Christopher Scotese

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Christopher Scotese

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#681

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#154

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Physical Geography

#93

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#107

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#19

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Christopher Scotese's Degrees

PhD Geology University of Chicago
Masters Geology University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Christopher R. Scotese is an American geologist and paleogeographer. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1985. He is the creator of the Paleomap Project, which aims to map Earth over the last billion years, and is credited with predicting Pangaea Ultima, a possible future supercontinent configuration. Later Scotese changed Pangaea Ultima to Pangaea Proxima to alleviate confusion about the name Pangaea Ultima, which would imply that it would be the last supercontinent.

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Revised World maps and introduction (1990) (1120)
Plate tectonic reconstructions of the Cretaceous and Cenozoic ocean basins (1988) (577)
Paleozoic Base Maps (1979) (556)
Palaeozoic palaeogeography and biogeography (1990) (523)
Late Cretaceous to Miocene sea‐level estimates from the New Jersey and Delaware coastal plain coreholes: an error analysis (2008) (479)
Rainfall patterns and the distribution of coals and evaporites in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic (1982) (430)
The longest voyage: Tectonic, magmatic, and paleoclimatic evolution of the Indian plate during its northward flight from Gondwana to Asia (2013) (363)
A Continental Drift Flipbook (2004) (357)
Gondwanan palaeogeography and pal˦oclimatology (1999) (342)
A hierarchical tectonic model of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean region (1988) (339)
Early Cambrian continental reconstructions (1992) (280)
Phanerozoic Paleogeographic and Paleoclimatic Modeling Maps (1994) (277)
Phanerozoic tectonic evolution of the Circum-North Pacific (1998) (260)
Phanerozoic Paleoclimate: An Atlas of Lithologic Indicators of Climate (2013) (255)
Apparent polar wander paths for the major continents (200 Ma to the present day): a palaeomagnetic reference frame for global plate tectonic reconstructions (2005) (218)
Pangea and the Paleogeography of the Permian (1995) (202)
Diagenetic magnetite carries ancient yet secondary remanence in some Paleozoic sedimentary carbonates (1983) (196)
Mesozoic and Cenozoic Paleogeographic Maps (1982) (182)
Jurassic and cretaceous plate tectonic reconstructions (1991) (170)
Carboniferous paleogeographic, phytogeographic, and paleoclimatic reconstructions (1985) (154)
Ordovician Plate Tectonic Reconstructions (1991) (154)
Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth’s changing climate during the last 540 million years (2021) (151)
Paleomagnetic evidence for a large (∼2,000 km) sinistral offset along the Great Glen fault during Carboniferous time (1981) (135)
A review of tectonic models for the evolution of the Canada Basin (1990) (132)
PALEOMAP PALEOATLAS FOR GPLATES AND THE PALEODATAPLOTTER PROGRAM (2016) (112)
Quantifying the role of geographic change in Cenozoic ocean heat transport using uncoupled atmosphere and ocean models (2000) (108)
Climate model boundary conditions for four Cretaceous time slices (2007) (105)
Circum-Arctic petroleum systems identified using decision-tree chemometrics (2007) (105)
Late Proterozoic plate tectonics and palaeogeography: a tale of two supercontinents, Rodinia and Pannotia (2009) (104)
Evolution of the Southwest Indian Ridge from the Late Cretaceous (anomaly 34) to the Middle Eocene (anomaly 20) (1988) (94)
Silurian continental distributions, paleogeography, climatology, and biogeography (1977) (93)
An Atlas of Phanerozoic Paleogeographic Maps: The Seas Come In and the Seas Go Out (2021) (93)
Paleosol archives of environmental and climatic history in paleotropical western Pangea during the latest Pennsylvanian through Early Permian (2008) (88)
A Review of the Cenozoic Vegetation History of Africa (2010) (87)
Modelling the long-term carbon cycle, atmospheric CO2, and Earth surface temperature from late Neoproterozoic to present day (2019) (84)
Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns (2017) (77)
The Wandering Indian Plate and Its Changing Biogeography During the Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary Period (2010) (72)
Global kinematic constraints to the tectonic history of the Mediterranean region and surrounding areas during the Jurassic and Cretaceous (2002) (72)
Latitudinal temperature gradients and high-latitude temperatures during the latest Cretaceous: Congruence of geologic data and climate models (2015) (70)
Elevated CO2 degassing rates prevented the return of Snowball Earth during the Phanerozoic (2017) (68)
Paleomagnetism of the Upper Silurian and Lower Devonian carbonates of New York State: evidence for secondary magnetizations residing in magnetite (1982) (66)
Silurian and Devonian base maps (1985) (65)
Metallogenesis and tectonics of the Russian Far East, Alaska, and the Canadian Cordillera (2003) (63)
Tectonic fabric map of the ocean basins from satellite altimetry data (1988) (63)
Vegetation–atmosphere interactions and their role in global warming during the latest Cretaceous (1998) (63)
A Revised Reconstruction of Gondwanaland (2013) (56)
Megareefs in Middle Devonian supergreenhouse climates (2003) (51)
Palaeoclimate, sedimentation and continental accretion (1981) (50)
Terrestrial vegetation and its effects on climate during the latest Cretaceous (1999) (48)
Phanerozoic CO2 levels and global temperatures inferred from changing paleogeography (1994) (47)
Plate tectonic reconstructions of the Juan Fernandez microplate: Transformation from internal shear to rigid rotation (1998) (46)
Late Permian-Early Jurassic Paleogeography of Western Tethys and the World (2017) (45)
Evolution of the Antarctic Continental Margins (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Progress Report No. 31-1287) (1987) (43)
Plate Reconstruction From Paleozoic Paleomagnetism (1984) (39)
Mesozoic and Cenozoic plate reconstructions (1989) (39)
Mapping paleocoastlines and continental flooding during the Phanerozoic (2020) (35)
Paleozoic plate dynamics (1995) (33)
Paleozoic stromatactis and zebra carbonate mud-mounds: Global abundance and paleogeographic distribution (2004) (32)
Deep Ocean Temperatures through Time (2020) (31)
New Internet software aids paleomagnetic analysis and plate tectonic reconstructions (2001) (30)
Cretaceous paleogeography, paleoclimatology, and amniote biogeography of the low and mid-latitude South Atlantic Ocean (2009) (27)
Palaeolatitudinal distribution of lithologic indicators of climate in a palaeogeographic framework (2018) (27)
North America; Plate-tectonic setting and tectonic elements (1989) (26)
Siberian glaciation as a constraint on Permian–Carboniferous CO2 levels (2006) (23)
A continental drift ‘flip book’ (1976) (22)
A NEW GLOBAL TEMPERATURE CURVE FOR THE PHANEROZOIC (2016) (20)
Tectonic and metallogenic model for northeast Asia (2010) (20)
Plate motions, Gondwana dinosaurs, Noah's arks, beached Viking funeral ships, ghost ships, and landspans. (2011) (20)
Dynamic computer model for the metallogenesis and tectonics of the Circum-North Pacific (2001) (19)
The PALEOMAP Project: paleogeographic atlas and plate tectonic software (1998) (18)
Mountain building, climate cooling and the richness of cold‐adapted plants in the Northern Hemisphere (2019) (17)
Quantifying the paleogeographic driver of Cretaceous carbonate platform development using paleoecological niche modeling (2019) (17)
Continental Drift Reconstructions and Animation (1975) (14)
Sensitivity of Late Permian climate to bathymetric features and implications for the mass extinction (2013) (14)
Evolution of the Antarctic Continental Margins (13)
Phanerozoic climatic zones and paleogeography with a consideration of atmospheric CO2 levels (2004) (13)
Pangaean aggregation and disaggregation with evidence from global climate belts (2012) (12)
Introduction: Project Pangea and workshop recommendations (1994) (11)
Scotese, C.R., 2013. Map Folio 44, Late Triassic (210 Ma, Norian), PALEOMAP PaleoAtlas for ArcGIS, volume 3, Jurassic & Triassic, PALEOMAP Project, Evanston, IL. (2013) (11)
A Paleomagnetic Reevaluation of Pangea Reconstructions (2013) (10)
Quantifying the role of geographic change in Cenozoic ocean heat transport using uncoupled atmosphere and ocean models [Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 161 (2000) 295–310] (2001) (10)
Late Cretaceous toMiocenesea-level estimates from theNewJerseyandDelawarecoastalplain coreholes : an erroranalysis (2008) (9)
A Tectonic Chart for the Southern Ocean Derived from Geosat Altimetry Data: Chapter 7 (1990) (9)
Quantitative comparison of geological data and model simulations constrains early Cambrian geography and climate (2021) (9)
THE ORTHOGONALITY OF SUBDUCTION: AN EMPIRICAL RULE? (1985) (9)
A Computer Animation of Continental Drift (1980) (8)
Depicting Biostratigraphical Data from Palynodata: Experiments and Questions in Data Presentation and Manipulation (2009) (8)
Increase in marine provinciality over the last 250 million years governed more by climate change than plate tectonics (2021) (8)
Phanerozic Reconstructions: A New Look at the Assembly of Asia (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Progress Report No. 19-1286) (1986) (7)
Tectonic and metallogenic model for northeast Asia, Chapter 9 in Metallogenesis and tectonics of northeast Asia (2010) (7)
An Introduction to this Volume: Paleozoic Paleomagnetism and the Assembly of Pangea (2013) (7)
Middle Miocene (∼14 Ma) and Late Miocene (∼6 Ma) Paleogeographic Boundary Conditions (2021) (6)
Carbonate platform production during the Cretaceous (2020) (6)
PLATE TECTONIC EVOLUTION DURING THE LAST 1.5 BILLION YEARS: THE MOVIE (2018) (6)
Long-Term Phanerozoic Global Mean Sea Level: Insights from Strontium Isotope Variations and Estimates of Continental Glaciation (2022) (5)
Continental configuration controls ocean oxygenation during the Phanerozoic (2022) (5)
Abstract: Phanerozoic Plate Tectonic Reconstructions: Insights into the Driving Mechanism of Plate Tectonics (1990) (5)
Drivers of diversification in freshwater gastropods vary over deep time (2022) (5)
An Early Snowball Earth? (1998) (5)
Weak tides during Cryogenian glaciations (2020) (3)
Devonian Climatic Summary (2013) (3)
An early Miocene (∼20 Ma) paleogeographic reconstruction for paleoclimate modelling (2023) (3)
Atlas of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Plate Tectonic Reconstructions 1987 (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project) (1987) (3)
Global Paleogeography through the Proterozoic and Phanerozoic: Goals and Challenges (2019) (3)
The Chicxulub Impact Produced a Powerful Global Tsunami (2018) (3)
Thermal Cooling of Ocean Lithosphere - New Data - New Insights (2005) (3)
Paleomagnetic Results from the Carboniferous of Nova Scotia (2013) (3)
Corelation between geologicallymarked climatic changes and extinctions (1997) (3)
Ibexian and Post-Ibexian Paleogeography Based on Climatically Sensitive Sediments and Biogeographic Data (1995) (3)
Mesozoic and Cenozoic Base Maps: ABSTRACT (1981) (3)
Was Laurentia Part of an Eocambrian Supercontinent (2013) (2)
Carboniferous paleogeographic and paleoclimatic reconstructions (1992) (2)
Development of the Circum‐Pacific Panthallassic Ocean During the Early Paleozoic (2013) (2)
Cambrian Climatic Summary (2013) (2)
GEN3SIS: An engine for simulating eco-evolutionary processes in the context of plate tectonics and deep-time climate variations (2020) (2)
Ordovician to Devonian Development of the Iapetus Ocean (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Report No. 08-0185) (1985) (2)
Late Cretaceous paleobiogeography of Braarudosphaera bigelowii (2019) (2)
Restoration of Circum-Arctic Upper Jurassic source rock paleolatitude based on crude oil geochemistry (2008) (2)
Modelling the Climate History of the Phanerozoic (2018) (2)
Abstract: 3D Paleogeographic and Plate Tectonic Reconstructions: the PALEOMAP Project is Back in Town (2002) (2)
Phanerozoic paleogeographic, plate tectonic and paleoclimatic reconstructions (1992) (2)
Cretaceous climates: Mapping paleo-Köppen climatic zones using a Bayesian statistical analysis of lithologic, paleontologic, and geochemical proxies (2023) (2)
Dataset of Phanerozoic continental climate and Köppen–Geiger climate classes (2022) (1)
Computer animation of Phanerozoic plate motions (1992) (1)
Sensitivity of Late Permian climate to topographic changes and implications for mass extinctions (2010) (1)
Untangling the relationship between climate and biodiversity in Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrates (2010) (1)
Plate Tectonic Reconstructions of the Larson et al. (1985) Map of the Age of the World Oceans (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Report No. 05-0985) (1985) (1)
Opening of the Central North Atlantic: Revised Seafloor Spreading Isochrons and Tectonic Map from Geosat Data (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Progress Report No. 39-0888) (1988) (1)
The fit of the continents around the South Atlantic Paleoceanographic Mapping Project (1)
Tectonic Development of the North Atlantic: Revised Seafloor Spreading Isochrons and Tectonic Fabric Map from SEASAT Altimetry (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project, Progress Report No. 26-1287) (1987) (1)
Plate motion drives variability in ocean oxygenation through the Phanerozoic (2021) (1)
PaleoMAP PaleoCoastlines data (2020) (1)
Short-term paleogeographic reorganizations and climate events shaped diversification of North American freshwater gastropods over deep time (2022) (1)
THE PERMIAN WORLD: PLATE TECTONICS, PALEOGEOGRAPHY, PALEOCLIMATE, & PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY (2020) (1)
Tectonic Evolution of the South Atlantic from Late Jurassic to Present (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Progress Report No. 27-1287) (1987) (1)
The PALEOMAP paleoatlas ArcGIS (2010) (1)
Toward a Phanerozoic History of Earth's Surface Temperature: The Oxygen Isotope Record of the Paleozoic to Early Cretaceous Time Slice (PalECTS) (2018) (1)
Comment and Reply on ‘Paleomagnetic evidence for a large (∼2,000 km) sinistral offset along the Great Glen fault during Carboniferous time’REPLY (1982) (1)
AN ESTIMATE OF THE VOLUME OF PHANEROZOIC ICE (2019) (1)
Plate Tectonics, Geographical Information System, paleogeography (2002) (0)
Volume Information (1979) (0)
Monsoons across Epochs: Diagnosing Monsoonal Circulations across Warm, Greenhouse Climates as Simulated by the Community Climate System Model (CCSM3) (2009) (0)
QUANTITATIVELY ASSESSING THE EXTENT OF EPEIRIC SEAS THROUGH THE PHANEROZOIC (2020) (0)
Paleoclimatic Expert System that Predicts Coastal Upwelling: ABSTRACT (1987) (0)
Development of the Circum-Pacific Panthallassic Ocean during the Early Paleozoic (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Report No. 10-0386} (1986) (0)
Plate reconstruction from Paleozoic paleomagnetism : interim report of Working Group 2 on Phanerozoic Plate Motions and Orogenesis (1984) (0)
Review of Tectonic Models for the Evolution of the Canada Basin (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Progress Report No. 14-1086) (1986) (0)
Correlation Between Geologically Marked Climate Changes and Extinction (1997) (0)
Tides on a Snowball (2021) (0)
Plate tectonic evolution of circum-Antarctic passive margins (1987) (0)
Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns (2017) (0)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Spatial Data Compilation of Geodynamic, Tectonic, Metallogenic, Mineral Deposit, and Geophysical Maps and Associated Descriptive Data for Northeast Asia: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1150 (2006) (0)
Paleomap PC: Plate tectonic reconstructions on IBM compatible computers (1993) (0)
Paleoceanographic Mapping Project (POMP): Research Goals, Methods, and Future Plans (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Report No. 02-1184) (1984) (0)
Major products of the international collaborative project on mineral resources, metallogenesis, and tectonics of northeast Asia (2005) (0)
Deep Ocean Temperatures through Time 1 (2020) (0)
Opening of the Central Atlantic: Seafloor spreading isochrons and tectonic fabric from SEASAT Altimetry (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Progress Report No. 21-0687) (1987) (0)
THE TRIASSIC WORLD: PLATE TECTONICS, PALEOGEOGRAPHY, PALEOCLIMATE & PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY (2018) (0)
Elevated CO2 degassing rates prevented the return of Snowball Earth during the Phanerozoic (2017) (0)
Paleozoic Basemaps (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Report No. 03-0984) (1984) (0)
PALEOLAKES: WHERE THEY WERE AND WHERE THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN (2016) (0)
Tectonic Fabric of the Ocean Basins Derived from Satellite Altimetry (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Progress Report No. 18-1286) (1986) (0)
Changes of the Late Permian Ocean Circulation and Deep-Sea Anoxia in Response to Tectonic Changes - A Model Study with CCSM3* (2010) (0)
Paleogeographic Reconstructions Using Interactive Three-Dimensional Computer Graphics: ABSTRACT (1989) (0)
ONE IF BY LAND, TWO IF BY SEA: PERMIAN OF THE U.S. SOUTH-CENTRAL REGION (2020) (0)
Carbon Sources and Sinks Over the Last 750 Million Years and Relationships to Greenhouse and Icehouse Climates (2016) (0)
AN ASSEMBLY OF PRESCRIBED BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FOR THE CLIMATE-MODEL SIMULATIONS ACROSS THE PERMO-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY(PTB) (2020) (0)
Ordovician Climatic Summary (2013) (0)
Phanerozoic paleogeography, CO[sub 2], and global climate (1992) (0)
Paleomagnetic Constraints on the Fit of the Continents Around the Gulf of Mexico (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Report No. 07-1285) (1985) (0)
RECOMPILATION OF CLIMATE-SENSITIVE SEDIMENTS ACROSS THE PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY (2020) (0)
Ordovician Plate Tectonic and Paleogeographic Maps (2023) (0)
Opening of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden: Implications for the Evolution of East Africa (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Progress Report No. 12-0586) (1986) (0)
Tectonic database and plate tectonic model of the former USSR territory (1993) (0)
Tectonic and metallogenic evolution of northeast Asia: Key to regional understanding (2005) (0)
Rotation Manager Pro Version 1.0b1 (2002) (0)
THE BALLET OF INDIAN PLATE DURING THE ASSEMBLY AND BREAKUP OF THE PROTEROZOIC SUPERCONTINENTS (2017) (0)
Appendix: Alternate Maps (2013) (0)
Tectonic Drift, Climate, and Paleoenvironment of Angola Since the Cretaceous (2010) (0)
Mantle structure and geotectonics. Abstracts of the symposium helt at the annual meeting of the Swiss academy of sciences 1989 in Fribourg (1990) (0)
Preliminary plate tectonic reconstruction of the Indian Ocean at Anomaly M10, 34, 28, 13, and 5 times, Part I. (2018) (0)
Preliminary Tectonic Reconstructions of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern Caribbean Region (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Report No. 11-0586) (1986) (0)
The tectonic development of south-central Asia and the paleogeographic setting of its hydrocarbon resources (1990) (0)
Dynamic computer model for the tectonics of Northeast Asia (2007) (0)
Pennsylvanian Climatic Summary (2013) (0)
THE DANCE OF INDIA IN THE SUPERCONTINENT CYCLES: ACCRETION, ASSEMBLY, DISPERSAL, AND REASSEMBLY OF PENINSULAR INDIA DURING THE PRECAMBRIAN, AND THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE (2018) (0)
Reconstructions of the Central and North Atlantic Using New Information from Satellite Altimetry (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Progress Report No. 16-1186) (1986) (0)
Deconstructing Tectonics: Ten Animated Explorations (2020) (0)
Global Coverage, Global Price@@@Mesozoic and Cenozoic Plate Reconstructions. (1990) (0)
An Ice--Free Siberia: A Clue to Carboniferous CO2 Levels (2003) (0)
What Controls the Evolution of Earth’s Surface O 2 and CO 2 Levels? (2019) (0)
DEEP-TIME DIGITAL EARTH (DDE) PALEOGEOGRAPHY DATABASES AND VISUALIZATION WITH AN INITIAL APPLICATION TO THE EAST ASIA (2021) (0)
Phanerozoic Paleogeography Map (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Progress Report No. 33-1287) (1987) (0)
Tides on a snowball: an Earth Science whodunit? (2019) (0)
Simulating the Warm Arctic Environment for the Latest Cretaceous Using the Community Climate System Model (CCSM3) (Invited) (2010) (0)
Global apparent polar wander paths in a hot spot reference frame (1992) (0)
Revised Reconstruction of Gondwana (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Report No. 04-0885) (1985) (0)
Fit of the continents around the South Atlantic (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Progress Report No. 22-0787) (1987) (0)
Changing palaeobiogeography during the Ordovician Period (2022) (0)
DECONSTRUCTING TECTONICS (2020) (0)

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