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Maria Seton is an Associate Professor in the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, and a former ARC Future Fellow and Australian Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research focusses on using the marine record to understand global to regional plate motions, how the deep Earth and surface communicate and the role of tectonics in modulating Earth's long-term climate. While much of her research is global in scale and scope, she has a particular interest in the tectonic and geodynamic evolution of the SW Pacific and Zealandia. Her research is primarily funded through the Australian Research Council and industry, and supported by AuScope NCRIS infrastructure development.

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University of Sydney: NSW, NSW, AU

2022 to present | Associate Professor (School of Geosciences)
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University of Sydney: NSW, NSW, AU

2020 to 2021 | Senior Lecturer (School of Geosciences)
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The University of Sydney: Sydney, NSW, AU

2014 to 2020 | Future Fellow (School of Geosciences)
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University of Sydney: Sydney, NSW, AU

2009 to 2013 | Australian Postdoctoral Fellow (School of Geosciences)
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University of Sydney: Sydney, NSW, AU

2005 to 2008 | Research Associate (School of Geosciences)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Sydney: Sydney, NSW, AU

2001 to 2005 | PhD (School of Geosciences)
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University of Sydney: Sydney, NSW, AU

1997 to 2000 | BSc (Hons) (School of Geosciences)
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Machine Learning‐Based Spatio‐Temporal Prospectivity Modeling of Porphyry Systems in the New Guinea and Solomon Islands Region

Tectonics
2025-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Ehsan Farahbakhsh; Sabin Zahirovic; Brent McInnes; Sara Polanco; Fabian Kohlmann; Maria Seton; R. Dietmar Müller
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Machine learning and tectonic reconstructions: Unlocking porphyry copper exploration in the western Tethyan region

2025-03-18 | Preprint
Contributors: Ehsan Farahbakhsh; Elnaz Heidari; Sabin Zahirovic; Brent I. A. McInnes; Fabian Kohlmann; Maria Seton; R. Dietmar Müller
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Plate-plume interaction driving microcontinent formation in the South Atlantic: The Rio Grande and Valdivia microcontinents 

2025-03-18 | Preprint
Contributors: Caesar Rigoti; Sabin Zahirovic; Maria Seton; Nolan Dehler
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Reconstructing the Topographic Evolution of Active Margins Since the Devonian Using Artificial Intelligence

2025-03-18 | Preprint
Contributors: Satyam Pratap Singh; Maria Seton; Sabin Zahirovic; Nicky M. Wright
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Subducting seafloor anomalies promote porphyry copper emplacement

2025-01-20 | Preprint
Contributors: Ben Mather; Dietmar Müller; Christopher Alfonso; Nicky Wright; Maria Seton
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The tectonic evolution of the western North American margin since the Devonian

2025-01-20 | Preprint
Contributors: Andres Felipe Rodriguez Corcho; Sabin Zahirovic; Michele Anthony; Dene Tarkyth; Christopher Alfonso; Maria Seton; Dietmar Muller; Bruce Eglington; Basil Tikoff
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Unveiling the temporal dynamics: A spatiotemporal prospectivity model for porphyry systems in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands

2025-01-20 | Preprint
Contributors: Ehsan Farahbakhsh; Sabin Zahirovic; Brent I. A. McInnes; Sara Polanco; Fabian Kohlmann; Maria Seton; R. Dietmar Muller
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Spreading ridge migration enabled by plume-ridge de-anchoring

Nature Communications
2024-10-16 | Journal article
Contributors: Ben Mather; Maria Seton; Simon Williams; Joanne Whittaker; Rebecca Carey; Maëlis Arnould; Nicolas Coltice; Robert Duncan
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Reconstructing the Mesozoic evolution of the Gulf of Mexico Basin: A new model incorporating optimised and focused lithospheric deformation

2023-11-30 | Preprint
Contributors: Satyam Pratap Singh; Sabin Zahirovic; Maria Seton; Nicky M Wright; Nicholas Atwood; Catherine Belgarde; Claire Mallard
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Reconnaissance Basement Geology and Tectonics of North Zealandia

Tectonics
2023-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Nick Mortimer; Simon Williams; Maria Seton; Andy Calvert; Tod Waight; Rose Turnbull; Demian Nelson; Mike Palin; Jahandar Ramezani; Matthew W. Sagar et al.
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Kimberlite eruptions driven by slab flux and subduction angle

Scientific Reports
2023-06-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Ben R. Mather; R. Dietmar Müller; Christopher P. Alfonso; Maria Seton; Nicky M. Wright
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Paleobathymetry reconstructions during the Mesozoic and uncertainties in oceanic gateway evolution

2023-05-15 | Preprint
Contributors: Nicky Wright; Maria Seton; Aleece Nanfito; Nick Atwood; Dietmar Müller
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Reconstructing slab dip through deep time to explain pulses in kimberlite eruptions

2023-05-15 | Preprint
Contributors: Ben Mather; Dietmar Müller; Christopher Alfonso; Maria Seton; Nicky Wright
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The role of plume-ridge decoupling on rapid plate motion and intraplate volcanism

2023-05-15 | Preprint
Contributors: Ben Mather; Maria Seton; Simon Williams; Joanne Whittaker; Rebecca Carey; Maëlis Arnould; Nicolas Coltice; Bob Duncan
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Deconstructing plate tectonic reconstructions

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2023-02-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Maria Seton; Simon E. Williams; Mathew Domeier; Alan S. Collins; Karin Sigloch
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The Louisiade ophiolite: A missing link in the western Pacific

Terra Nova
2022-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0954-4879
Part of ISSN: 1365-3121
Contributors: Anders McCarthy; Luca Magri; Isabel Sauermilch; Jodi Fox; Maria Seton; Geoffroy Mohn; Julie Tugend; Sandrin Feig; Trevor Falloon; Joanne M. Whittaker
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Parallel volcanic chains generated by plume-slab interaction

2022-03-27 | Preprint
Contributors: Ben Mather; Maria Seton; Simon Williams; Joanne Whittaker; Rebecca Carey; Maëlis Arnould; Nicolas Coltice; Angus Rogers; Saskia Ruttor; Oliver Nebel
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Kinematic and geodynamic evolution of the Isthmus of Panama region: Implications for Central American Seaway closure

Geological Society of America Bulletin
2021 | Journal article
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Kinematics and extent of the Piemont–Liguria Basin – implications for subduction processes in the Alps

Solid Earth
2021-04-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Eline Le Breton; Sascha Brune; Kamil Ustaszewski; Sabin Zahirovic; Maria Seton; R. Dietmar Müller
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Reflections on solid Earth research

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2021-01-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Shuichi Kodaira; Maria Seton; Laura J. Sonter; Christy B. Till; Helen M. Williams
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Sea-level fluctuations driven by changes in global ocean basin volume following supercontinent break-up

Earth-Science Reviews
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85088791668

Part of ISSN: 00128252
Contributors: Wright, N.M.; Seton, M.; Williams, S.E.; Whittaker, J.M.; Müller, R.D.
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Intraplate volcanism triggered by bursts in slab flux

Science Advances
2020-12-18 | Journal article
Contributors: Ben R. Mather; R. Dietmar Müller; Maria Seton; Saskia Ruttor; Oliver Nebel; Nick Mortimer
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A Global Data Set of Present‐Day Oceanic Crustal Age and Seafloor Spreading Parameters

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2020-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Maria Seton; R. Dietmar Müller; Sabin Zahirovic; Simon Williams; Nicky M. Wright; John Cannon; Joanne M. Whittaker; Kara J. Matthews; Rebecca McGirr
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Kinematics and extent of the Piemont-Liguria Basin – implications for subduction processes in the Alps

2020-10-08 | Preprint
Contributors: Eline Le Breton; Sascha Brune; Kamil Ustaszewski; Sabin Zahirovic; Maria Seton; R. Dietmar Müller
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Supplementary material to "Kinematics and extent of the Piemont-Liguria Basin – implications for subduction processes in the Alps"

2020-10-08 | Preprint
Contributors: Eline Le Breton; Sascha Brune; Kamil Ustaszewski; Sabin Zahirovic; Maria Seton; R. Dietmar Müller
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A Quantitative Tomotectonic Plate Reconstruction of Western North America and the Eastern Pacific Basin

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2020-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Edward J. Clennett; Karin Sigloch; Mitchell G. Mihalynuk; Maria Seton; Martha A. Henderson; Kasra Hosseini; Afsaneh Mohammadzaheri; Stephen T. Johnston; R. Dietmar Müller
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Chapter 2 Geodynamics of the SW Pacific: a brief review and relations with New Caledonian geology

Geological Society, London, Memoirs
2020-01 | Journal article
Contributors: J. Collot; M. Patriat; R. Sutherland; S. Williams; D. Cluzel; M. Seton; B. Pelletier; W. R. Roest; S. Etienne; A. Bordenave et al.
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Eocene nephelinite and basanite from the Fairway Ridge, North Zealandia

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85072268633

Part of ISSN: 09670637
Contributors: Mortimer, N.; Dadd, K.A.; O'Toole, L.; Crundwell, M.; Seton, M.; Williams, S.; Etienne, S.; Collot, J.
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Magma production along the Lord Howe Seamount Chain, northern Zealandia

Geological Magazine
2019-09-22 | Journal article
Contributors: Maria Seton; Simon Williams; Nick Mortimer; Sebastien Meffre; Steven Micklethwaite; Sabin Zahirovic
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A Global Plate Model Including Lithospheric Deformation Along Major Rifts and Orogens Since the Triassic

Tectonics
2019-06 | Journal article
Contributors: R. Dietmar Müller; Sabin Zahirovic; Simon E. Williams; John Cannon; Maria Seton; Dan J. Bower; Michael G. Tetley; Christian Heine; Eline Le Breton; Shaofeng Liu et al.
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A reconstruction of the North Atlantic since the earliest Jurassic

Basin Research
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84987739782

Part of ISSN: 13652117 0950091X
Contributors: Barnett-Moore, N.; Müller, D.R.; Williams, S.; Skogseid, J.; Seton, M.
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Regional volcanism of northern Zealandia: Post-Gondwana break-up magmatism on an extended, submerged continent

Geological Society Special Publication
2018 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85042675685

Part of ISSN: 03058719
Contributors: Mortimer, N.; Gans, P.B.; Meffre, S.; Martin, C.E.; Seton, M.; Williams, S.; Turnbull, R.E.; Quilty, P.G.; Micklethwaite, S.; Timm, C. et al.
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Geodynamic reconstruction of an accreted Cretaceous back-arc basin in the Northern Andes

Journal of Geodynamics
2018-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Carmen Braz; Maria Seton; Nicolas Flament; R. Dietmar Müller
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GPlates: Building a Virtual Earth Through Deep Time

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2018-07 | Journal article
Contributors: R. Dietmar Müller; John Cannon; Xiaodong Qin; Robin J. Watson; Michael Gurnis; Simon Williams; Tobias Pfaffelmoser; Maria Seton; Samuel H. J. Russell; Sabin Zahirovic
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No Change in Southern Ocean Circulation in the Indian Ocean From the Eocene Through Late Oligocene

Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
2018-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicky M. Wright; Howie D. Scher; Maria Seton; Claire E. Huck; Brian D. Duggan
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Zealandia: Earth's hidden Continent

GSA Today
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85018727592

Part of ISSN: 10525173
Contributors: Mortimer, N.; Campbell, H.J.; Tulloch, A.J.; King, P.R.; Stagpoole, V.M.; Wood, R.A.; Rattenbury, M.S.; Sutherland, R.; Adams, C.J.; Collot, J. et al.
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Global plate boundary evolution and kinematics since the late Paleozoic

Global and Planetary Change
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85053361375

Part of ISSN: 09218181
Contributors: Matthews, K.J.; Maloney, K.T.; Zahirovic, S.; Williams, S.E.; Seton, M.; Müller, R.D.
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Large fluctuations of shallow seas in low-lying Southeast Asia driven by mantle flow

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84987942259

Part of ISSN: 15252027
Contributors: Zahirovic, S.; Flament, N.; Dietmar Müller, R.; Seton, M.; Gurnis, M.
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Ocean Basin Evolution and Global-Scale Plate Reorganization Events since Pangea Breakup

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
2016 | Book
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2-s2.0-84977079412

Part of ISSN: 00846597
Contributors: Müller, R.D.; Seton, M.; Zahirovic, S.; Williams, S.E.; Matthews, K.J.; Wright, N.M.; Shephard, G.E.; Maloney, K.T.; Barnett-Moore, N.; Hosseinpour, M. et al.
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Revision of Paleogene plate motions in the Pacific and implications for the Hawaiian-Emperor bend

Geology
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84962259136

Part of ISSN: 19432682 00917613
Contributors: Wright, N.M.; Müller, R.D.; Seton, M.; Williams, S.E.
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Subduction controls the distribution and fragmentation of Earth's tectonic plates

Nature
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84977664421

Part of ISSN: 14764687 00280836
Contributors: Mallard, C.; Coltice, N.; Seton, M.; Müller, R.D.; Tackley, P.J.
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Tectonic evolution and deep mantle structure of the eastern Tethys since the latest Jurassic

Earth-Science Reviews
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84990216916

Part of ISSN: 00128252
Contributors: Zahirovic, S.; Matthews, K.J.; Flament, N.; Müller, R.D.; Hill, K.C.; Seton, M.; Gurnis, M.
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Tectonic evolution of Western Tethys from Jurassic to present day: coupling geological and geophysical data with seismic tomography models

International Geology Review
2016 | Journal article
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The GPlates portal: Cloud-based interactive 3D visualization of global geophysical and geological data in a web browser

PLoS ONE
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84962516340

Part of ISSN: 19326203
Contributors: Müller, R.D.; Qin, X.; Sandwell, D.T.; Dutkiewicz, A.; Williams, S.E.; Flament, N.; Maus, S.; Seton, M.
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The Late Cretaceous to recent tectonic history of the Pacific Ocean basin

Earth-Science Reviews
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84961384729

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Contributors: Wright, N.M.; Seton, M.; Williams, S.E.; Müller, R.D.
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Voyage Report for SS2012V06 Eastern Coral Sea Tectonics (ECOSAT), R/V Southern Surveyor, October-November 2012

2016 | Report
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Melanesian back-arc basin and arc development: Constraints from the eastern Coral Sea

Gondwana Research
2016-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Maria Seton; Nick Mortimer; Simon Williams; Patrick Quilty; Phil Gans; Sebastien Meffre; Steven Micklethwaite; Sabin Zahirovic; Jarrod Moore; Kara J. Matthews
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Long-term interaction between mid-ocean ridges and mantle plumes

Nature Geoscience
2015 | Journal article
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Revision of Paleogene plate motions in the Pacific and implications for the Hawaiian-Emperor bend

Geology
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84929470029

Part of ISSN: 19432682 00917613
Contributors: Wright, N.M.; Dietmar Müller, R.; Seton, M.; Williams, S.E.
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Tectonic speed limits from plate kinematic reconstructions

Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2015-05 | Journal article
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10.1016/j.epsl.2015.02.037

Contributors: Sabin Zahirovic; R. Dietmar Müller; Maria Seton; Nicolas Flament
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