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2011

Müller, R.D., 2011, Plate motion and mantle plumes, Nature, 475, p. 40-41.

Herold, N., Huber, M. and Müller, R.D., 2011, Modelling the Miocene climatic optimum, Part 1: land and atmosphere, Journal of Climate, in press.

Müller, R.D., Dyksterhuis, S., and Rey, P., 2011, Australian palaeo-stress fields and tectonic reactivation over the past 100 Myr, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, in press.

DiCaprio, L. Gurnis, M., Müller, R.D., and Tan, E., 2011, Mantle dynamics of continent-wide Cenzoic subsidence and tilting of Australia, Lithosphere, doi: 10.1130/L140.1.

Boyden, J.A., Müller, R.D., Gurnis, M., Torsvik, T.H., Clark, J.A., Turner, M., Ivey-Law, H., Watson, R.J. and Cannon, J.S., 2011, Next-generation plate-tectonic reconstructions using GPlates, in: Geoinformatics: Cyberinfrastructure for the Solid Earth Sciences, Keller G.R. and Baru, C., eds., Cambridge University Press, p. 95-114.

Gurnis, M., Turner, M., Zahirovic, S., DiCaprio, L., Spasojevich, S., Müller, R.D., Boyden, J., Seton, M., Manea, V.C. and Bower, D., 2011, Plate Reconstructions with Continuously Closing Plates, Computers and Geosciences, in press.

Matthews, K. J., Hale, A.J., Gurnis, M., Müller, R.D. and DiCaprio, L., 2011, Dynamic subsidence of Eastern Australia during the Cretaceous, Gondwana Research 19, 372-383, doi:10.1016/j.gr.2010.06.006.

Herold, N., Huber, M., Greenwood, D.R. Müller, R.D. and Seton, M., 2011, Early to Middle Miocene monsoon climate in Australia, Geology 39, 3-6; doi: 10.1130/G31208.1.

2010

Herold, N., Müller, R.D. and Seton, M., 2010, Comparing early to middle Miocene terrestrial climate simulations with geological data, Geosphere, 6, 652­961; doi: 10.1130/GES00544.1

Shephard, G.E., Müller, R.D., Liu, L. and Gurnis, M., 2010, Miocene drainage reversal of the Amazon River driven by plate-mantle interaction, Nature Geoscience, 3, 870-875, DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1017

Whittaker, J. M., Müller, R.D. and Gurnis, M., 2010, Development of the Australian-Antarctic Depth Anomaly, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11, Q11006, doi:10.1029/2010GC003276.

Mjelde, R., Wessel, P. and Müller, R.D., 2010, Global pulsations of intraplate magmatism through the Cenozoic, Lithosphere, 2, no. 5, 361-376.

Müller, R.D., 2010, Geophysics: Sedimentary basins feeling the heat from below, Science, 329, 769-770.

Liu, L., Gurnis, M., Seton, M., Saleeby, J., Müller, R.D., Jackson, J.M., 2010, Predictions of oceanic plateau subduction beneath North America and new insights into the Laramide Orogeny,, Nature Geoscience, 3, 353-357. DOI: 10.1038/NGEO829.

Rey, P.F. and Müller, R.D., 2010, Fragmentation of Active Continental Plate Margins Owing to the Buoyancy of the Mantle Wedge, Nature Geoscience, 3, 257-261, DOI: 10.1038/NGEO825.

Whittaker, J., Williams S., Kusznir, N., and Müller R.D., 2010Restoring the continent-ocean boundary: constraints from lithospheric stretching grids and tectonic reconstructions, ASEG-PESA 21st international Geophysical Conference, Sydney, Australia, Short Research Paper 251.

Fabian, T., Whittaker, J., and Müller R.D., 2010, , Mapping Tertiary mid-ocean ridge subduction and slab formation beneath Sundaland using seismic tomography, ASEG-PESA 21st international Geophysical Conference, Sydney, Australia, Short Research Paper 251

Gibbons, A., Whittaker, J., and Müller R.D., 2010, Revised plate tectonic history of the west Australian margin reveals how the Gascoyne Terrane docked at West Burma, ASEG-PESA 21st international Geophysical Conference, Sydney, Australia, Short Research Paper 47

Landgrebe, T.C.W., Müller, R.D., and Williams, S., Knowledge discovery via a virtual geological observatory, eResearch Australasia 2010, 8-12 November 2010, Gold Coast, Australia.

Talsma, A., Müller, R.D., Bunge, H.-P., and Seton, M., The Geodynamic Evolution of the Junction Plate: Linking observations to high-resolution models, eResearch Australasia 2010, 8-12 November 2010, Gold Coast, Australia.

Di Caprio, L., Müller, R.D., and Gurnis, M., 2010, A dynamic process for drowning carbonate reefs on the Northeastern Australian Margin, Geology, 38, 11-14

Heine, C., Müller, R.D., DiCaprio, L. and Steinberger, B., in press, Integrating deep Earth dynamics in paleogeographic reconstructions of Australia, Tectonophysics, 483, 135-150

Müller, R.D., Sinking continents, Nature Geoscience


2009

Becker, T.W., Conrad, C.P., Buffett, B. and Müller, R.D., 2008, Past and present seafloor age distributions and the temporal evolution of plate tectonic heat transport , Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 278, 233-242

Di Caprio, L., Gurnis, M. and Müller, R.D., 2009, Long-wavelength Tilting of the Australian Continent since the Late Cretaceous, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 278, 175-185

Di Caprio, L., Müller, R.D., Gurnis, M. and Goncharov, A., 2009, Linking active margin dynamics to overriding plate deformation: Synthesizing geophysical images with geological data from the Norfolk Basin , Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 10, Q01004, doi:10.1029/2008GC002222

Herold, N., You, Y., Müller, R.D. and Sdrolias, M., 2009, Climate model sensitivity to changes in Miocene paleotopography, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 56, 1049-1059

Maus, S., U. Barckhausen, H. Berkenbosch, N. Bournas, J. Brozena,V.Childers, F. Dostaler, J. D. Fairhead, C. Finn, R. R. B. von Frese, C. Gaina, S. Golynsky, R. Kucks, H. Lühr, P. Milligan, S. Mogren, R. D. Müller, O. Olesen, M. Pilkington, R. Saltus, B. Schreckenberger, E., Thébault, and F. Caratori Tontini, 2009, EMAG2: A 2 arc min resolution Earth Magnetic Anomaly Grid compiled from satellite, airborne, and marine magnetic measurements, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 10, Q08005, doi:10.1029/2009GC002471.

Seton, M., Gaina, C., Müller, R.D. and Heine, C., 2009, Mid-Cretaceous seafloor spreading pulse: Fact or fiction?, Geology, 37, 687-690

Tong, J.A., You, Y., Müller, R.D. and Seton, M., 2009, Climate Model Sensitivity to Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations for the Middle Miocene, Global and Planetary Change, in press (accepted 3 February 2009)

You, Y., M. Huber, D. Müller, C.J. Poulsen, and J. Ribbe, 2009, Simulation of the Middle Miocene climate optimum, Geophysical Research Letters,, 36, L04702, doi:10.1029/2008GL036571


2008
Clark, S.R., and Müller, R.D., 2008, Convection models with imposed plate motion and thermal histories, Journal of Geodynamics , 46, 1-9

Clark, S.R., Stegman, D. and Müller, R.D., 2008, Episodicity in back-arc tectonic regimes, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Special Volume on Computational Geology and Geodynamics, edited by B.J.P. Kaus, T.V. Gerya and D.W. Schmid, 171, 265-279

Dyksterhuis, S., and Müller, R.D., 2008, Cause and evolution of intraplate orogeny in Australia, Geology 36, 495-498

Heine, C., Müller, R.D., Steinberger, B. and Torsvik, T., 2008, Anomalous subsidence in intracontinental basins, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Special Volume on Computational Geology and Geodynamics, edited by B.J.P. Kaus, T.V. Gerya and D.W. Schmid, 171, 252-264

Heine, C., and Müller, R. D., 2008, The IntraCONtinental basinS (ICONS) atlas: applications in eastern Australia, Eastern Australasian Basins III, Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Special Publ., 275-290.

Herold, N., Seton, M., Müller, R.D., You, Y. and Huber, M., 2008, Middle Miocene tectonic boundary conditions for use in climate models, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol 9, 10, Q10009, doi:10.1029/2008GC002046.

Maus, S., Yin, F., Lühr, H., Manoj, C., Rother, M., Rauberg, J., Michaelis, I., Stolle, C. and Müller, R.D., 2008, Resolution of direction of oceanic magnetic lineations by the sixth-generation lithospheric magnetic field model from CHAMP satellite magnetic measurements, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol 9, 7, Q07021, doi:10.1029/2008GC001949.

Müller, R.D., Sdrolias, M., Gaina, C. Steinberger, B. and Heine, C., 2008, Long-Term Sea-Level Fluctuations Driven by Ocean Basin Dynamics, Science, , 319, 1357-1362, DOI: 10.1126/science.115154.

Müller, R.D., Sdrolias, M., Gaina, C. and Roest, W.R., 2008, Age, spreading rates and spreading asymmetry of the world's ocean crust, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9, Q04006, doi:10.1029/2007GC001743.

Rey, P., and Müller, R. D., 2008, Tectonic Evolution of Eastern Australian Marginal Basins, Eastern Australasian Basins III, Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Special Publ., 267-270.

Seton, M., and Müller, R. D., 2008, Reconstructing the junction between Panthalassa and Tethys since the Early Cretaceous, Eastern Australasian Basins III, Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Special Publ., 263-266.

Spasojevic, S., Liu, L., Gurnis, M., and Müller, R.D. 2008, The case for dynamic subsidence of the U.S. east coast since the Eocene, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L08305, doi:10.1029/2008GL033511.

Torsvik, T.H., Müller, R.D., Van der Voo, R., Steinberger, B. and Gaina, C. 2008, Global plate motion frames: Toward a unified model, Reviews of Geophysics, 46, RG3004/2008.

Whittaker, J., Müller, R. D., Roest, W.R., Wessel, P. and Smith, W.H.F., 2008 How supercontinents and superoceans affect seafloor roughness, Nature456: 938-942.

Whittaker, J., Müller, R. D., and Gonchorov, A., 2008, Australian-Antarctic rifting, Eastern Australasian Basins III, Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Special Publ., 271-274.

Whittaker, J.M., Müller, R.D., Leitchenkov, G., Stagg, H., Sdrolias, M., Gaina, C., and Goncharov, A., 2008, Response to comment on "major Australian-Antarctic plate reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor bend time" , Science, v. 321, p. U23-U24.

Xie, X., Müller, R.D., Ren, J., Jiang, T., and Zhang, C., 2008, Stratigraphic architecture and evolution of the continental slope system in offshore Hainan, northern South China Sea, Marine Geology, 247, 129-144

2007
Dyksterhuis, S., Rey, P., Müller, R.D., & Moresi, L. 2007, Effects of Initial Weakness on Rift Architecture, In: Imaging, Mapping and Modelling Continental Lithosphere Extension and Breakup, eds: Karner, G., Manatschal, G. and Pinheiro, L., Geological Society of London Special Publication, 282, 443-455, DOI: 10.1144/SP282.18

Dyksterhuis, S., Müller, R.D., Rey, P. and Moresi, L., 2007, A Graphical User Interface for Particle-in-Cell Finite Element Analysis of lithospheric deformation and mantle convection in two dimensions, Computers and Geosciences, 33, 1088-1093.

Gaina, C, Müller, R.D., Brown, B., Ishihara, T. and Ivanov, S., 2007, Breakup and early seafloor spreading between India and Antarctica, Antarctica, Geophysical Journal International, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03450.x, 1-19.

Gaina, C. and Müller, R.D., 2007, Cenozoic tectonic and depth/age evolution of the Indonesian gateway and associated back-arc basins, Earth Science Reviews, 83, 177-203.

Goyette, S., Takatsuka, M., Clark, S., Müller, R.D., Rey, P., and Stegman, D., 2007, Increasing the Usability and Accessibility of Geodynamic Modelling Tools to the Geoscience Community: UnderworldGUI, Visual Geosciences, DOI 10.1007/s10069-007-0006-3.

Müller, R.D., 2007, An Indian Cheetah, Nature 449, 795-797.

Müller, R.D. and Eagles, S., 2007, Mapping seabed geology by textural image/neural network classification of acoustic backscatter mosaics, Mathematical Geology 39, (6).

Müller, R.D., Gohl, K., Cande, S.C., Goncharov, A. and Golynsky, A., 2007, Eocene to Miocene geometry of the West Antarctic Rift System, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 54, 1033-1045

Müller, R.D., Eagles, S., Hogarth, P., Hughes, M. 2007, Automated Textural Image Analysis of Seabed Backscatter Mosaics: A Comparison of Four Methodologies, In: G. Greene & Todd, B. Marine Benthic Habitat Mapping. Mapping the Seafloor for Habitat Characterization Geological Society of Canada, Special Paper 47. p.43-62

Müller, R.D. and Dyksterhuis, S., 2007, Current and palaeo-stress models for central Australian Basins, In: Proceedings of the Central Australian Basins Symposium, Alice Springs, August, 2005 eds: Munson TJ and Ambrose GJ, Northern Territory Geological Survey Special Publication 2, 1-9.

Wessel, P., & Müller, R.D. 2007, Plate Tectonics, In: Treatise on Geophysics Elsevier Vol 6. 49-98

Whittaker, J., Müller, R.D., Leitchenkov, G., Stagg, H., Sdrolias, M., Gaina, C. and Goncharov, A., 2007, Major Australian-Antarctica Plate Reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor Bend Time, Science, 318, 83-86, DOI: 10.1126/science.1143769

Whittaker, J., Müller, R.D., Sdrolias, M. and Heine, C., 2007, Sunda-Java trench kinematics, slab window formation and overriding plate deformation since the Cretaceous, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 255, 445-457, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.12.031

Xie X., Tao, C., Müller, R.D., Xiurong, G., Xiaofeng, L. and Cheng, Z., 2007, Subsidence history and forming mechanism of anomalous tectonic subsidence in the Bozhong depression, Bohaiwan basin, Science in China 50 (9), 1310-1318

2006
Brown, B., Gaina, C. and Müller, R.D., 2006, Circum-Antarctic palaeobathymetry: illustrated examples from Cenozoic to Recent times, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology, 231, 158-168.

O'Neill, C., Moresi, L., Müller, R.D., Albert, R. and Dufour, F., 2006, Ellipsis 3D: a particle-in-cell finite element hybrid code for modelling mantle convection and lithospheric deformation, Computers and Geosciences, 32, 1769-1799.

Sdrolias, M. and Müller, R.D., 2006, Controls on back-arc basin formation, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. Vol. 7, Q04016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2005GC001090.

Whittaker, J. and Müller, R.D., 2006, Seismic Stratigraphy of the Adare Trough Area, Antarctica, Marine Geology, 230, 179-197

Whittaker, J. and Müller, R.D., 2006, Seismic Stratigraphy of the Adare Trough Area, Antarctica, Marine Geology, 230, 179-197

Xie, X., Müller, R.D., Li, S., Gong, Z., and Steinberger, B., 2006, Origin of anomalous subsidence along the northern South China Sea Margin and its relationship to dynamic topography, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 23, 745-765.

2005
Dyksterhuis, S., Müller, R.D. and Albert, R., 2005, Palaeo-stress field evolution of the Australian continent since the Eocene, Journal of Geophysical Research. 110, B05102 doi:10.1029/2003JB002728, 13pp

Dyksterhuis, S., Albert, R. and Müller, R.D., 2005, Finite element modelling of intraplate stress using ABAQUS, Computers and Geosciences 31, 297-307.

Finn, C.A., Müller, R.D., and Panter, K. S., 2005, A Cenozoic alkaline magmatic province in the SW Pacific without rift or plume origin, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 6, No 1, doi:10.1029/2004GC000723, 26pp.

Heine, C., and Müller, R.D., 2005, Late Jurassic Rifting Along the Australian Northwest Shelf: Margin Geometery and Spreading Ridge Configuration, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 52, 27-39

Müller, R.D., Cande, S.C., Stock, J.M., and Keller, W.R., 2005, Crustal Structure and Rift Flank Uplift of the Adare Trough, Antarctica, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 6, Q11010, doi:10.1029/2005GC00102

Müller, R.D., Goncharov, A., and Kritski, A., 2005, Geophysical Evaluation of the Enigmatic Bedout Basement High, Offshore Northwestern Australia, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 237, 264-284

O'Neill, C., Müller, R.D., and Steinberger, B., 2005, On the uncertainties in hotspot reconstructions, and the significance of moving hotspot reference frames, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 6, No 4, doi:10.1029/2004GC000784, 35pp.

2004
Dyksterhuis, S., and Müller, R.D., 2004, Modelling the contemporaneous and palaeo stress field of Australia using finite element modelling with automatic optimisation, Exploration Geophysics 35 (4) 236-241.

Heine, Ch., Müller, R.D., Gaina, C., 2004, Reconstructing the Lost Eastern Tethys Ocean Basin: Convergence history of the SE Asian margin and marine gateways, In: P. Clift et al. (eds.), Continent-Ocean Interactions in Southeast Asia, AGU Monograph. 149, 37-54.

Sdrolias, M., Roest, W.R. and Müller, R.D., 2004, An Expression of Philippine Sea Plate Rotation: the Parece Vela and Shikoku Basins, Tectonophysics 394, 69-86.

Sdrolias, M., Müller, R.D., Mauffret, A., and Bernardel, G. 2004, The enigmatic formation of the Norfolk Basin, SW Pacific: A plume influence on back-arc extension, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems Vol. 5, No. 6, 28pp.

Zhao, S., Müller, R.D., Takahashi, Y., and Kaneda, Y. 2004, 3D finite element modelling of deformation and stress associated with faulting: Effect of inhomogeneous crustal structures, Geophysical Journal International 157, 629-644.

2003
Baldwin, S., White, N. and Müller, R.D., 2003, Resolving multiple rift phases using strain rate inversion in the Bonaparte Basin and the North West Shelf of Australia, In: Hillis R.R. & Müller R.D. eds. Evolution and Dynamics of the Australian Plate. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 22 and Geological Society of America Special Paper 372, 245-263.

Brown, B., Müller, R.D., Struckmeyer, H.I.M., Gaina, C., Stagg, H. and Symonds, P., 2003, Formation and evolution of Australian passive margins: Implications for locating the boundary between continental and oceanic crust, In: Hillis R.R. & Müller R.D. eds. Evolution and Dynamics of the Australian Plate. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 22 and Geological Society of America Special Paper 372, 223-243.

Gaina, C., Müller, R.D. Brown, B. and Ishihara, T., 2003, Microcontinent formation around Australia, In: Hillis R.R. & Müller R.D. eds. Evolution and Dynamics of the Australian Plate. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 22 and Geological Society of America Special Paper 372, 405-416.

Gurnis, M. and Müller, R.D., 2003, Origin of the Australian Antarctic Discordance from an ancient slab and mantle wedge, In: Hillis R.R. & Müller R.D. eds. Evolution and Dynamics of the Australian Plate. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 22 and Geological Society of America Special Paper 372, 417-429.

Hall, C.E., Gurnis, M., Sdrolias, M., Lavier, L.L. and Müller, R.D., 2003, Catastrophic initiation of subduction following forced convergence at transform boundaries. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 212, 15-30.

Hillis, R. and Müller, R.D., 2003, The Evolution and Dynamics of the Australian Plate, Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 22 and Geological Society of America Special Paper 372, 432 pp.
Müller, R.D., 2003, Marine geo-informatics, In: From Zero to Infinity, eds: J.A. Nicholls and B.A. Pailthorpe, The Science Foundation for Physics, 107-120.

Müller, R.D., 2003, Understanding how the Earth works: A geodynamic revolution based on Linux computing, In: From Zero to Infinity, eds: J.A. Nicholls and B.A. Pailthorpe, The Science Foundation for Physics, 99-106.

O'Neill, C., Müller, R.D. and Steinberger, B., 2003, Revised Indian Plate Rotations Based On The Motion Of Indian Ocean Hotspots. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 215, 151-168.

Sdrolias, M., Müller R.D. and Gaina, C., 2003, Tectonic Evolution of the Southwest Pacific Using Constraints from Back-arc Basins, In: Hillis R.R. & Müller R.D. eds. Evolution and Dynamics of the Australian Plate. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 22 and Geological Society of America Special Paper 372, 343-359.

Zhao, S. and Müller, R. D., 2003, Three-dimensional finite element modelling of the tectonic stress field in continental Australia, In: Hillis R.R. & Müller R.D. eds. Evolution and Dynamics of the Australian Plate. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 22 and Geological Society of America Special Paper 372, 71-89.

2002
Coffin, M.F., Pringle, M.S., Duncan, R.A., Gladczenko, T.P., Storey, M., Müller, R.D. and Gahagan, L.M., 2002, Kerguelen Hotspot Magma Output Since 130 Ma, Journal of Petrology, 43, 1121-1139.

Gaina, C., Roest, W.R. and Müller, R.D., 2002, Late Cretaceous - Cenozoic deformation of northeast Asia (2.7Mb), Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 197, 273-286.

Kent, R.W., Pringle, M.S., Müller, R.D., Saunders, A.D. and Ghose, N.C., 2002, 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of the Rajmahal basalts, India, and their relationship to the Kerguelen Plateau, Journal of Petrology, 43, 1141-1153.

Müller, R. D., Mihut, D., Heine, C., O'Neill, C. and Russell, I., 2002, Tectonic and volcanic history of the Carnarvon Terrace: Constraints from seismic interpretation and geodynamic modelling, In: The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia 3, ed: Gorter, J., Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Perth, 719-740.

2001
Brown, B., Müller, R.D. and Struckmeyer, H.I.M., 2001, Anomalous tectonic subsidence of the southern Australian passive margin: response to Cretaceous dynamic topography or differential lithospheric stretching?, Eastern Australasian Basins, ed. by K. Hill and T. Bernecker, Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Special Publ., The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Carlton, VIC, 563-569.

Moresi, L., Müller, R.D. and Hobbs, B., 2001, Exploration Geodynamics Chapman Conference, Dunsborough, WA, Australia, 19-24 August, 2001, published by the American Geophysical Union.

Müller, R.D., Gaina, C, Roest, W.R. and Lundbek Hansen, D., 2001, A recipe for microcontinent formation, Geology, 29, 203-206.

Sdrolias, M., Müller, R. D. and Gaina, C., 2001, Tectonic Evolution of Eastern Australian Marginal Basins, Eastern Australasian Basins, ed. by K. Hill and T. Bernecker, Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Special Publ., The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Carlton, VIC, 227-238.

Zhao, S. and Müller, R. D., 2001, The tectonic stress field in eastern Australia, Eastern Australasian Basins, ed. by K. Hill and T. Bernecker, Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Special Publ., The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Carlton, VIC, 61-70.

2000
Cande, S.C., Stock, J.M., Müller, R.D. and Ishihara, T., 2000, Cenozoic motion between East and West Antarctica, Nature, 404, 145-150.

Frey, F.A., Coggin, M.F., Wallace, P.J., Weis, D., Zhao, X., Wise, S.W., Waehnert, V., Teagle, D.A.H., Sacocia, P.J., Reusch, D.N., Pringle, M.S., Nicolaysen, K.E., Neal, C.R., Müller, R.D, Moore, C.L., Mahoney, J.J., Keszthelyi, L., Inokuchi, H., Duncan, R.A., Delius, H., Damuth, J.E., Damasceno, D., Coxall, H.K., Borre, M.K., Boehm, F., Barling, J., Arndt, N.T. and Antretter, M., 2000, Origin and evolution of a submarine large igneous province: the Kerguelen Plateau and Broken Ridge, southern Indian Ocean, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 176, 73-89.

Gaina, C., Müller, R.D. and Cande, S.C., 2000, Absolute plate motion, mantle flow and volcanism at the boundary between the Pacific and Indian Ocean mantle domains since 90 Ma, American Geophysical Union Monograph 121, The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, 189-210.

Gurnis, M., Moresi, L. and Müller, R.D, 2000, Models of mantle convection incorporating plate tectonics: The Australian Region since the Cretaceous, American Geophysical Union Monograph 121, The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, 211-238.

Müller, R.D., Gaina, C. and Clarke, S., Seafloor spreading around Australia, 2000, In: Billion-year earth history of Australia and neighbours in Gondwanaland, ed. J. Veevers, Gemoc Press. Sydney, 18-28.

Müller, R.D., Gaina, C., Tikku, A., Mihut, D., Cande, S.C. and Stock, J.M., 2000, Mesozoic/Cenozoic tectonic events around Australia, American Geophysical Union Monograph 121, The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, 161-188.

Müller, R.D., Lim, V. and Isern, A., 2000, Late Tertiary tectonic subsidence of the Queensland Plateau: response to dynamic topography? (2.6Mb) Marine Geology, 337-352.

1999
Gaina, C., Müller, R.D., Royer, J.-Y. and Symonds, P., 1999, The evolution of the Louisiade Triple Junction, Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, 12927-12939.

Müller, R.D., Cande, S.C., Royer, J.-Y., Roest, W.R. and Maschenkov, S., 1999, New constraints on the Late Cretaceous/Tertiary plate tectonic evolution of the Caribbean, in: Caribbean Basins. Sedimentary basins of the world, 4, Ed. P. Mann, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, p. 39-55.

1998
Cande, S., Stock, J., Raymond, C. and Müller, R.D., 1998, New constraints on an old plate tectonic puzzle of the Southwest Pacific, EOS, 79, 81-82.

Gaina, C., Roest, W., Müller, R.D. and Symonds, P.A., 1998, The opening of the Tasman Sea: A gravity anomaly grid animation, Earth Interactions, 2-004, 1-23.

Gaina, C., Müller, R.D., Royer, J.-Y., Stock, J., Hardebeck, and J. Symonds, P.A., 1998, The tectonic history of the Tasman Sea: a puzzle with 13 pieces, Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 12413-12433.

Gurnis, M., Müller, R.D. and Moresi, L., 1998, Dynamics of Cretaceous to the Present Vertical Motion of Australia and the Origin of the Australian-Antarctic Discordance, Science, 279, 1499-1504.

Mihut, D. and Müller, R.D, 1998, Revised seafloor spreading history of the Argo Abyssal Plain, In: The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia 2, ed: Purcell P.G. and R.R., Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Perth, 73-80.

Mihut, D. and Müller, R.D., 1998, Volcanic margin formation and Mesozoic rift propagators in the Cuvier abyssal plain off Western Australia. Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 27135-27150.

Müller, R.D., Mihut, D. and Baldwin, S., 1998, A new kinematic model for the formation and evolution of the Northwest and West Australian margin, In: The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia 2, ed: Purcell P.G. and R.R., Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Perth, 55-72.

Müller, R.D., Roest, W.R. and Royer, J.-Y., 1998, Asymmetric seafloor spreading expresses ridge-plume interactions, Nature, 396, 455-459.

1997
Müller, R.D., Overkov, N., Royer, J.-Y., Dutkiewicz, A. and Keene, J., 1997, Seabed classification of the South Tasman Rise from SIMRAD EM12 backscatter data using artificial neural networks, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 44, 689-700.

Müller, R.D., Roest, W.R., Royer, J.-Y., Gahagan, L.M. and Sclater, J.G., 1997, Digital isochrons of the world's ocean floor, Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 3211-3214.

1994
Lawver, L.A. and Müller, R.D., 1994, The Iceland hotspot track, Geology, 22, 311-314.

Müller, R.D., Royer, J.-Y. and Lawver, L.A., 1994, Revised Plate Motions Relative to the Hotspots from Combined Atlantic and Indian Ocean Hotspot Tracks, Comment and Reply, Geology, 22, 276-278.

1993
Müller, R.D. and Smith, W.H.F., 1993, Deformation of the oceanic crust between the North American and South American plates, Journal of Geophysical Research, 93, 8275-8292.

Müller, R.D., Royer, J.-Y. and Lawver, L.A., 1993, Revised Plate Motions Relative to the Hotspots from Combined Atlantic and Indian Ocean Hotspot Tracks, Geology, 21, 275-278

1992
Müller, R.D. and Roest, W.R , 1992, Fracture Zones in the North Atlantic from combined Geosat and Seasat data, Journal of Geophysical Research, 97, 3337-3350.

Royer, J.-Y., Sclater, J.G., Sandwell, D.T., Cande, S.C., Schlich, R., Munschy, M., Dyment, J., Fisher, R.L., Müller, R.D., Coffin, M.F., Patriat, P. and Bergh, H.W., 1992, Indian Ocean Plate Reconstructions Since the Late Jurassic, in Duncan, R.A. et al., The Indian Ocean: A Synthethis of Results from the Ocean Drilling Program, Geophysical Monograph 70, American Gephysical Union (Washington, D.C.), 471-475.

Roest, W.R., Müller, R.D. and Verhoef, J., 1992, Age of the ocean floor: A digital data set for the Labrador Sea and Western North Atlantic, Geoscience Canada, 19, 27-32.

1991
Nürnberg, D. and Müller, R.D., 1991, The Tectonic Evolution of the South Atlantic.from Late Jurassic to Present, Tectonophysics, 191, 27-53.

Müller, R.D., Sandwell, D.T., Tucholke, B.E., Sclater, J.G. and Shaw, P.R., 1991, Depth to Basement and Geoid Expression of the Kane Fracture Zone: A Comparison. Marine Geophysical Researches, 13, 105-129

1990
Lawver, L.A, Müller, R.D., Roest, W. R. and Srivastava, S. P., 1990, The Opening of the Arctic Ocean, in: U. Bleil and J. Thiede, eds., Geological History of the Polar Oceans: Arctic Versus Antarctic, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 29-62.

Müller, R.D. and Spielhagen, R.F., 1990, Evolution of the Central Tertiary Basin of Spitsbergen: Towards a Synthesis of Sediment and Plate Tectonic History. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, 80, 153-172.

1988
Gahagan, L.M., Scotese, C.R., Royer, J.-Y., Sandwell, D.T., Winn, J.K., Tomlins, R.L., Ross, M.I., Newman, J.S., Müller, R.D., Mayes, C.L., Lawver, L.A. and Heubeck, C.E., 1988, Tectonic Fabric Map of the Ocean Basins From Satellite Altimetry Data,, Tectonophysics, 155, 1-26.