Publications

Earth and Planetary Science Letters – Reconstructing Ontong Java Nui: Implications for Pacific absolute plate motion, hotspot drift and true polar wander

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Chandler, M. T., Wessel, P., Taylor, B., Seton, M., Kim, S. S., & Hyeong, K. (2012). Reconstructing Ontong Java Nui: Implications for Pacific absolute plate motion, hotspot drift and true polar wander. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 331, 140-151. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.03.017. Download the paper – pdf

G-Cubed – Insights on the kinematics of the India-Eurasia collision from global geodynamic models

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Zahirovic, S., Müller, R. D., Seton, M., Flament, N., Gurnis, M., & Whittaker, J. (2012). Insights on the kinematics of the India‐Eurasia collision from global geodynamic models. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 13(4). doi:10.1029/2011GC003883. Download the paper – pdf

GSA Today – An open-source software environment for visualizing and refining plate tectonic reconstructions using high resolution geological and geophysical data sets

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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

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences – Australian paleo-stress fields and tectonic reactivation over the past 100 Ma

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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

Gondwana Research Letters – Dynamic topography and anomalously negative residual depth of the Argentine Basin

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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

Computers and Geosciences – Plate Reconstructions with Continuously Closing Plates

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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…

Earth and Planetary Science Letters – Testing absolute plate reference frames and the implications for the generation of geodynamic mantle heterogeneity structure

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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

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors – Signatures of downgoing plate-buoyancy driven subduction in Cenozoic plate motions

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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

Nature Geoscience – Origin of Indian Ocean Seamount Province by shallow recycling of continental lithosphere

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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

DICTA – A spatio-temporal knowledge-discovery platform for Earth-Science data

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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

Journal of Metamorphic Geology – Crustal growth during back-arc closure: Cretaceous exhumation history of Cordillera Darwin, southern Patagonia

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Maloney, K. T., Clarke, G. L., Klepeis, K. A., Fanning, C. M., & Wang, W. (2011). Crustal growth during back‐arc closure: Cretaceous exhumation history of Cordillera Darwin, southern Patagonia. Journal of Metamorphic Geology,29(6), 649-672. doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2011.00934.x. Download the paper – pdf

Cambridge University Press – Next-generation plate-tectonic reconstructions using GPlates

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Boyden, J., Müller, R. D., Gurnis, M., Torsvik, T. H., Clark, J. A., Turner, M., … & Cannon, J. S. (2011). Next-generation plate-tectonic reconstructions using GPlates. Geoinformatics: Cyberinfrastructure for the Solid Earth Sciences. Keller, G. R., & Baru, C. (Eds.). (2011). Geoinformatics: cyberinfrastructure for the solid Earth sciences. Cambridge University Press. Download the paper – pdf