Here are all the latest EarthByte news posts. See News Archive for recent years.
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Morra, G., Quevedo, L., & Müller, R. D. (2012). Spherical dynamic models of top‐down tectonics. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 13(3). doi:10.1029/2011GC003843. Download the paper – pdf
Williams, S. E., Müller, R. D., Landgrebe, T. C., & Whittaker, J. M. (2012). An open-source software environment for visualizing and refining plate tectonic reconstructions using high-resolution geological and geophysical data sets.GSA Today, 22(4/5), 4-9. doi:10.1130/GSATG139A.1. Download the paper – pdf
Congratulations to Grace Shephard for being selected to participate in the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, which is dedicated to Physics this year. Only the 592 most qualified Young Researchers can be given the opportunity to enrich and share the unique atmosphere of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. Congratulations Grace! Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings website
Adrianna Rajkumar begins her PhD with Prof Geoff Clarke and Prof Jonathan Aitchison (The University of Queensland). The title of Adrianna’s PhD thesis is ‘High to ultra-high pressure metamorphism associated with closure of the Tethys in the Himalayan-Tibetan region’.
Herold, N., Huber, M., Müller, R. D., & Seton, M. (2012). Modeling the Miocene climatic optimum: Ocean circulation. Paleoceanography, 27(1). doi:10.1029/2010PA002041. Download the paper – pdf
EarthByte is pleased to welcome Sascha Brune from GFZ Potsdam for a 2 week research visit.
Congratulations to Kara Matthews who has been awarded the prestigious Chris Powell Medal for Postgraduate Research in Tectonics and Structural Geology from the Geological Society of Australia. She was presented her medal at a meeting of the Specialist Group in Tectonics & Structural Geology in Waratah Bay, Victoria. Well done Kara! Download the paper – … Read more…
A new Interridge working group on “Drivers of the Episodic life-cycle of Intra-oceanic Arc-Backarc Hydrothermal Systems” chaired by Maria Seton has been approved by Interridge. Other EarthByte members involved in the working group are Dietmar Muller, Jo Whitakker and Jonathan Aitchison.
Müller, R. D., Dyksterhuis, S., & Rey, P. (2012). Australian paleo-stress fields and tectonic reactivation over the past 100 Ma. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 59(1), 13-28. doi:10.1080/08120099.2011.605801. Download the paper – pdf
An IODP workshop on the SW Pacific to be hosted ay the University of Sydney has been approved. The workshop, led by Neville Exon, Stephen Gallagher and Maria Seton will see ~70 scientists from around the world come to USyd for a 4-day workshop in October 2012. Date and time: 2012 October 9-11 Venue: Veterinary … Read more…
Shephard, G. E., Liu, L., Müller, R. D., & Gurnis, M. (2012). Dynamic topography and anomalously negative residual depth of the Argentine Basin.Gondwana Research, 22(2), 658-663. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2011.12.005. Download the paper – pdf
Gurnis, M., Turner, M., Zahirovic, S., DiCaprio, L., Spasojevic, S., Müller, R. D., … & Bower, D. J. (2012). Plate tectonic reconstructions with continuously closing plates. Computers & Geosciences, 38(1), 35-42. doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2011.04.014. We present a new algorithm for modeling a self-consistent set of global plate polygons. Each plate polygon is composed of a finite list … Read more…
Shephard, G. E., Bunge, H. P., Schuberth, B. S., Müller, R. D., Talsma, A. S., Moder, C., & Landgrebe, T. C. W. (2012). Testing absolute plate reference frames and the implications for the generation of geodynamic mantle heterogeneity structure. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 317, 204-217. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.11.027. Download the paper – pdf
Matthews, K. J., Müller, R. D., Wessel, P., & Whittaker, J. M. (2011). The tectonic fabric of the ocean basins. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (1978–2012), 116(B12). doi:10.1029/2011JB008413. Download the paper – pdf
Goes, S., Capitanio, F. A., Morra, G., Seton, M., & Giardini, D. (2011). Signatures of downgoing plate-buoyancy driven subduction in Cenozoic plate motions. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 184(1), 1-13. doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2010.10.007. Link to download the paper from Science Direct
Flament, N., Rey, P. F., Coltice, N., Dromart, G., & Olivier, N. (2011). Lower crustal flow kept Archean continental flood basalts at sea level. Geology,39(12), 1159-1162. doi:10.1130/G32231.1. Download the paper – pdf
Maria Seton is attending the Third Decadal Plan Interridge meeting in San Francisco.
EarthByte group members Dietmar Müller, Adriana Dutkiewicz, Nicolas Flament, Leonardo Quevedo, Maria Seton, Simon Williams, Nathaniel Butterworth, Kayla Maloney and Kara Matthews are attending the AGU Fall Meeting 2011 in San Francisco, USA from 5-9 December, 2011. Click here for more details about the AGU Fall Meeting
Hoernle, K., Hauff, F., Werner, R., van den Bogaard, P., Gibbons, A. D., Conrad, S., & Müller, R. D. (2011). Origin of Indian Ocean Seamount Province by shallow recycling of continental lithosphere. Nature Geoscience, 4(12), 883-887. doi:10.1038/ngeo1331. Download the paper – link
Ana Gibbons, Dietmar Müller and colleagues from IfM-GEOMAR Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Germany research into Indian Ocean Cocktail Party leaves trail of party hats behind has been highlighted on the USyd News page. See the USyd News article ‘Indian Ocean Cocktail Party leaves trail of party hats behind’ here
Landgrebe, T. C. W., & Muller, R. D. (2011, December). A Spatio-Temporal Knowledge-Discovery Platform for Earth-Science Data, Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications (DICTA). In 2011 International Conference on (pp. 6-8). doi:10.1109/DICTA.2011.73. Download the paper – pdf
Kara Matthews’ microplates project is featured and the GPlates software itself is also highlighted in the ‘Stories of Australian Science’ publication for 2011. Download the paper – pdf
Kara Matthews’ microplates project is featured and the GPlates software itself is also highlighted in the ‘Stories of Australian Science’ publication for 2011. Download the paper – pdf
Sabin Zahirovic’s India-Asia collision project is featured and the GPlates software itself is also highlighted in the ‘Stories of Australian Science’ publication for 2011. Download the paper – pdf
Sabin Zahirovic’s India-Asia collision project is featured and the GPlates software itself is also highlighted in the ‘Stories of Australian Science’ publication for 2011. Download the paper – pdf
Congratulations to Nicolas Flament and Patrice Rey for their interesting Geology paper on subaqueous continental flood basalts. Download the paper – link
Congratulations to the EarthByte group who has been successful in two multi-Chief Investigator Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities grant submissions. Well done!
EarthByte research into the tilting of the Australian continent toward the northeast over the past 50 million years has been featured in the ‘Nature Geoscience’ research highlights section. Download the paper – link
Congratulations to Maria Seton and her team who have been successful in a bid for ~$1M in ship time on the Southern Surveyor, the Australian Marine National Facility. Maria and her team will investigate the ‘Tectonic framework for the easternmost Coral Sea and northern extent of the Lord Howe hotspot’ during a ~3-week long cruise … Read more…
DiCaprio, L., Gurnis, M., Müller, R. D., & Tan, E. (2011). Mantle dynamics of continentwide Cenozoic subsidence and tilting of Australia. Lithosphere, 3(5), 311-316. doi: 10.1130/L140.1. Download the paper – pdf