GPlates: Building a Virtual Earth Through Deep Time

Global tectonic reconstructions with continuously deforming and evolving rigid plates

(2018) Michael Gurnis et al.   COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES

Causes of rapid uplift and exceptional topography of Gongga Shan on the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

(2018) Kristen L. Cook et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Palaeolatitudinal distribution of lithologic indicators of climate in a palaeogeographic framework

(2018) WENCHAO CAO et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Dynamic topography of passive continental margins and their hinterlands since the Cretaceous

(2018) R.D. Müller et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Formation of mantle “lone plumes” in the global downwelling zone — A multiscale modelling of subduction-controlled plume generation beneath the South China Sea

(2018) Nan Zhang et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Oceanic crustal carbon cycle drives 26-million-year atmospheric carbon dioxide periodicities

(2018) R. Dietmar Müller et al.   Science Advances

Future intraplate stress and the longevity of carbon storage

(2017) Scott Dyksterhuis et al.   FUEL

Influence of mantle flow on the drainage of eastern Australia since the Jurassic Period

(2017) T. Salles et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Predicting Sediment Thickness on Vanished Ocean Crust Since 200 Ma

(2017) A. Dutkiewicz et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Potential links between continental rifting, CO2 degassing and climate change through time

(2017) Sascha Brune et al.   Nature Geoscience

Middle Miocene climate and vegetation models and their validation with proxy data

(2017) A.-J. Henrot et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Kinematic constraints on the Rodinia to Gondwana transition

(2017) Andrew S. Merdith et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Dynamic topography and eustasy controlled the paleogeographic evolution of northern Africa since the mid-Cretaceous

(2017) N. Barnett-Moore et al.   TECTONICS

Origin and evolution of the deep thermochemical structure beneath Eurasia

(2017) N. Flament et al.   Nature Communications

Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns

(2017) Samuli Lehtonen et al.   Scientific Reports

Ocean Basin Evolution and Global-Scale Plate Reorganization Events Since Pangea Breakup

(2016) R. Dietmar Müller et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Large fluctuations of shallow seas in low-lying Southeast Asia driven by mantle flow

(2016) Sabin Zahirovic et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Mantle-induced subsidence and compression in SE Asia since the early Miocene

(2016) Ting Yang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Global plate boundary evolution and kinematics since the late Paleozoic

(2016) Kara J. Matthews et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Subduction controls the distribution and fragmentation of Earth’s tectonic plates

(2016) Claire Mallard et al.   NATURE

Abrupt plate accelerations shape rifted continental margins

(2016) Sascha Brune et al.   NATURE

The GPlates Portal: Cloud-Based Interactive 3D Visualization of Global Geophysical and Geological Data in a Web Browser

(2016) R. Dietmar Müller et al.   PLoS One

Influence of subduction history on South American topography

(2015) Nicolas Flament et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Tectonic speed limits from plate kinematic reconstructions

(2015) Sabin Zahirovic et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Onset of Antarctic Circumpolar Current 30 million years ago as Tasmanian Gateway aligned with westerlies

(2015) Howie D. Scher et al.   NATURE

Long-term interaction between mid-ocean ridges and mantle plumes

(2015) J. M. Whittaker et al.   Nature Geoscience

The Paleobiology Database application programming interface

(2015) Shanan E. Peters et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Assimilating lithosphere and slab history in 4-D Earth models

(2015) Dan J. Bower et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

A geodetic plate motion and Global Strain Rate Model

(2014) Corné Kreemer et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

New global marine gravity model from CryoSat-2 and Jason-1 reveals buried tectonic structure

(2014) D. T. Sandwell et al.   SCIENCE

Plate tectonics in the late Paleozoic

(2014) Mathew Domeier et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Relationships between palaeogeography and opal occurrence in Australia: A data-mining approach

(2013) T.C.W. Landgrebe et al.   COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES

Convergence of tectonic reconstructions and mantle convection models for significant fluctuations in seafloor spreading

(2013) N. Coltice et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Organization of the tectonic plates in the last 200Myr

(2013) Gabriele Morra et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Sea level and vertical motion of continents from dynamic earth models since the Late Cretaceous

(2012) Sonja Spasojevic et al.   AAPG BULLETIN

Australian paleo-stress fields and tectonic reactivation over the past 100 Ma

(2012) R. D. Müller et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

4DPlates: On the fly visualization of multilayer geoscientific datasets in a plate tectonic environment

(2012) Stuart R. Clark et al.   COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES

Lower mantle structure from paleogeographically constrained dynamic Earth models

(2012) Dan J. Bower et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Convection of North Pacific deep water during the early Cenozoic

(2012) A. M. Hague et al.   GEOLOGY

Paleozoic crustal blocks of onshore and offshore central Argentina: New pieces of the southwestern Gondwana collage and their role in the accretion of Patagonia and the evolution of Mesozoic south Atlantic sedimentary basins

(2012) Francisco Pángaro et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Modeling the Miocene climatic optimum: Ocean circulation

(2012) N. Herold et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Plate tectonic reconstructions with continuously closing plates

(2011) Michael Gurnis et al.   COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES

Testing absolute plate reference frames and the implications for the generation of geodynamic mantle heterogeneity structure

(2011) G.E. Shephard et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Modeling the Miocene Climatic Optimum. Part I: Land and Atmosphere*

(2011) N. Herold et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Spherical harmonic modelling to ultra-high degree of Bouguer and isostatic anomalies

(2011) G. Balmino et al.   JOURNAL OF GEODESY

The tectonic fabric of the ocean basins

(2011) Kara J. Matthews et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

A Synthesis of the Long-Term Paleoclimatic Evolution of the Arctic

(2011) Matthew O'Regan et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

Full-fit, palinspastic reconstruction of the conjugate Australian-Antarctic margins

(2011) Simon E. Williams et al.   TECTONICS

A dynamic process for drowning carbonate reefs on the northeastern Australian margin

(2010) Lydia DiCaprio et al.   GEOLOGY

EMAG2: A 2-arc min resolution Earth Magnetic Anomaly Grid compiled from satellite, airborne, and marine magnetic measurements

(2009) S. Maus et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

A new scheme for the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean and the dissection of an Aptian salt basin

(2009) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Middle Miocene tectonic boundary conditions for use in climate models

(2008) N. Herold et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

A new global model forPwave speed variations in Earth's mantle

(2008) Chang Li et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Global plate motion frames: Toward a unified model

(2008) Trond H. Torsvik et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Long-Term Sea-Level Fluctuations Driven by Ocean Basin Dynamics

(2008) R. D. Muller et al.   SCIENCE