Christopher Scotese
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{{short description|American geologist and paleogeographer}}
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| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois
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| fields = Geology, paleogeography
| workplaces = Northwestern University, Evanston
| alma_mater = University of Chicago
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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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.scotese.com/ScoteseCV.htm |title=Curriculum Vitae: Christopher R. Scotese |publisher=Paleomap Project}} 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.{{cite news|url=http://www.science.org.au/nova/newscientist/104ns_011.htm |title=Pangaea, the comeback |publisher=New Scientist |first1=Caroline |last1=Williams |first2=Ted |last2=Nield |date=20 October 2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080413162401/http://www.science.org.au/nova/newscientist/104ns_011.htm |archivedate=13 April 2008 }}
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.{{Cite web|title=Christopher Scotese|url=https://www.earth.northwestern.edu/our-people/affiliated-faculty/scotese-christopher.html|url-status=live|access-date=19 July 2021|website=Northwestern University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114171140/http://www.earth.northwestern.edu:80/our-people/affiliated-faculty/scotese-christopher.html |archive-date=14 November 2017 }}
Selected publications
- {{cite journal | last1=Cao | first1=Wenchao | last2=Williams | first2=Simon | last3=Flament | first3=Nicolas | last4=Zahirovic | first4=Sabin | last5=Scotese | first5=Christopher | last6=Müller | first6=R. Dietmar | title=Palaeolatitudinal distribution of lithologic indicators of climate in a palaeogeographic framework | journal=Geological Magazine | publisher=Cambridge University Press (CUP) | volume=156 | issue=2 | date=12 March 2018 | issn=0016-7568 | doi=10.1017/s0016756818000110 | pages=331–354| s2cid=134349632 | url=https://ro.uow.edu.au/smhpapers1/200 }}
- 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.
- {{cite journal | last1=Lehtonen | first1=Samuli | last2=Silvestro | first2=Daniele | last3=Karger | first3=Dirk Nikolaus | last4=Scotese | first4=Christopher | last5=Tuomisto | first5=Hanna | last6=Kessler | first6=Michael | last7=Peña | first7=Carlos | last8=Wahlberg | first8=Niklas | last9=Antonelli | first9=Alexandre | title=Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns | journal=Scientific Reports | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=7 | issue=1 | date=6 July 2017 | page=4831 | issn=2045-2322 | doi=10.1038/s41598-017-05263-7| pmid=28684788 | pmc=5500532 | bibcode=2017NatSR...7.4831L }}
- {{cite journal | last1=Mills | first1=Benjamin J. W. | last2=Scotese | first2=Christopher R. | last3=Walding | first3=Nicholas G. | last4=Shields | first4=Graham A. | last5=Lenton | first5=Timothy M. | title=Elevated CO2 degassing rates prevented the return of Snowball Earth during the Phanerozoic | journal=Nature Communications | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=8 | issue=1 | date=24 October 2017 | page=1110 | issn=2041-1723 | doi=10.1038/s41467-017-01456-w| pmid=29062095 | pmc=5736558 | bibcode=2017NatCo...8.1110M }}
- 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, [https://dx.doi.org/10/1016/B978-0-12-809417-4.00004-5]
- {{cite journal | last1=Upchurch | first1=Garland R. | last2=Kiehl | first2=Jeffrey | last3=Shields | first3=Christine | last4=Scherer | first4=Jacquelyn | last5=Scotese | first5=Christopher | title=Latitudinal temperature gradients and high-latitude temperatures during the latest Cretaceous: Congruence of geologic data and climate models | journal=Geology | publisher=Geological Society of America | volume=43 | issue=8 | date=23 June 2015 | issn=0091-7613 | doi=10.1130/g36802.1 | pages=683–686| bibcode=2015Geo....43..683U }}
- {{cite journal | last1=Osen | first1=Angela K. | last2=Winguth | first2=Arne M.E. | last3=Winguth | first3=Cornelia | last4=Scotese | first4=Christopher R. | title=Sensitivity of Late Permian climate to bathymetric features and implications for the mass extinction | journal=Global and Planetary Change | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=105 | year=2013 | issn=0921-8181 | doi=10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.01.011 | pages=171–179| bibcode=2013GPC...105..171O }}
- {{cite journal | last1=Chatterjee | first1=Sankar | last2=Goswami | first2=Arghya | last3=Scotese | first3=Christopher R. | title=The longest voyage: Tectonic, magmatic, and paleoclimatic evolution of the Indian plate during its northward flight from Gondwana to Asia | journal=Gondwana Research | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=23 | issue=1 | year=2013 | issn=1342-937X | doi=10.1016/j.gr.2012.07.001 | pages=238–267| bibcode=2013GondR..23..238C }}
- {{cite book | last=Boucot | first=A. J. | title=Phanerozoic paleoclimate : an atlas of lithologic indicators of climate | publisher=Society for Sedimentary Geology | publication-place=Tulsa, Okla | year=2013 | isbn=978-1-56576-282-4 | oclc=876431965}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20001019071428/http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast06oct_1.htm Continents in Collision: Pangea Ultima]
- [http://www.scotese.com The Paleomap Project]
- [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher_Scotese3?ev=prf_highl CR Scotese profile in ResearchGate]
- [http://www.globalgeology.com Global Geology website]
- [https://www.youtube.com/@cscotese YouTube channel]
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Category:American paleogeographers
Category:People associated with the Field Museum of Natural History
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