Publications

First author

Borrelli, M. E., C. Michaut., J. G. O’Rourke. (2025). “Formation of Pancake Domes on Venus as Viscous Flows Over an Elastic Lithosphere,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 130, 5. link

Borrelli, M. E., C. J. Bierson, J. G. O’Rourke, (2025). “Simple-To-Complex Crater Transition for the Uranian Satellites Ariel and Miranda,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 130, 1. link

Borrelli, M. E., O’Rourke, J. G., Smrekar, S. E., & Ostberg, C. M. (2021). “A global survey of lithospheric flexure at steep-sided domical volcanoes on Venus reveals intermediate elastic thicknesses”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 126, 7. link

Borrelli, M. E., and Collins, G. C. (2020). “Testing the Cryovolcanism and Plate Bending Hypotheses for Charon’s Smooth Plains,” Icarus, 356, 113717. link

Co-author

Trussell A. R., J. G. O’Rourke, D. A. Williams, I. T.W. Flynn, B. A. Black, M.E.Borrelli. (2025). “The Importance of Carbonatite Lavas in Outgassing Venus’s Modern-Day Atmosphere”, Science Advances 11, eadw1621). link

Ghail, R., S. E. Smrekar, M. E. Borrelli, P. Byrne, A. Gülcher, R. F. Garcia, R. Herrick, T. Gerya, J. G. O’Rourke, A. Davaille, E. Mulyukova, T. Rolf, I. Plesa, G. Shellnutt, M. Ivanov. (2024) “Volcanic and Tectonic Constraints on the Evolution of Venus,” Space Sci Rev 220, 36. link

Blaske, C. H., J. G. O’Rourke, S. J. Desch, M. E. Borrelli. (2023). “Meteors may masquerade as lightning in the atmosphere of Venus,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 128, 9. link

O’Rourke, J. G., C. F. Wilson, M. E. Borrelli, P. K. Byrne, C. Dumoulin, R. Ghail, A. J. P. Gülcher, S. A. Jacobson, O. Korablev, T. Spohn, M. J. Way, M. Weller, F. Westall. (2023). “Venus, the Planet: Introduction to the Evolution of Earth’s Sister Planet,” Space Science Reviews, 219, 10. link