Dr. Maria Seton (nee Sdrolias), PhD

APD Fellow/Lecturer

Madsen Building (F09), Rm 400
Phone: +61 2 9351 4255
Fax: +61 2 9351 2442
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Maria is a Australian Postdoctoral Fellow in the EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences. Her currently funded research aims to develop a "Subduction Reference Framework" in order to better constrain the position and motion of tectonic plates from the Mesozoic to the present day. Maria's research interests are in the field of marine geophysics and geodynamics, in particular examining the links between plate tectonic and mantle processes. She is also interested in the kinematic controls on subduction and back-arc basin formation and the relationship between tectonics and palaeo-climate and tectonics and ore-deposit formation. Maria completed her PhD at the University of Sydney in 2005 on the mechanisms behind back-arc basin formation.

• Seton, M., Gaina, C., Müller, R.D. and Heine, C., 2009, Mid-Cretaceous seafloor spreading pulse: Fact or fiction?, Geology, 37, 687-690
• Tong, J.A., You, Y., Müller, R.D., and Seton, M. 2009, Climate Model Sensitivity to Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations for the Middle Miocene, Global and Planetary Change, 67, 129-140
• Herold, N., Seton, M., Müller, R.D., You, Y. and Huber, M., 2008, Middle Miocene tectonic boundary conditions for use in climate models, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol 9, 10, Q10009, doi:10.1029/2008GC002046.
• Müller, R.D., Sdrolias, M., Gaina, C. and Roest, W., 2008, Age, spreading rates and spreading asymmetry of the world's ocean crust, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9, Q04006, doi:10.1029/2007GC001743.
• 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, 1357-1362, DOI: 10.1126/science.115154.
• Seton, M. and Müller, R.D., 2008, Reconstructing the junction between Panthalassa and Tethys since the Early Cretaceous, Eastern Australasian Basins III, Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Special Publ., 263-266.
• Whittaker, J., Müller, R.D., Leitchenkov, G., Stagg, H., Sdrolias, M., Gaina, C. and Goncharov, A., 2008, Response to Comment on: Major Australian-Antarctica Plate Reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor Bend Time, Science, 321, DOI: 10.1126/science.1157501
• Whittaker, J., Müller, R.D., Leitchenkov, G., Stagg, H., Sdrolias, M., Gaina, C. and Goncharov, A., 2007, Major Australian-Antarctica Plate Reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor Bend Time, Science, 318, 83-86, doi:10.1126/science.1143769.
• Whittaker, J.M., Müller, R.D., Sdrolias, M. and Heine, C. 2007, Java-Sunda Trench Kinematics, Slab Window Formation and Overriding Plate Deformation Since the Cretaceous, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 255, 445-457, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.12.031.
• Sdrolias, M. and Müller, R.D., 2006, Controls on Back-arc Basin Formation, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. Vol. 7, Q04016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2005GC001090
• Sdrolias, M., Roest, W.R. and Müller, R.D., 2004, An Expression of Philippine Sea Plate Rotation: the Parece Vela and Shikoku Basins, Tectonophysics, 394, 69-86
• Sdrolias, M., Müller, R.D., Mauffret, A. and Bernardel G. 2004, The Enigmatic Formation of the Norfolk Basin, SW Pacific: A Plume Influence on Back-arc Extension, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 5, No. 6, 28pp
• Sdrolias, M., Müller R.D. and Gaina, C., 2003, Tectonic Evolution of the Southwest Pacific Using Constraints from Back-arc Basins, In: Hillis R.R. & Müller R.D. eds. Evolution and Dynamics of the Australian Plate. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 22 and Geological Society of America Special Paper 372, 343-359.
• Hall, C.E., Gurnis, M., Sdrolias, M., Lavier, L.L. and Müller, R.D., 2003, Catastrophic initiation of subduction following forced convergence at transform boundaries, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 212, 15-30.
• Sdrolias, M., Müller, R. D. and Gaina, C., 2001, Tectonic Evolution of Eastern Australian Marginal Basins, Eastern Australasian Basins, ed. by K. Hill and T. Bernecker, Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Special Publ., The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Carlton, VIC, 227-238.

• GEOS 2111/2911 - Natural Hazards: a GIS Approach
  SUCOGG Honours Course - Data Processing & Plotting using the Generic Mapping Tools (GMT)
  SUCOGG Honours Course - Advanced GMT Methods