dikes and veins. Journal of Structural Geology, 109, pp.38-54.

Townsend, M., Pollard, D.D. and Smith, R.P., 2017. Mechanical models for dikes: A third school of thought. Tectonophysics, 703, pp.98-118.

Townsend, M., Pollard, D.D., Johnson, K. and Culha, C., 2015. Jointing around magmatic dikes as a precursor to the development of volcanic plugs. Bulletin of Volcanology, 77, pp.1-13.