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GPlates 1.3 Released. A major release with new functionality including volume visualisation of 3D scalar fields, data-mining functionality, surface relief lighting and many other enhancements. Download latest version of GPlates
Morra, G., Seton, M., Quevedo, L., & Müller, R. D. (2013). Organization of the tectonic plates in the last 200 Myr. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 373, 93-101. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.04.020. Organization of the tectonic plates in the last 200 Myr
Whittaker, J. M., Goncharov, A., Williams, S. E., Müller, R. D., & Leitchenkov, G. (2013). Global sediment thickness data set updated for the Australian‐Antarctic Southern Ocean. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14(8), 3297-3305. doi:10.1002/ggge.20181. Global sediment thickness data set updated for the Australian‐Antarctic Southern Ocean
Seton, M., Williams, S., Zahirovic, S., & Micklethwaite, S. (2013). Obituary: Sandy Island (1876–2012). Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 94(15), 141-142. DOI: 10.1002/2013EO150001. Obituary: Sandy Island (1876–2012)
Merdith, A. S., Landgrebe, T. C., Dutkiewicz, A., & Müller, R. D. (2013). Towards a predictive model for opal exploration using a spatio-temporal data mining approach. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 60(2), 217-229. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08120099.2012.754793. Towards a predictive model for opal exploration using a spatio-temporal data mining approach Supplementary data
Congratulations to Simon Williams and co-PIs, awarded 5-weeks of ship time on Australia’s new Marine National Facility the vessel RV Investigator in Oct-Nov, 2014. This expedition will return to the western edge of the survey the Gulden Draak Knoll, a micro-continent at the western edge of the Perth Abyssal Plain. The aim is to collect … Read more…
Ex-EarthByter Dr Joanne Whittaker awarded the 2012 Edgeworth David Medal by the Royal Society of NSW. Congratulations Jo!
Wright, N., Zahirovic, S., Müller, R. D., & Seton, M. (2013). Towards community-driven paleogeographic reconstructions: integrating open-access paleogeographic and paleobiology data with plate tectonics. Biogeosciences, 10(3), 1529-1541. doi:10.5194/bg-10-1529-2013. Towards community-driven paleogeographic reconstructions: integrating open-access paleogeographic and paleobiology data with plate tectonics
Whittaker, J. M., Williams, S. E., & Müller, R. D. (2013). Revised tectonic evolution of the Eastern Indian Ocean. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14(6), 1891-1909. doi:10.1002/ggge.20120. Revised tectonic evolution of the Eastern Indian Ocean
EarthByte welcomes new PhD student Gemma Roberts who will be working with Patrice Rey.
EarthByte welcomes new PhD student Rakib Hassan. Rakib’s PhD title is ‘Palaeo-topography: effects of mantle convection and lithospheric deformation’ and his supervisors are Dietmar Müller and Nicolas Flament.
A GPlates short course was held at the National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, India, from 19-20 February 2013.
Flament, N., Gurnis, M., & Müller, R. D. (2013). A review of observations and models of dynamic topography. Lithosphere, 5(2), 189-210. doi:10.1130/L245.1. Download the paper – pdf
Bower, D. J., Gurnis, M., & Seton, M. (2013). Lower mantle structure from paleogeographically constrained dynamic Earth models. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14(1), 44-63. doi:10.1029/2012GC004267. Download the paper – pdf
Gibbons, A. D., Whittaker, J. M., & Müller, R. D. (2013). The breakup of East Gondwana: Assimilating constraints from Cretaceous ocean basins around India into a best‐fit tectonic model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 118(3), 808-822. doi:10.1002/jgrb.50079. Download the paper – pdf Access supplementary materials here
Landgrebe, T. C. W., Merdith, A., Dutkiewicz, A., & Müller, R. D. (2013). Relationships between palaeogeography and opal occurrence in Australia: A data-mining approach. Computers & Geosciences, 56, 76-82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2013.02.002. Download the paper – pdf
Landgrebe, T. C. W., Merdith, A., Dutkiewicz, A., & Müller, R. D. (2013). Relationships between palaeogeography and opal occurrence in Australia: A data-mining approach. Computers & Geosciences, 56, 76-82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2013.02.002. Download the paper – pdf
Masterton, S. M., Gubbins, D., Müller, R. D., & Singh, K. H. (2013). Forward modelling of oceanic lithospheric magnetization. Geophysical Journal International, 192(3), 951-962. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggs063. Download the paper – pdf
Matthews, K. J., Seton, M., & Müller, R. D. (2012). A global-scale plate reorganization event at 105− 100Ma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 355, 283-298. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.08.023. Download the paper – pdf
Jo Whittaker explains the Indo-Australian plate breakup to The Age.
Maria Seton and her team are back from the Southern Surveyor cruise in the Coral Sea, which was investigating the tectonic framework for the easternmost Coral Sea and northern extent of the Lord Howe hotspot for 25 days. The cruise has been featured on Radio Australia, which was then picked up by ABC News, Sydney … Read more…
Congratulations to Michael Chin from the Earthbyte group on winning this year’s NeCTAR/ANDS #nadojo competition. Michael demonstrated a new web-enabled GPlates prototype on the NECTAR/ANDS eResearch computing infrastructure, porting some of the powerful plate reconstruction capabilities to the web. The new GPlates competed with several other candidates from universities and research institutes in Australia, and … Read more…
Qin, X., Müller, R. D., Cannon, J., Landgrebe, T. C. W., Heine, C., Watson, R. J., & Turner, M. (2012). The GPlates geological information model and markup language. Geosci. Instrum. Methods Data Syst. Discuss, 2, 365-428. doi:10.5194/gi-1-111-2012. Download the paper – pdf
Matthews, K. J., Seton, M., Flament, N., & Müller, R. D. (2012). Late Cretaceous to present-day opening of the southwest Pacific constrained by numerical models and seismic tomography. In Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium EABS IV: Exploration—Driving Future Energy Solutions, Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (pp. 105-119). Download the paper – pdf
Congratulations to Luke Mondy who won the L. A. Richardson Memorial Prize.
Lane, H., Müller, R. D., Totterdell, J. M., & Whittaker, J. (2012). Developing a consistent sequence stratigraphy for the Wilkes Land and Great Australian Bight margins. In Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium IV: Brisbane, Queensland. Download the paper – pdf
Whittaker, J. M., Goncharov, A., Williams, S. E., & Müller, R. D. (2012). Crustal velocity and sediment thickness asymmetries along and between the conjugate Australian-Antarctic margins. Mares, T.(Ed). Download the paper – pdf
Williams, S. E., Whittaker, J. M., & Müller, R. D. (2012). Full-fit reconstructions of the southern Australian margin and Antarctica–implications for correlating geology between Australia and Antarctica. In Proceedings of the Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium IV, Brisbane Qld (unpubl.). Download the paper – pdf
Heine, C., Quevedo, L., McKay, H., & Müller, R. D. (2012). Plate Tectonic Consequences of competing models for the origin and history of the Banda Sea subducted oceanic lithosphere. arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.4958. Download the paper – pdf
Seton, M., Flament, N., & Müller, R. D. (2012). Subduction history in the Melanesian Borderlands region, SW Pacific. In: Mares, T. (Ed), 2012. Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium IV. Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Special Publication, 1-12. Download the paper – pdf