Dynamic Topography


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Seton, M., Flament, N., Whittaker, J., Müller, R. D., Gurnis, M., & Bower, D. J. (2015). Ridge subduction sparked reorganization of the Pacific plate-mantle system 60.50 million years ago. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(6), 1732-1740.
Flament, N., Williams, S., Müller, R. D., Gurnis, M., & Bower, D. J. (2017). Origin and evolution of the deep thermochemical structure beneath Eurasia. Nature Communications 7, 14164 doi: 10.1038/ncomms14164.
R.D. Müller, R. Hassan, M. Gurnis, N. Flament, S.E. Williams, Dynamic topography of passive continental margins and their hinterlands since the Cretaceous, Gondwana Research, Volume 53, 2018, Pages 225-251, ISSN 1342-937X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2017.04.028.
Müller, R.D., Sdrolias, M., Gaina, C., Steinberger, B. and Heine, C., 2008. Long-term sea-level fluctuations driven by ocean basin dynamics. science, 319(5868), pp.1357-1362.
Barnett-Moore, N., R. Hassan, R. D. Müller, S. E. Williams, and N. Flament (2017), Dynamic topography and eustasy controlled the paleogeographic evolution of northern Africa since the mid-Cretaceous , Tectonics, 36, 929–944, doi:10.1002/2016TC004280.
Flament, N., Gurnis, M., Williams, S., Seton, M., Skogseid, J., Heine, C., and Dietmar Müller R. (2014). Topographic asymmetry of the South Atlantic from global models of mantle flow and lithospheric stretching. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 387, 107-119.
Shephard, G. E., Flament, N., Williams, S., Seton, M., Gurnis, M., and Müller R. D. (2014). Circum-Arctic mantle structure and long-wavelength topography since the Jurassic. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. DOI: 10.1002/2014JB011078
Bower, D. J., Gurnis, M., & Flament, N. (2015). Assimilating lithosphere and slab history in 4-D Earth models. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 238, 8-22.
Rubey, M., Brune, S., Heine, C., Davies, D. R., Williams, S. E., and Müller, R. D.: Global patterns in Earth's dynamic topography since the Jurassic: the role of subducted slabs, Solid Earth, 8, 899-919, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-899-2017, 2017.
Flament, N., Gurnis, M., Müller R. D., Bower, D. J., & Husson, L. (2015). Influence of subduction history on South American topography. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 430, 9-18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.08.006.
Müller, R. D., Flament, N., Matthews, K. J., Williams, S. E., & Gurnis, M. (2016). Formation of Australian continental margin highlands driven by plate-mantle interaction.. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 441, 60-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.02.025
Cao, W., Flament, N., Zahirovic, S., Williams, S. and Müller, R.D. 2019. The interplay of dynamic topography and eustasy on continental flooding in the late Paleozoic. Tectonophysics. 761. 10.1016/j.tecto.2019.04.018.
Braz, C., Zahirovic, S., Salles, T., Flament, N., Harrington, L., & Müller, R. D. (2021). Modelling the role of dynamic topography and eustasy in the evolution of the Great Artesian Basin. Basin Research. doi:10.1111/bre.12606
Alexander Young, Nicolas Flament, Simon E. Williams, Andrew Merdith, Xianzhi Cao, R. Dietmar Müller (2022). Long-term Phanerozoic sea level change from solid Earth processes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 584, ISSN 0012-821X,

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