Christopher Scotese
Christopher R. Scotese (born May 4, 1953 in Chicago ) is an American geologist. He is significantly involved in the Paleomap project of reconstructing plate tectonics in the Paleozoic.
Scotese studied at the University of Illinois at Chicago with a bachelor's degree in 1976 and at the University of Chicago with a doctorate in geology in 1985. He was a lecturer at the University of Michigan, researched at the University of Chicago and the University of Texas at Austin and was a geologist at Shell from 1987 to 1990. From 1990 he was at the University of Texas at Arlington with a full professorship from 2002.
He worked in the Paleomap project with Alfred M. Ziegler , Richard Bambach and Rob Van der Voo, among others . As part of the research, they named the ancient continents or Terrane Avalonia and Laurussia . For the future supercontinent he coined the name Pangea Ultima or Pangea Proxima . He also developed educational animation software to simulate plate tectonics.
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| SURNAME | Scotese, Christopher |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scotese, Christopher R. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4th 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |