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Alignment between seafloor spreading directions and absolute plate motions through time
Williams, Simon E; Flament, Nicolas; Muller, R. DietmarPublished 2016-02-28The history of seafloor spreading in the ocean basins provides a detailed record of relative motions between Earth's tectonic plates since Pangea breakup. Determining how tectonic plates have moved relative to the Earth's ...Open AccessArticle -
The Dynamic Topography of Eastern China Since the Latest Jurassic Period
Cao, Xianzhi; Flament, Nicolas; Muller, R. Dietmar; Li, ShanzhongPublished 2018-05-05Some changes in the topography of eastern China since Late Jurassic times cannot be well explained by lithospheric deformation. Here we analyze global mantle flow models to investigate how mantle-driven long-wavelength ...Open AccessArticle -
Dynamic topography of passive continental margins and their hinterlands since the Cretaceous
Muller, R. Dietmar; Hassan, Rakib; Gurnis, Michael; Flament, Nicolas; Williams, Simon EPublished 2018-01-01Even though it is well accepted that the Earth's surface topography has been affected by mantle-convection induced dynamic topography, its magnitude and time-dependence remain controversial. The dynamic influence to ...Open AccessArticle -
Formation of Australian continental margin highlands driven by plate-mantle interaction
Muller, R. Dietmar; Flament, Nicolas; Matthews, Kara J; Williams, Simon E; Gurnis, MichaelPublished 2016-05-01Passive margin highlands occur on most continents on Earth and play a critical role in the cycle of weathering, erosion, and atmospheric circulation. Yet, in contrast to the well-developed understanding of collisional ...Article -
Geodynamic reconstruction of an accreted Cretaceous back-arc basin in the Northern Andes
Braz, Carmen; Seton, Maria; Flament, Nicolas; Muller, R. DietmarPublished 2018-09-05A complex history of subduction, back-arc basin formation, terrane accretion and transpressional shearing characterizes the evolution of the Caribbean and northern South American margin since Jurassic times. Quantitative ...Open AccessArticle -
Global kinematics of tectonic plates and subduction zones since the late Paleozoic Era
Young, Alexander; Flament, Nicolas; Maloney, Kayla T.; Williams, Simon E; Matthews, Kara J; Zahirovic, Sabin; Muller, R. DietmarPublished 2019-08-15Detailed global plate motion models that provide a continuous description of plate boundaries through time are an effective tool for exploring processes both at and below the Earth's surface. A new generation of numerical ...Open AccessArticle -
Global tectonic reconstructions with continuously deforming and evolving rigid plates
Gurnis, Michael; Yang, Ting; Cannon, John S; Turner, Mark; Williams, Simon E; Flament, Nicolas; Muller, R. DietmarPublished 2018-07-01Traditional plate reconstruction methodologies do not allow for plate deformation to be considered. Here we present software to construct and visualize global tectonic reconstructions with deforming plates within the context ...Open AccessArticle -
The GPlates Portal: Cloud-Based Interactive 3D Visualization of Global Geophysical and Geological Data in a Web Browser
Muller, R. Dietmar; Qin, Xiaodong; Sandwell, David T; Dutkiewicz, Adriana; Williams, Simon E; Flament, Nicolas; Maus, Stefan; Seton, MariaPublished 2016-03-03The pace of scientific discovery is being transformed by the availability of 'big data' and open access, open source software tools. These innovations open up new avenues for how scientists communicate and share data and ...Open AccessArticle -
Improving global paleogeography since the late Paleozoic using paleobiology
Cao, Wenchao; Zahirovic, Sabin; Flament, Nicolas; Williams, Simon E; Golonka, Jan; Muller, R. DietmarPublished 2017-12-04Paleogeographic reconstructions are important to understand Earth's tectonic evolution, past eustatic and regional sea level change, paleoclimate and ocean circulation, deep Earth resources and to constrain and interpret ...Open AccessArticle -
Influence of mantle flow on the drainage of eastern Australia since the Jurassic Period
Salles, Tristan; Flament, Nicolas; Muller, R. DietmarPublished 2017-01-01Recent studies of the past eastern Australian landscape from present-day longitudinal river profiles and from mantle flow models suggest that the interaction of plate motion with mantle convection accounts for the two ...Open AccessArticle -
The interplay of dynamic topography and eustasy on continental flooding in the late Paleozoic
Cao, Wenchao; Flament, Nicolas; Zahirovic, Sabin; Williams, Simon E; Muller, R. DietmarPublished 2019-06-20Global sea level change can be inferred from sequence stratigraphic and continental flooding data. These methods reconstruct sea level from peri-cratonic and cratonic basins that are assumed to be tectonically stable and ...Open AccessArticle -
Large fluctuations of shallow seas in low-lying Southeast Asia driven by mantle flow
Zahirovic, Sabin; Flament, Nicolas; Muller, R. Dietmar; Seton, Maria; Gurnis, MichaelPublished 2016-09-13The Sundaland continental promontory, as the core of Southeast Asia, is one of the lowest lying continental regions, with half of the continental area presently inundated by a shallow sea. The role of mantle convection in ...Open AccessArticle -
Quantitative stratigraphic analysis in a source-to-sink numerical framework
Ding, Xuesong; Salles, Tristan B; Flament, Nicolas; Rey, Patrice FPublished 2019-06-28The sedimentary architecture at continental margins reflects the interplay between the rate of change of accommodation creation (δA) and the rate of change of sediment supply (δS). Stratigraphic interpretation increasingly ...Open AccessArticle -
The role of deep Earth dynamics in driving the flooding and emergence of New Guinea since the Jurassic
Harrington, Lauren; Zahirovic, Sabin; Flament, Nicolas; Muller, R. DietmarPublished 2017-12-01The paleogeography of New Guinea indicates fluctuating periods of flooding and emergence since the Jurassic, which are inconsistent with estimates of global sea level change since the Eocene. The role of deep Earth dynamics ...Open AccessArticle -
Secular cooling of the solid Earth, emergence of the continents, and evolution of Earth's external envelopes
Flament, NicolasPublished 2010-07-27The secular cooling of the mantle and of the continental lithosphere trigger an increase in the area of emerged land. The corollary increase in weathering and erosion processes has major consequences for the evolution of ...Open AccessThesis -
Tectonic evolution and deep mantle structure of the eastern Tethys since the latest Jurassic
Zahirovic, Sabin; Matthews, Kara J; Flament, Nicolas; Muller, R. Dietmar; Hill, Kevin C; Seton, Maria; Gurnis, MichaellPublished 2016-11-01The breakup of Pangea in the Jurassic saw the opening of major ocean basins at the expense of older Tethyan and Pacific oceanic plates. Although the Tethyan seafloor spreading history has been lost to subduction, proxy ...Open AccessArticle
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