Dietmar Müller Publications

Selected Publications

1. Books - Edited
   
   Hillis, R. and Müller, R.D., 2003, The Evolution and Dynamics of the Australian Plate, Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 22 and Geological Society of America Special Paper 372, 432 pp.

1. Chapters in Books (Refereed)
   
   Dyksterhuis, S., Müller, R.D., Unternehr, P., in review, Predicting basin inversion and reactivation on the Northwest Australian Shelf with modelled stress regimes, in: Geological Society of London Special Publication on emerging plays in Australasia ed. by Cloke, I Geological Society of London
   
   Müller, R.D. and Dyksterhuis, S., in review, Cretaceous-Tertiary plate tectonic evolution of Australasia and the palaeo-stress field evolution of Australia, in: Geological Society of London Special Publication on emerging plays in Australasia ed. by Cloke, I Geological Society of London
   
   Müller, R.D. and Dyksterhuis, S., 2007, Current and palaeo-stress models for central Australian Basins, In: Proceedings of the Central Australian Basins Symposium, Alice Springs, August, 2005 eds: Munson TJ and Ambrose GJ, Northern Territory Geological Survey Special Publication 2, 1-9.
   
   Dyksterhuis, S., Rey, P., Müller, R.D., & Moresi, L. 2007, Effects of Initial Weakness on Rift Architecture, In: Imaging, Mapping and Modelling Continental Lithosphere Extension and Breakup, eds: Karner, G., Manatschal, G. and Pinheiro, L., Geological Society of London Special Publication, 282, 443-455, DOI: 10.1144/SP282.18
   
   Müller, R.D., Eagles, S., Hogarth, P., Hughes, M. 2007, Automated Textural Image Analysis of Seabed Backscatter Mosaics: A Comparison of Four Methodologies, In: G. Greene & Todd, B. Marine Benthic Habitat Mapping. Mapping the Seafloor for Habitat Characterization Geological Society of Canada, Special Paper 47. p.43-62
   
   Wessel, P., & Müller, R.D. 2007, Plate Tectonics, In: Treatise on Geophysics Elsevier Vol 6. 49-98
   
   Heine, Ch., Müller, R.D., Gaina, C., 2004, Reconstructing the Lost Eastern Tethys Ocean Basin: Convergence history of the SE Asian margin and marine gateways, In: P. Clift et al. (eds.), Continent-Ocean Interactions in Southeast Asia, AGU Monograph. 149, 37-54.
   
   Müller, R.D., 2003, Marine geo-informatics, In: From Zero to Infinity, eds: J.A. Nicholls and B.A. Pailthorpe, The Science Foundation for Physics, 107-120.
   
   Müller, R.D., 2003, Understanding how the Earth works: A geodynamic revolution based on Linux computing, In: From Zero to Infinity, eds: J.A. Nicholls and B.A. Pailthorpe, The Science Foundation for Physics, 99-106.
   
   Baldwin, S., White, N. and Müller, R.D., 2003, Resolving multiple rift phases using strain rate inversion in the Bonaparte Basin and the North West Shelf of Australia, 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, 245-263.
   
   Brown, B., Müller, R.D., Struckmeyer, H.I.M., Gaina, C., Stagg, H. and Symonds, P., 2003, Formation and evolution of Australian passive margins: Implications for locating the boundary between continental and oceanic crust, 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, 223-243.
   
   Gaina, C., Müller, R.D. Brown, B. and Ishihara, T., 2003, Microcontinent formation around Australia, 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, 405-416.
   
   Gurnis, M. and Müller, R.D., 2003, Origin of the Australian Antarctic Discordance from an ancient slab and mantle wedge, 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, 417-429.
   
   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.
   
   Zhao, S. and Müller, R. D., 2003, Three-dimensional finite element modelling of the tectonic stress field in continental Australia, 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, 71-89.
   
   Müller, R. D., Mihut, D., Heine, C., O'Neill, C. and Russell, I., 2002, Tectonic and volcanic history of the Carnarvon Terrace: Constraints from seismic interpretation and geodynamic modelling, In: The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia 3, ed: Gorter, J., Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Perth, 719-740.
   
   Brown, B., Müller, R.D. and Struckmeyer, H.I.M., 2001, Anomalous tectonic subsidence of the southern Australian passive margin: response to Cretaceous dynamic topography or differential lithospheric stretching? (622.5Kb), 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, 563-569.
   
   Zhao, S. and Müller, R. D., 2001, The tectonic stress field in eastern Australia, 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, 61-70.
   
   Sdrolias, M., Müller, R. D. and Gaina, C., 2001, Tectonic Evolution of Eastern Australian Marginal Basins (1.5Mb), 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.
   
   Gurnis, M., Moresi, L. and Müller, R.D, 2000, Models of mantle convection incorporating plate tectonics: The Australian Region since the Cretaceous, American Geophysical Union Monograph 121, The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, 211-238.
   
   Müller, R.D., Gaina, C., Tikku, A., Mihut, D., Cande, S.C. and Stock, J.M., 2000, Mesozoic/Cenozoic tectonic events around Australia, American Geophysical Union Monograph 121, The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, 161-188.
   
   Gaina, C., Müller, R.D. and Cande, S.C., 2000, Absolute plate motion, mantle flow and volcanism at the boundary between the Pacific and Indian Ocean mantle domains since 90 Ma, American Geophysical Union Monograph 121, The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, 189-210.
   
   Müller, R.D., Gaina, C. and Clarke, S., Seafloor spreading around Australia, 2000, In: Billion-year earth history of Australia and neighbours in Gondwanaland, ed. J. Veevers, Gemoc Press. Sydney, 18-28.
   
   Müller, R.D., Cande, S.C., Royer, J.-Y., Roest, W.R. and Maschenkov, S., 1999, New constraints on the Late Cretaceous/Tertiary plate tectonic evolution of the Caribbean, in: Caribbean Basins. Sedimentary basins of the world, 4, Ed. P. Mann, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, p. 39-55.
   
   Mihut, D. and Müller, R.D, 1998, Revised seafloor spreading history of the Argo Abyssal Plain, In: The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia 2, ed: Purcell P.G. and R.R., Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Perth, 73-80.
   
   Müller, R.D., Mihut, D. and Baldwin, S., 1998, A new kinematic model for the formation and evolution of the Northwest and West Australian margin, In: The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia 2, ed: Purcell P.G. and R.R., Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Perth, 55-72.
   
   Lawver, L.A, Müller, R.D., Roest, W. R. and Srivastava, S. P., 1990, The Opening of the Arctic Ocean, in: U. Bleil and J. Thiede, eds., Geological History of the Polar Oceans: Arctic Versus Antarctic, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 29-62.
   
   Royer, J.-Y., Sclater, J.G., Sandwell, D.T., Cande, S.C., Schlich, R., Munschy, M., Dyment, J., Fisher, R.L., Müller, R.D., Coffin, M.F., Patriat, P. and Bergh, H.W., 1992, Indian Ocean Plate Reconstructions Since the Late Jurassic, in Duncan, R.A. et al., The Indian Ocean: A Synthethis of Results from the Ocean Drilling Program, Geophysical Monograph 70, American Gephysical Union (Washington, D.C.), 471-475.
   
   

1. Articles in Refereed Journals
   
   Clark, S.R., and Müller, R.D., In Press,, Convection models with imposed plate motion and thermal histories, Journal of Geodynamics.
   
   Clark, S.R., Stegman, D. and Müller, R.D., In Press, Episodicity in back-arc tectonic regimes, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Special Volume on Computational Geology and Geodynamics, Kaus, B., Gerya, T eds.
   
   Heine, C., Müller, R.D., Steinberger, B. and Di Caprio, L., In Review, Integrating deep Earth dynamics in paleogeographic reconstructions of Australia, Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology
   
   Heine, C., Müller, R.D., Steinberger, B. and Torsvik, T., In Press, Anomalous subsidence in intracontinental basins, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Special Volume on Computational Geology and Geodynamics, Kaus, B., Gerya, T eds.
   
   Herold, N., You, Y., Müller, R.D., and Sdrolias, M., In Review, Middle Miocene monsoon climate in Australia, Geology
   
   Xie X., Tao, C., Müller, R.D., Xiurong, G., Xiaofeng, L. and Cheng, Z., In Review, Subsidence history and forming mechanism of anomalous tectonic subsidence in the Bozhong depression, Bohaiwan basin, Science in China
   
   Dyksterhuis, S., Müller, R.D., 2008, Cause and evolution of intraplate orogeny in Australia, Geology
   
   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.
   
   Müller, R.D., Sdrolias, M., Gaina, C. and Roest, W.R., 2008, Age, spreading rates and spreading asymmetry of the world's ocean crust, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 9, Q04006, doi:10.1029/2007GC001743.
   
   Spasojevic. S., Liu, L., Gurnis, M., and Müller, R.D. 2008, The case for dynamic subsidence of the U.S. east coast since the Eocene, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L08305, doi:10.1029/2008GL033511.
   
   Xie, X., Müller, R.D., Ren, J., Jiang, T., and Zhang, C., 2008, Stratigraphic architecture and evolution of the continental slope system in offshore Hainan, northern South China Sea, Marine Geology, 247, 129-144
   
   Dyksterhuis, S., Müller, R.D., Rey, P. and Moresi, L., 2007, A Graphical User Interface for Particle-in-Cell Finite Element Analysis of lithospheric deformation and mantle convection in two dimensions, Computers and Geosciences, 33, 1088-1093.
   
   Gaina, C, Müller, R.D., Brown, B., Ishihara, T. and Ivanov, S., 2007, Breakup and early seafloor spreading between India and Antarctica, Antarctica, Geophysical Journal International, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03450.x, 1-19.
   
   Gaina, C. and Müller, R.D., 2007, Cenozoic tectonic and depth/age evolution of the Indonesian gateway and associated back-arc basins, Earth Science Reviews, 83, 177-203.
   
   Goyette, S., Takatsuka, M., Clark, S., Müller, R.D., Rey, P., and Stegman, D., 2007, Increasing the Usability and Accessibility of Geodynamic Modelling Tools to the Geoscience Community: UnderworldGUI, Visual Geosciences, DOI 10.1007/s10069-007-0006-3.
   
   Müller, R.D., 2007, An Indian Cheetah, Nature 449, 795-797.
   
   Müller, R.D. and Eagles, S., 2007, Mapping seabed geology by textural image/neural network classification of acoustic backscatter mosaics, Mathematical Geology 39, (6).
   
   Müller, R.D., Gohl, K., Cande, S.C., Goncharov, A. and Golynsky, A., 2007, Eocene to Miocene geometry of the West Antarctic Rift System, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 54, 1033-1045
   
   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., Müller, R.D., Sdrolias, M. and Heine, C., 2007, Sunda-Java 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
   
   Brown, B., Gaina, C. and Müller, R.D., 2006, Circum-Antarctic palaeobathymetry: illustrated examples from Cenozoic to Recent times, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology, 231, 158-168.
   
   O'Neill, C., Moresi, L., Müller, R.D., Albert, R. and Dufour, F., 2006, Ellipsis 3D: a particle-in-cell finite element hybrid code for modelling mantle convection and lithospheric deformation, Computers and Geosciences, 32, 1769-1799.
   
   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.
   
   Whittaker, J. and Müller, R.D., 2006, Seismic Stratigraphy of the Adare Trough Area, Antarctica, Marine Geology, 230, 179-197
   
   Xie, X., Müller, R.D., Li, S., Gong, Z., and Steinberger, B., 2006, Origin of anomalous subsidence along the northern South China Sea Margin and its relationship to dynamic topography, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 23, 745-765.
   
   Müller, R.D., Cande, S.C., Stock, J.M., and Keller, W.R., 2005, Crustal Structure and Rift Flank Uplift of the Adare Trough, Antarctica, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 6, Q11010, doi:10.1029/2005GC00102
   
   Müller, R.D., Goncharov, A., and Kritski, A., 2005, Geophysical Evaluation of the Enigmatic Bedout Basement High, Offshore Northwestern Australia, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 237, 264-284
   
   Heine, C., and Müller, R.D., 2005, Late Jurassic Rifting Along the Australian Northwest Shelf: Margin Geometery and Spreading Ridge Configuration, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 52, 27-39
   
   Dyksterhuis, S., Müller, R.D. and Albert, R., 2005, Palaeo-stress field evolution of the Australian continent since the Eocene, Journal of Geophysical Research. 110, B05102 doi:10.1029/2003JB002728, 13pp
   
   O'Neill, C., Müller, R.D., and Steinberger, B., 2005, On the uncertainties in hotspot reconstructions, and the significance of moving hotspot reference frames, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 6, No 4, doi:10.1029/2004GC000784, 35pp.
   
   Finn, C.A., Müller, R.D., and Panter, K. S., 2005, A Cenozoic alkaline magmatic province in the SW Pacific without rift or plume origin, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Vol. 6, No 1, doi:10.1029/2004GC000723, 26pp.
   
   Dyksterhuis, S., Albert, R. and Müller, R.D., 2005, Finite element modelling of intraplate stress using ABAQUS, Computers and Geosciences 31, 297-307.
   
   Dyksterhuis, S., and Müller, R.D., 2004, Modelling the contemporaneous and palaeo stress field of Australia using finite element modelling with automatic optimisation, Exploration Geophysics 35 (4) 236-241.
   
   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.
   
   Zhao, S., Müller, R.D., Takahashi, Y., and Kaneda, Y. 2004, 3D finite element modelling of deformation and stress associated with faulting: Effect of inhomogeneous crustal structures, Geophysical Journal International 157, 629-644.
   
   O'Neill, C., Müller, R.D. and Steinberger, B., 2003, Revised Indian Plate Rotations Based On The Motion Of Indian Ocean Hotspots. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 215, 151-168.
   
   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.
   
   Kent, R.W., Pringle, M.S., Müller, R.D., Saunders, A.D. and Ghose, N.C., 2002, ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology of the Rajmahal basalts, India, and their relationship to the Kerguelen Plateau, Journal of Petrology, 43, 1141-1153.
   
   Coffin, M.F., Pringle, M.S., Duncan, R.A., Gladczenko, T.P., Storey, M., Müller, R.D. and Gahagan, L.M., 2002, Kerguelen Hotspot Magma Output Since 130 Ma, Journal of Petrology, 43, 1121-1139.
   
   Gaina, C., Roest, W.R. and Müller, R.D., 2002, Late Cretaceous - Cenozoic deformation of northeast Asia (2.7Mb), Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 197, 273-286.
   
   Müller, R.D., Gaina, C, Roest, W.R. and Lundbek Hansen, D., 2001, A recipe for microcontinent formation, Geology, 29, 203-206.
   
   Cande, S.C., Stock, J.M., Müller, R.D. and Ishihara, T., 2000, Cenozoic motion between East and West Antarctica, Nature, 404, 145-150.
   
   Frey, F.A., Coggin, M.F., Wallace, P.J., Weis, D., Zhao, X., Wise, S.W., Waehnert, V., Teagle, D.A.H., Sacocia, P.J., Reusch, D.N., Pringle, M.S., Nicolaysen, K.E., Neal, C.R., Müller, R.D, Moore, C.L., Mahoney, J.J., Keszthelyi, L., Inokuchi, H., Duncan, R.A., Delius, H., Damuth, J.E., Damasceno, D., Coxall, H.K., Borre, M.K., Boehm, F., Barling, J., Arndt, N.T. and Antretter, M., 2000, Origin and evolution of a submarine large igneous province: the Kerguelen Plateau and Broken Ridge, southern Indian Ocean, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 176, 73-89.
   
   Müller, R.D., Lim, V. and Isern, A., 2000, Late Tertiary tectonic subsidence of the Queensland Plateau: response to dynamic topography? (2.6Mb) Marine Geology, 337-352.
   
   Gaina, C., Müller, R.D., Royer, J.-Y. and Symonds, P., 1999, The evolution of the Louisiade Triple Junction, Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, 12927-12939.
   
   Müller, R.D., Roest, W.R. and Royer, J.-Y., 1998, Asymmetric seafloor spreading expresses ridge-plume interactions, Nature, 396, 455-459.
   
   Gurnis, M., Müller, R.D. and Moresi, L., 1998, Dynamics of Cretaceous to the Present Vertical Motion of Australia and the Origin of the Australian-Antarctic Discordance, Science, 279, 1499-1504.
   
   Gaina, C., Roest, W., Müller, R.D. and Symonds, P.A., 1998, The opening of the Tasman Sea: A gravity anomaly grid animation, Earth Interactions, 2-004, 1-23.
   
   Mihut, D. and Müller, R.D., 1998, Volcanic margin formation and Mesozoic rift propagators in the Cuvier abyssal plain off Western Australia. Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 27135-27150.
   
   Gaina, C., Müller, R.D., Royer, J.-Y., Stock, J., Hardebeck, and J. Symonds, P.A., 1998, The tectonic history of the Tasman Sea: a puzzle with 13 pieces, Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 12413-12433.
   
   Cande, S., Stock, J., Raymond, C. and Müller, R.D., 1998, New constraints on an old plate tectonic puzzle of the Southwest Pacific, EOS, 79, 81-82.
   
   Müller, R.D., Overkov, N., Royer, J.-Y., Dutkiewicz, A. and Keene, J., 1997, Seabed classification of the South Tasman Rise from SIMRAD EM12 backscatter data using artificial neural networks, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 44, 689-700.
   
   Müller, R.D., Roest, W.R., Royer, J.-Y., Gahagan, L.M. and Sclater, J.G., 1997, Digital isochrons of the world's ocean floor, Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 3211-3214.
   
   Lawver, L.A. and Müller, R.D., 1994, The Iceland hotspot track, Geology, 22, 311-314.
   
   Müller, R.D., Royer, J.-Y. and Lawver, L.A., 1994, Revised Plate Motions Relative to the Hotspots from Combined Atlantic and Indian Ocean Hotspot Tracks, Comment and Reply, Geology, 22, 276-278.
   
   Müller, R.D. and Smith, W.H.F., 1993, Deformation of the oceanic crust between the North American and South American plates, Journal of Geophysical Research, 93, 8275-8292.
   
   Müller, R.D., Royer, J.-Y. and Lawver, L.A., 1993, Revised Plate Motions Relative to the Hotspots from Combined Atlantic and Indian Ocean Hotspot Tracks, Geology, 21, 275-278
   
   Roest, W.R., Müller, R.D. and Verhoef, J., 1992, Age of the ocean floor: A digital data set for the Labrador Sea and Western North Atlantic, Geoscience Canada, 19, 27-32.
   
   Nürnberg, D. and Müller, R.D., 1991, The Tectonic Evolution of the South Atlantic.from Late Jurassic to Present, Tectonophysics, 191, 27-53.
   
   Müller, R.D., Sandwell, D.T., Tucholke, B.E., Sclater, J.G. and Shaw, P.R., 1991, Depth to Basement and Geoid Expression of the Kane Fracture Zone: A Comparison. Marine Geophysical Researches, 13, 105-129
   
   Müller, R.D. and Roest, W.R , 1992, Fracture Zones in the North Atlantic from combined Geosat and Seasat data, Journal of Geophysical Research, 97, 3337-3350.
   
   Müller, R.D. and Spielhagen, R.F., 1990, Evolution of the Central Tertiary Basin of Spitsbergen: Towards a Synthesis of Sediment and Plate Tectonic History. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, 80, 153-172.
   
   Gahagan, L.M., Scotese, C.R., Royer, J.-Y., Sandwell, D.T., Winn, J.K., Tomlins, R.L., Ross, M.I., Newman, J.S., Müller, R.D., Mayes, C.L., Lawver, L.A. and Heubeck, C.E., 1988, Tectonic Fabric Map of the Ocean Basins From Satellite Altimetry Data. Tectonophysics 155, 1-26.
   
   
2. Conference Publications - Edited Volume of Conference Proceedings
   
   Moresi, L., Müller, R.D. and Hobbs, B., 2001, Exploration Geodynamics Chapman Conference, Dunsborough, WA, Australia, 19-24 August, 2001, published by the American Geophysical Union.