Publications

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (*: student advisees)
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Treiman, A. H., Hernández‐Montenegro, J. D., Wiens, R. C., Wade, L., VanBommel, S., Van Beek, J., Udry A., … & Allwood, A. C. (2025) The Brac/Dourbes olivine‐cumulate rock, Séítah formation, Jezero crater floor, Mars: Its parent magma, and relation to basalts of the Máaz formation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 130(4), e2024JE008539.

Schmidt M., Kizovski T., Liu Y., Hernandez-Montenegro J., Tice M. M., Treiman A. H., Hurowitz J., Klevang D. A., Knight A. L., Labrie J., Tosca N. J., VanBommel S.J., Benaroya S., Crumpler L. S., Horgan B. H. N., Morris R. V., Simon J. I., Udry A., et al. (2025) Diverse and highly differentiated lava suite in Jezero crater, Mars: Constraints on intracrustal magmatismrevealed by Mars 2020 PIXL. Science Advances, 11, eadr2613

Udry A., Ostwald A.*, Day J.M.D., and Hallis L. (2025) Fundamental constraints and questions from the study of martian meteorites and the need for returned samples. PNAS, 122(2), e2404254121.

Royer, C., Bedford, C.C., Johnson, J.R., …, Udry A., et al. (2024) Intense alteration on early Mars revealed by high-aluminum rocks at Jezero crater. Communications Earth and Environment 5, 671 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01837-2

Hausrath, E., Sullivan, R., Goreva, Y., Mier, M.-P., Vaughan, A., Cousin, A., Silijestrom, S., Sharma, S., Shumway, A., Udry, A., Kizovski, T., et al. (2024). Collection and in situ analyses of regolith samples by the Mars 2020 rover: Implications for the formation and alteration history, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JE008046

Cousin A., Meslin P.-Y., Forni O., Beyssac O, Clave E., Hausrath E., Beck P.,Bedford C., Sullivan, R., Schroder S., Dehouck E., Johnson J., Vaughan A., Martin N., Chide B., Lasue J., Gasnault O., Fouchet T., Pilleri P., Udry A., et al. (2024) Soil diversity at Jezero crater and Comparison to Gale crater, Mars. Icarus, 425, 116299

Ostwald, A.*, Udry, A., Gross, J., Day, J. M. D., and Griffin, S. (2024). Complex zoning in the nakhlite and chassignite martian meteorites reveals multi-stage petrogenesis. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 380, 1–17.

Udry A., Ostwald A.*, Day J.M.D., and Hallis L. (2024) Fundamental constraints and questions from the study of martian meteorites and the need for returned samples. PNAS, Accepted.

Bosak T., …, Udry A., et al. (2024) Astrobiological potential of rocks acquired by the Perseverance rover at a sedimentary fan front in Jezero crater, Mars. AGU Advances, Accepted

Wilbur Z.E., McCoy T. J., Corrigan C., Barnes J., Udry A., Brown S. V. (2024) The formation of volatile-bearing djerfisherite in reduced meteorites. Meteoritics and Planetary Science Journal, doi.org/10.1111/maps.14220.

Day J. M. D., Paquet M., Udry A., and Moynier F. (2024) A heterogeneous mantle and crustal structure formed during the early differentiation of Mars Science Advances, 10–22, eadn9830.

Payré V., Udry A., and Fraeman A. A. (2024) Igneous diversity of the early martian crust. Minerals, 14, 452, https://doi.org/10.3390/min14050452.

Eckley, S. A., Ketcham, R. A., Liu, Y., Udry, A., and Gross, J. (2024). New olivine morphologies in shergottites reveal complex thermal histories of martian magmas, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2024.04.006.

O’Neal, E.*, Ostwald A.*, Udry, A., Gross J., Righter, M., Lapen, T., Darling J., Howarth G., Johnsen, R., and McQuaig D. (2024). Source and parental melts of poikilitic shergottites: Implications for martian magmatism, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 373, 122–135.

Ostwald, A.*, Udry, A., Day, J. M. D., and Gross, J. (2024). Melt inclusion heterogeneity in nakhlite and chassignite meteorites and evidence for complicated, multi-generational magmas. Meteoritics and Planetary Science Journal, doi: 10.1111/maps.14159.

Ramsey, S. R.*, Ostwald, A. M.*, Udry, A., O’Neal, E.*, Day, J. M. D., Wilbur, Z., Barnes, J. J., and Griffin, S. (2023). Northwest Africa 13669, a Reequilibrated Nakhlite from a Previously Unsampled Portion of the Nakhlite Igneous Complex. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. 1–37, doi: 10.1111/maps.14112

Horgan, B. H. N., Udry, A., Rice, M. S., Alwmark, S., Amundsen, H. E., Bell III, J. F., … & Wiens, R. C. (2023). Mineralogy, morphology, and emplacement history of the Maaz formation on the Jezero crater floor from orbital and rover observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, e2022JE007612.

Beyssac, O., Forni, O., Cousin, A., Udry, A., Kah, L. C., Mandon, L., … & SuperCam Team. (2023). Petrological traverse of the olivine cumulate Séítah formation at Jezero crater, Mars: A perspective from SuperCam onboard Perseverance. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, e2022JE007638.

Sun, V. Z., Hand, K. P., Stack, K. M., Farley, K. A., Simon, J. I., Newman, C., …Udry A. et al. (2023) Overview and Results from the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover’s First Science Campaign on the Jezero Crater Floor. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, e2022JE007613.

Alvarez-Llamas, C., Laserna, J., Moros, J., Purohit, P., García-Gómez, L., Angel, S. M., … Udry A., …, Wiens, R. C. (2023). The sound of geological targets on Mars from the absolute intensity of laser-induced sparks shock waves. Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy, 106687.

Simon, J. I., Hickman‐Lewis, K., Cohen, B. A., Mayhew, L. E., Shuster, D. L., Debaille, V., … Udry A. et al. (2023. Samples Collected from the Floor of Jezero Crater with the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, e2022JE007474.

Alwmark, S., Horgan, B., Udry, A., Bechtold, A., Fagents, S., Ravanis, E., … & Núñez, J. (2023). Diverse Lava Flow Morphologies in the Stratigraphy of the Jezero Crater Floor. Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets, e2022JE007446.

Hausrath, E. M., Adcock, C. T., Bechtold, A., Beck, P., Benison, K., Brown, A., … Udry A. et al. & Regolith working group (2023). An Examination of Soil Crusts on the Floor of Jezero Crater, Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, e2022JE007433.

Clavé E., Benzerara, K., Meslin, P. Y., Forni, O., Royer, C., Mandon, L., … Udry A. et al. & SuperCam team. (2023). Carbonate detection with SuperCam in igneous rocks on the floor of Jezero Crater, Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, e2022JE007463.

Crumpler, L. S., Horgan, B., Simon, J., Stack, K., Alwmark, S., Gilles, D., …, Udry A., …& Williams, N. (2022). In Situ Geologic Context Mapping Transect on the Floor of Jezero Crater from Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, e2022JE007444.

Griffin S., Udry A., Daly L., Forman L. V., Lee M. R., and Cohen B. E. (2022) Investigating the igneous petrogenesis of Martian volcanic rocks using augite quantitative textural analysis of the Yamato nakhlites. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13934.

Udry, A., Ostwald, A.*, Sautter, V., Cousin, A., Beyssac, O., Forni, O., et al. (2022) A Mars 2020 Perseverance SuperCam Perspective on the Igneous Nature of the Máaz formation at Jezero crater and link with Séítah, Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 127, e2022JE007440. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JE007440.

Liu Y.,…, Udry A. et al. (2022) An olivine cumulate outcrop on the floor of Jezero crater, Science 10.1126/science.abo2756.

Wiens R. C., Udry A., et al. (2022) Compositionally and density stratified igneous terrain in Jezero crater, Mars, Science Advances 8, eabo3399.

Nicklas R. W., Day. J. M. D., Gardner-Vandy K. G., and Udry A. (2022) Early silicic magmatism on a differentiated asteroid, Nature Geoscience, 15, 696–699 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00996-1

Wilbur, Z.*, Udry, A., McCubbin, F. M., Vander Kaaden, K. E., DeFelice, C., Ziegler, K., Ross D. K., McCoy T. J., Gross J., Barnes J. J., Dygert N., Zeigler R. A., Turrin B. D., and McCoy, C. (2022) The effects of highly reduced magmatism revealed through aubrites. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. 1–34, doi: 10.1111/maps.13823

Ostwald A.*, Udry A., Payre V., Gazel E., and Wu P. (2022) The role of assimilation and fractional crystallization in the evolution of the Mars crust. Earth And Planetary Science Letters, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117514

Nicklas R. W., Day J. M. D., Udry A., and Vaci Z. (2022) Petrogenesis of Northwest Africa 8686, A Low Mg-number Olivine-Phyric Shergottite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13805.

Tait K. T., McCubbin F. M., Smith C. L., Agee C. B., Busemann H., Cavalazzi B., … & Udry A., Velbel M. A., Wadhwa M., Westall F., and Zorzano, M. P. (2021) Preliminary Planning for Mars Sample Return (MSR) Curation Activities in a Sample Receiving Facility. Astrobiology, DOI: 10.1089/ast.2021.0105.

Carrier B. L., Beaty D. W., Hutzler A., Smith A. L., Kminek G., Meyer M. A., … & Udry A., Usui T., Velbel M. A., Wadhwa M., Westall F., and Zorzano, M. P. (2021) Science and Curation Considerations for the Design of a Mars Sample Return (MSR) Sample Receiving Facility. Astrobiology, https://doi.org/10.1089/AST.2021.0110

Grady M. M., Summons R. E., Swindle T. D., Westall F., Kminek G., Meyer M. A., …, & Udry A., Usui T., Velbel M. A., Wadhwa M., and Zorzano, M. P. (2021) The Scientific Importance of Returning Airfall Dust as a Part of Mars Sample Return (MSR) Astrobiology, https://doi.org/10.1089/AST.2021.0111

Velbel M. A., Cockell C. S., Glavin D. P., Marty B., Regberg A. B., Smith A. L., …, & Udry A., Usui T., Westall F., and Zorzano, M. P. (2021) Planning Implications Related to Sterilization-Sensitive Science Investigations Associated with Mars Sample Return (MSR) Astrobiology, https://doi.org/10.1089/AST.2021.0113

Tosca N. J, Agee C. B., Cockell C. S., Glavin D. P., Hutzler A., Marty B, … & Udry A., Usui T., Velbel M. A., Wadhwa M., Westall F., and Zorzano, M. P. (2021) Time-Sensitive Aspects of Mars Sample Return (MSR) Science. Astrobiology, https://doi.org/10.1089/AST.2021.0115

Meyer M. A., Kminek G., Beaty D. W., Carrier B. L., Haltigin T., Hays L. E., … & Udry A., Usui T., Velbel M. A., Wadhwa M., Westall F., and Zorzano, M. P. (2021) Final Report of the MSR Science Planning Group 2 (MSPG2) Astrobiology, https://doi.org/10.1089/AST.2021.0121

Haltigin, T., Hauber E., Kminek G., Meyer M. A., Agee C. B., Busemann H., Carrier B. L., Glavin D. P., Hays L. E., Marty B., Pratt L. M., Udry A., … & Westall F. (2021) Rationale and Proposed Design for a Mars Sample Return (MSR) Science Program. Astrobiology, https://doi.org/10.1089/AST.2021.0122

Anderson R. B., Forni O., Cousin A., Wiens R. C., Clegg S. M., Frydenvang J., … Udry A., Venhaus D., McLennan S. M., Morris R. V. & Ehlmann, B. (2021). Post-landing major element quantification using SuperCam laser induced breakdown spectroscopy. Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy, 106347.

Ramsey S. R., Howarth G. H., Udry A., and Gross J. (2021) Nickel-manganese variability in olivine and Al-in-olivine thermometry for olivine-phyric shergottites, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 1–22, doi.org/10.1111/maps.13721.

Wu P., Gazel E., Udry A., Setara J., and Ostwald A.* (2021) Melt inclusions in chassignite NWA 2737: A link between processes recorded in martian meteorites and rocks at Gale Crater, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, doi/10.1111/maps.13700.

Nicklas R., Day J. M. D., Vaci Z., Udry A., Liu Y., and Tait K. T. (2021) Uniform oxygen fugacity of shergottite mantle sources and an oxidized martian lithosphere, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 564, 116876.

Udry, A., Howarth, G. H., Herd, C., Day, J. M. D., Lapen, T. J., & Filiberto, J. (2020). What martian meteorites reveal about the interior and surface of Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 55, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JE006523.

Paquet M., Day J. M. D., Udry A., Hattingh R., Kumler B., Rahib R. R., Tait K. T., Neal C. R. (2020) Highly siderophile elements in shergottite sulfides and the sulfur content of the martian mantle. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 293, 379–398.

Payré V., Siebach K., Dasgupta R., Udry A., Morrisson S., and Rampe E. (2020) Constraining ancient magmatic evolution on Mars using crystal chemistry of detrital igneous minerals in the sedimentary Bradbury group, Gale crater, Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 125, e2020JE006467. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JE006467.

Krämer Ruggiu L., Gattacceca J., Devouard B., Udry A., Debaille V., Rochette P., Lorand J.-P., Bonal L., Beck P., Sautter V., Busemann H., Meier M. M. M., Maden (2020) Caleta el Cobre 022 martian meteorite: increasing nakhlite diversity. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 55(7), pp.1539-1563.

Rahib R. R.*, Udry A., Howarth G. H., Gross J., Paquet M., Combs L. M.*, Laczniak D. L.*, and Day J. M. D. (2019) Mantle source to near-surface emplacement of enriched and intermediate poikilitic shergottites in Mars Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 266, 463–496, doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.07.034.

Combs L. M.*, Udry A., Howarth G. H., Righter M., Lapen T. J., Gross J., Ross K. D., Rahib R. R.*, Day J. M. D. (2019) Petrology of the enriched poikilitic shergottite Northwest Africa 10169: Insight into the martian interior. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.07.001.

Udry A., Wilbur Z. E.*, Rahib R. R.*, McCubbin F. M., Vander Kaaden K. E., McCoy T. J., Ziegler K., Gross J., DeFelice C., Combs L.*, Turrin D. B. (2019) Reclassification of four aubrites as enstatite chondrite impact melts: Potential geochemical analogues for Mercury.Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences, doi.org/10.1111/maps.13252.

Day J.M.D., Tait K., Udry A., Moynier F., Liu Y., and Neal C. (2018) Martian magmatism from plume metasomatized mantle. Nature Communications, 9, 4799, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07191

Udry A. and Day J. M. D. (2018) 1.34 billion-year-old magmatism on Mars evaluated from the co-genetic nakhlite and chassignite meteorites. Journal of Geophysical Research, 238, 292–315. doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2018.07.006.

Filiberto J., Gross, J., Udry, A., Trela, J., Wittmann, A., Cannon, K.M., Penniston-Dorland, S., Ash, R.D., Hamilton, V.E., Meado, A.L. and Carpenter, P., Hamilton, V. E., Meado, A. L., Carpenter P., Jolliff, B., and Ferré E. C. (2018) Shergottite Northwest Africa 6963: A Pyroxene-Cumulate Martian Gabbro. Journal of Geophysical Research, doi.org/10.1029/2018JE005635.

Udry A., Gazel E., and McSween H. Y. (2018) Formation of evolved rocks at Gale Crater by crystal fractionation and implications for Mars crustal contamination. Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets, 123, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JE005602

Bartlett C. L., Hausrath E. M., Adcock C. T., Huang Harrold Z., and Udry A. (2018) Effects of organic compounds on dissolution of the phosphate minerals chlorapatite, whitlockite, merrillite, and fluorapatite: Implications for interpreting past signatures of organic compounds in rocks, soils and sediments. Astrobiology, In Press.

Adcock C. T., Udry A., Hausrath E. M., and Tschauner O. (2017) Craters of the Moon National Monument Basalts as Unshocked Compositional and Weathering Analogs for Martian Rocks and Meteorites, American Mineralogist, 103, 502-516.

Howarth G. H., Udry A., and Day J. M.D. (2017) Petrogenesis and shock melting effects on the rare earth elements within basaltic shergottite Northwest Africa 8657, Meteoritics and Planetary Science journal, DOI: 10.1111/maps.12999.

Adcock C. T. ,Tschauner O., Hausrath E. M., Udry A., Luo S. N., Cai Y., Ren M., Lanzirotti A., Newville M., Kunz M., and Lin C. (2017) Shock-transformation of whitlockite to merrillite and the implications for meteoritic phosphate. Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14667

Udry A., Howarth G. H., Lapen T. J., and Righter M. (2017) Petrogenesis of the NWA 7320 enriched martian gabbroic shergottite: Insight into the martian crust. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.01.032

Howarth G. H. and Udry A. (2017) Trace elements in olivine and the petrogenesis of the intermediate, olivine-phyric shergottite NWA 10170. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 52: 391-409, doi: 10.1111/maps.12799.

Udry A., McSween H. Y. Jr., Hervig R. L., and Taylor L. A. (2015) Lithium isotopes and light lithophile element abundances in shergottites: Evidence for martian magmatic water. Meteoritics & Planetary Sciences, doi: 10.1111/maps.12582.

Balta J. B., Sanborn M. E., Udry A., Wadhwa M., and McSween H. Y. Jr. (2015) Petrology and trace-element geochemistry of Tissint, the newest shergottite fall. Meteoritics & Planetary Sciences, 50, 63-85, doi: 10.1111/maps.12403.

Vallianatos F., Ioannis P. Baziotis I. P., Udry A., and Taylor L. A. (2014) Application of non-extensive statistical physics on Martian nakhlites: A first-order approach on the crystal size distribution of pyroxene using Tsallis entropy. Europhysics Letters, 108, doi: 10.1209/0295-5075/108/58002.

Udry A., Lunning N. G., McSween H. Y. Jr., and Bodnar R. J. (2014) Petrogenesis of an impact melt clast in the martian meteorite breccia NWA 7034. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 141: 281-293, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2014.06.026

Udry A., Balta J. B., and McSween H. Y. Jr. (2014) Exploring fractionation models for martian magmas. Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets, 119, doi:10.1002/2013JE004445.

Udry A., McSween H. Y. Jr., Leccumberi-Sanchez P., and Bodnar R. J. (2012) Paired nakhlites MIL 090030, 090032, 090136, and 03346: Insights into the Miller Range parent meteorite. Meteoritics & Planetary Sciences, 47: 1575–1589, doi: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2012.01420.x