Christopher R. Scotese (born 4 May 1953) 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.[1] 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.[2]
On 22 December 2010, he created a YouTube channel when he was making history of earth in the future or past, geography and history.
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.[3]
Chatterjee, S., Scotese, C.R., Bajpai, S., 2017. The Restless Indian Plate and Its Epic Voyage from Gondwana to Asia: Its Tectonic, Paleoclimate, and Paleobiogeographic Evolution, Geological Society of America, Special Paper 529, 147 pp.
Scotese, C.R., and Schettino, A., 2017.
Late Permian – Early Jurassic Paleogeography of Western Tethys and the World, Chapter 3, in Permo-Triassic Salt Provinces of Europe, North Africa and the Atlantic Margins, Elsevier, p. 57 – 95,
[1]
Upchurch, Garland R.; Kiehl, Jeffrey; Shields, Christine; Scherer, Jacquelyn; Scotese, Christopher (23 June 2015). "Latitudinal temperature gradients and high-latitude temperatures during the latest Cretaceous: Congruence of geologic data and climate models". Geology. 43 (8). Geological Society of America: 683–686.
Bibcode:
2015Geo....43..683U.
doi:
10.1130/g36802.1.
ISSN0091-7613.
Osen, Angela K.; Winguth, Arne M.E.; Winguth, Cornelia; Scotese, Christopher R. (2013). "Sensitivity of Late Permian climate to bathymetric features and implications for the mass extinction". Global and Planetary Change. 105. Elsevier BV: 171–179.
Bibcode:
2013GPC...105..171O.
doi:
10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.01.011.
ISSN0921-8181.
Chatterjee, Sankar; Goswami, Arghya; Scotese, Christopher R. (2013). "The longest voyage: Tectonic, magmatic, and paleoclimatic evolution of the Indian plate during its northward flight from Gondwana to Asia". Gondwana Research. 23 (1). Elsevier BV: 238–267.
Bibcode:
2013GondR..23..238C.
doi:
10.1016/j.gr.2012.07.001.
ISSN1342-937X.
Boucot, A. J. (2013). Phanerozoic paleoclimate : an atlas of lithologic indicators of climate. Tulsa, Okla: Society for Sedimentary Geology.
ISBN978-1-56576-282-4.
OCLC876431965.[3]
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