Research

Professor Scotese retired from teaching at the University of Texas, Arlington, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences in 2013.  He is now a Research Associate at the Field Museum of Natural History and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern University.  He continues to collaborate with several research groups on topics concerning the history of the Earth System, but his main focus is a book entitled: “Earth History, the Evolution of the Earth System”. He is the coauthor of more than 100 scientific publications, and his maps and animations have been used in numerous geological textbooks, scientific research papers, and are on display in museums worldwide. Additional information can be found at the PALEOMAP website, the Global Geology website, Professor Scotese's YouTube channel, or his ResearchGate webpage.

Selected Publications

2024

Jacobs, L.L., Schroder, A., de Sousa, N., Dixon, R., Fiordalisi, E. Marechal. A., Mateus, O., Nsungani, P.C., Polcyn, M.J., Pereira, G.,m Rochelle-Bates, N., Schlup, A., Scotese, C.R., Sharp, I., Silvano. C.G., Swart, R., Vineyard, D., 2024. The Atlantic jigsaw puzzle and the geoheritage of Angola, in R.M. Clary, E.J. Pyle, and W.M. Andrews (editors), Geology’s Significant Sites and their Contributions to Geoheritage, Geological Society of London, Special Publications 543, doi:https://doi.org/10.1144/SP543-20220301 (112)

Scotese, C.R., 2024. Plate Tectonic Modelling: What’s Been Done , What We Need To Do, DDE Plate Model Intercomparison Task Group, First Workshop, April 11-13, European Geophysical Union, Vienna, (via Zoom; also posted on X, i.e., Twitter) (113).

Scotese, C.R., Vérard, C., Burgener, L., Elling, R.P., and Kocsis, A.T., 2024. The Cretaceous World: Plate Tectonics, Paleogeography, and Paleoclimate, Geological Society of London, Special Publications 544, doi.org/10.1144/SP544-2024-28 (86) 

2023 

Bao, X.J., Hu, Y.Y., Scotese, C.R., Li, X., Guo, J.Q., Lan,J.W.J, Lin, Q.F., Yuan, S., Wei, M.Y., Li, Z.B., Man, K., Yin, Z.H., Han, J., Zhang, Jian, Wei, Q.A., Liu, Y.G., Yang, J., and Nie, J., Quantifying climate conditions for teh formation of coals and evaporites, Nation Science Review, doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwad051, 8 pp. (75)

Buffan, L., Jones, L.A., Domeier, Scotese, C.R., Zahirovic, S., and Varela, S., 2023. Mind the Uncertainty: Global plate model choice impacts deep-time palaeobiological studies, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Wiley Online Library. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.14204 (73)

Burgener, L., Hyland, E., Reich, B.J., and Scotese, C.R., 2023. Cretaceous climates: Mapping paleo-Köppen climatic zones using a statistical analysis of lithologic, paleontologic, and geochemical proxies, Palaeogeography, Paleoclimatology, and Palaeoecology, 613, 111373, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111373 (26)

Delclòs, X., Peñalver, E., Barrón, E., Pérez-de la Fuente, R., Grimaldi, D., Holz, M., Labandeira, C., Scotese, C.R., Solórzano-Kraemer, M.M., Álvarez-Parra, S., Arillo, A., Azar, D., Cadena, E., Dal Corso, J., Gallardo, A., Goula, M., Jaramillo, C., Kania-Klosok, I., Kvaček, J., López del Valle, R., Lozano, R., Menor-Salván, C., Monleón, A., Nel, A., Peña-Kairath, C.a, Perrichot, V., Peyrot, D., Rodrigo, A., Sánchez-García, A., Sarto i Monteys, V., Saupe, E.., Uhl, D., Viejo, J.L., Peris, D., 2023. Amber And the Cretaceous Resinous Interval, Earth-Science Reviews, 243: 104486, 15 pp (114).

Du, W., Mishra, S., Ogg, J.G., Qian, Y.Z., Chang, S., Oberoi, K., Ault, A., Zahirovic, S., Hou, H.F., Raju, D.S.N., Mamallapalli, O., Ogg, G.M., Li, H.P., Scotese, C.R., and Dong, B., 2023, Online data service for geologic formations (Lexicons) of China, India, Vietnam and Thailand with one-click visualizations onto East Asia plate reconstructions, Geosciences Data Journal, doi:10.1002/gdj3.210., 14 pp. (91)

Farnsworth, Y.T.,Lo, E., Valdes,, P.J., Buzan, J.R., Mills, B., Merdith, A., Scotese, C.R., and Wakeford,, H., 2023. Climate extremes likely to drive land mammal extinction during next supercontinent assembly, Nature Geoscience, 16, 901-908, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01259-3 (42)
Green, M., Scotese, C.R., and Davies, H.S., 2023. Chapter 7, Proterozoic (2500 – 541 Ma), in A Journey Through Tides, M. Green and J.C. Duarte (editors), Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 143-153. (117a)

Green, M., Hadley-Pryce, D., and Scotese, C.R., 2023. Chapter 8, Phanerozoic (541 Ma – present day), in A Journey Through Tides, M. Green and J.C. Duarte (editors), Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 157-179. (117b)

He, Z.L., Zhongshi Zhang, Z.S., Guo, Z.T., Scotese, C.R., and Deng, C.L., 2023. An early Miocene (~20 MA) paleogeographic reconstruction for paleoclimate modelling, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology, 612 (111382), doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111382 (72)

Hönisch, B., Royer, D., Breecker, D.O., Polissar, P.J., Bowen, G., Henehan, M.J., Cui, Y., Steinthorsdottir, M. McElwain, J.C., Kohn, M.J., Pearson, A., Phelps, S.R., Uno, K.T., Ridgwell, A., Anagnostou, E., Austermann, J., Badger, M.P.S., Barclay, R.S., Bijl, P.K., Chalk, T,.B., Scotese, C.R., and ~70 others, 2023. Towards a Cenozoic History of Atmospheric CO2 , The Cenozoic CO2 Proxy Integration Project (Cen CO2 PIP) Consortium, Science, 382 (eadi5177), 1136, 10 pp., doi.org/10.112/science.adi5177(08)

Lunt , D.J., Valdes, P., and Scotese, C.R., 2023. Changes in climate sensitivity and polar amplification over the last 500 million years, (abstract), CL 1.1.4, Deep-time climate change: insights from models and proxies, European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly 2023, EGU23-9574, Vienna, Austria (84)

Scotese, C.R., 2023. Ordovician plate tectonic and paleogeographical maps, in D.A. T. Harper, B. Lefebvre, I.G. Percival, and T. Servais, T. (editors) A Global Synthesis of the Ordovician System: Part 1. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 532, p. 91-109. (51)

Scotese, C.R., 2023. The Earth System History Machine; A Dynamic Simulation of Plate Tectonics, Paleogeography, Paleoclimate, and Paleobiogeography, 4th International Congress on Stratigraphy, Strat 2023, 11-13, July, Lille, France, Book of Abstracts, p. 444. (111)

Servais , T , Harper , D , Kröger , B , Scotese , C.R. and Stigall , A L 2023 , Changing palaeobiogeography during the Ordovician Period ', in D.A. T. Harper, B. Lefebvre, I.G. Percival, and T. Servais, T. (editors) A Global Synthesis of the Ordovician System: Part 1. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 532 part 1, p. 111-136, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP532-2022-168 (81)

Song, H., and Scotese, C.R., 2023. The end-Paleozoic Great Warming, Science Bulletin, doi:/10.1016/j.scib.2023.09.009, 9 p. (92)

2022

Feldman, H.R., Blodgett, R.B., and Scotese, C.R., 2022. The brachiopod genus Leptaenella frederik and its role in the Oriskanian (late Pragian) faunal interval of southerastern Laurentia, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 90, 2 pp. (78)

Neubauer, T.A., Harzhauser, M., Hartman, J.H., Silvestro, D., Scotese, C.R., Czaja, A., Vermeij, G.J., and Wilke, T., 2022. Short-term paleogeographic reorganizations and climate events shaped diversification of North Americam freshwater gastropods over deep time, Nature, Scientific Reports, 19759, 12 pp., doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19759-4 (50)

Neubauer, T.A., Hauffe, T., Silvestro, D., Scotese, C.R., Stelbrink, B., Albrecht, C., Delicado, D., Harzhauser, M., and Wilke, T., 2022. Drivers of diversification in freshwater gastropods vary over deep time, Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 20212057, https://doi.org/10.1098/repb.2021.2057 (47)

Pohl, A., Hearing, T.W., Franc, A., Sepulchre, P., and Scotese, C.R., 2022. Dataset of Phanerozoic continental climate and Köppen-Geiger climate classes, Data in Brief (2022), https://dopi.org/10.1016/j.db2022.108424 (49)

Pohl, A., Ridgwell, A., Stockey, R.G., Thomazo, C., Keane, A., Vennin, E., and Scotese, C.R., 2022. Continental configuration controls ocean oxygenation during the Phanerozoic, Nature 608, 523-527, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05018-z (44)

Range, M.M., Arbic, B., Johnson, B.C., Moore, T.C., Adcroft, A.J., Ansong, J.K., Ritsema, J., and Scotese, C.R., 2022. The Chicxulub impact produced a powerful global tsunami, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Advances, 3, e2021AV000627, doi.org/10.1029/2021AV000627, 21 pp. (55)

Scotese, C.R., 2022. Global Mean Surface Temperatures for 100 Phanerozoic Time Intervals, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5718392 (148)

Scotese, C.R., 2022. Toekomstige opwarming van de aarde en een bijgewerkte CO2-curve voor de afgelopen 460 miljoen jaar, Geo juni 2022, nummer 2, p. 24-28. (66)

Scotese, C.R., Royer, D., Summerhayes, and C.P., Mills, B., 2022. Atmospheric CO2 during the last 540 million years, (abstract), American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting, PP12D-0657, Monday, December 12, 9:00 AM-12:30 PM, McCormick Place, Poster Hall A, Chicago, IL. (59)

Van der Meer, D.G., Scotese, C.R., Mills, B.J.W., Sluijs, A., van den Berg van Saparoea, and van de Weg, R.M.B., 2022. Long-term Phanerozoic global mean sea level: Insights from strontium isotope variations and estimates of continental glaciation, Gondwana Research, 11:103-121, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2022.07.014 (19)

2021

He, Z., Zhang, Z., Gou, Z., Scotese, C.R., and Deng., C., 2021. Middle Miocene (~14 Ma) and late Miocene (~6 Ma), paleogeographic boundary conditions, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36, e2021PA004298. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021PA004298 (18)

Hearing, T.W.W., Pohl, A., Williams, M., Donnadieu, Y., Harvey, T.H.P., Scotese, C.R., , Sepulchre, P., Franc, A., and Vandenbroucke, T.R.A., 2021, Quantitative comparison of geological data and model simulations constrains early Cambrian geography and climate, Nature Communications, (2021) 12:3868 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24141-5 (12)

Kocsis, A.T., Reddin, C.J., Scotese, C.R., Valdes, P.J., and Kiessling, W., 2021. Increase in marine provinciality over the last 250 million years governed more by climate change than plate tectonics, Proceedings of the Royal Society, B 288:202111342. https://doi.org/10/1098/rspb.2021.1342 (07)

Kocsis, A.T., and Scotese, C.R., 2021. Mapping paleocoastlines and continental flooding during the Phanerozoic, Earth-Science Reviews, 213, 103463. (10)

Martin, R., Jr., and Scotese, C.R., 2021. Pangaea Sister Sites: Jurassic Link to the Modern World, Tharsis Highlands Publishing, 332 pp.

Scotese, C.R., 2021. An Atlas of Phanerozoic Paleogeographic Maps: The Seas Come In and the SeasGo Out. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 49(1), 679-728. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-081320-064052 (09)

Scotese, C.R., 2021. Phanerozoic paleo-Köppen Zone Maps (0-540 Ma), .bmp & .csv format, PALEOMAP Project, Evanston, IL. (149)

Scotese, C.R., Song, H., Mills, B.J.W., and van der Meer, D., 2020. Phanerozoic Paleotemperatures: The Earth’s Changing Climate during the last 540 million years, Earth-Science Reviews, https:/doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103503.(00)

Valdes, P.J., Scotese, C.R., and Lunt, D.J., 2021. Deep Ocean Temperatures Through Time, Climate of the Past, v. 17, p. 1483-1506, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-1483-2021 (06)

2020

Green, M.J.A., Davies, H., Duarte, J.C., Creveling, J.R., and Scotese, C.R., 2020. Weak tides during Cryogenian glaciations, Nature Communications, (2020) 11:6227, doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20008-3 (01)

Pohl, A., Donnadieu, Y., Godderis, Y., Lanteaume, C., Hairabian, Frau, C., Michel, J., Lauhie, M., Reijmer, J.J.G., and Scotese, C.R., 2020. Carbonate platform production during the Cretaceous, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 132 (11-12): 2606-2610, 10.1130/B35680.1.1. (04)

Scotese, C.R., 2020. Global Warming during the next 300 years, A Global Warming Calculator (student exercise with Excel spreadsheet), PALEOMAP Project, Evanston, IL. 49 pp. (02)

Scotese, C.R., and van der Pluijm, 2020. Deconstructing Tectonics: Ten Animated Explorations, Earth and Space Science, 7, e2019EA00989, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EA000989 (03

2019

Cao, W., Williams, S., Flament, N., Zahirovic, S., Scotese, C.R., and Müller, R.D., 2019. Paleolatitudinal distribution of lithologic indicators of climate in a paleogeographic framework, Geological Magazine, v. 156, no. 2, p. 331-354.

de Lurdes Fonseca, M., Scotese, C.R., and Cachao, M., 2019. Late Cretaceous paleobiogeography of Braarudosphaera bigelowi, Marine Micropaleontology, 152: XX-XX, doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2019.03.010

Hagen, O., Vaterlaus, L., Albouy, C., Brown, A.,  Leugger, F., Onstein, R.E., Novaes de Santana, C., Scotese, C., and Pellissier, L., 2019. Mountain building, climate cooling and the richness of cold‐adapted plants in the Northern Hemisphere, Journal of Biogeography, 00:1–16, doi: 10.1111/jbi.13653

Mills, B.J.W., Krause, A.J., Scotese, C.R., Hill, D.J., Shields, G.A., and Lenton, T.M., 2019. Modelling the long-term carbon cycle, atmospheric CO2, and Earth surface temperature from late Neoproterozoic to present-day, Gondwana Research, v. 67, p. 172-186, doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2018.12.001 1342-937.

Ogg, J.G., Scotese, C.R., Hou, M., Chen, A., Ogg, G.M., and Zhong, Hanting, 2019. Global Paleogeography through the Proterozoic and Phanerozoic: Goals and Challenges, Acta Geologica Sinica, 93 (supp.1): 59-60.

Pohl, A., Laugié, M., Borgomano, J.,  Michel, J., Lanteaume, C., Scotese, C., Frau, C., Poli, E., Donnadieu, Y., 2019. Quantifying the paleogeographic driver of Cretaceous carbonate platform development using paleoecological niche modeling, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 514:222-232,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.10.017