All Stories

  1. Geomagnetic reversals are modulated by the motion of basal mantle structures

    Article • July 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicolas Flament

  2. Vigorous mantle convection triggered the Cretaceous Pacific large igneous provinces

    Article • Nature Geoscience, June 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicolas Flament

  3. Tectonic Reorganizations and Multistability of the Mantle-Plate System

    Article • March 2026, Copernicus GmbH

    Nicolas Flament

  4. The Deep Earth Origin of the Great Unconformity

    Article • January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicolas Flament

  5. Early Permian longitudinal position of the South China Block from brachiopod paleobiogeography

    Article • Biogeosciences, October 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Nicolas Flament

  6. Large volcanic eruptions are mostly sourced above mobile basal mantle structures

    Article • Communications Earth & Environment, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicolas Flament

  7. Early Permian longitudinal position of the South China Block from brachiopod paleobiogeography

    Article • April 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Nicolas Flament

  8. Links between large volcanic eruptions, basal mantle structures, and mantle plumes

    Article • November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicolas Flament

  9. Earth’s tectonic and plate boundary evolution over 1.8 billion years

    Article • Geoscience Frontiers, November 2024, Elsevier

    Nicolas Flament

  10. Factors Contributing to Slab Locations and Geometries in Reconstructions of Past Mantle Flow

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, July 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicolas Flament

  11. Archean Geodynamics Underneath Weak, Flat, and Flooded Continents

    Article • Elements, June 2024, Mineralogical Society of America

    Nicolas Flament

  12. On the impact of true polar wander on heat flux patterns at the core–mantle boundary

    Article • Solid Earth, May 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Nicolas Flament

  13. Kimberlite magmatism fed by upwelling above mobile basal mantle structures

    Article • Nature Geoscience, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicolas Flament

  14. A tectonic-rules-based mantle reference frame since 1 billion years ago – implications for supercontinent cycles and plate–mantle system evolution

    Article • Solid Earth, July 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Nicolas Flament

  15. Mapping global kimberlite potential from reconstructions of mantle flow over the past billion years

    Article • PLOS One, June 2022, PLOS

    Nicolas Flament

  16. Author Correction: Assembly of the basal mantle structure beneath Africa

    Article • Nature, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicolas Flament

  17. Long-term Phanerozoic sea level change from solid Earth processes

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, April 2022, Elsevier

    Nicolas Flament

  18. Northwest Pacific-Izanagi plate tectonics since Cretaceous times from western Pacific mantle structure

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, April 2022, Elsevier

    Nicolas Flament

  19. Assembly of the basal mantle structure beneath Africa

    Article • Nature, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicolas Flament

  20. The evolution of basal mantle structure in response to supercontinent aggregation and dispersal

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicolas Flament

  21. Modelling the role of dynamic topography and eustasy in the evolution of the Great Artesian Basin

    Article • Basin Research, October 2021, Wiley

    Nicolas Flament

  22. Spatio-temporal evolution and dynamic origin of Jurassic-Cretaceous magmatism in the South China Block

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, June 2021, Elsevier

    Nicolas Flament

  23. Reconstructing seafloor age distributions in lost ocean basins

    Article • Geoscience Frontiers, March 2021, Elsevier

    Nicolas Flament

  24. Coupled Evolution of Plate Tectonics and Basal Mantle Structure

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, January 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicolas Flament

  25. The influence of mantle flow on intracontinental basins: Three examples from Australia

    Article • Basin Research, October 2020, Wiley

    Nicolas Flament

  26. Plate tectonics and mantle controls on plume dynamics

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, October 2020, Elsevier

    Nicolas Flament

  27. Drainage and Sedimentary Responses to Dynamic Topography

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, December 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicolas Flament

  28. The deep roots of Earth’s surface

    Article • Nature Geoscience, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicolas Flament

  29. Quantitative stratigraphic analysis in a source-to-sink numerical framework

    Article • Geoscientific Model Development, June 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Nicolas Flament

  30. Constraining absolute plate motions since the Triassic

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, June 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicolas Flament

  31. The interplay of dynamic topography and eustasy on continental flooding in the late Paleozoic

    Article • Tectonophysics, April 2019, Elsevier

    Nicolas Flament

  32. Erratum: Present-dayd dynamic topography and lower mantle structure from paleogeographically-constrained mantle flow models

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, March 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Nicolas Flament

  33. Present-day dynamic topography and lower mantle structure from paleogeographically-constrained mantle flow models

    Article • Geophysical Journal International, December 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Nicolas Flament

  34. Tectonics and geodynamics of the eastern Tethys and northern Gondwana since the Jurassic

    Article • ASEG Extended Abstracts, December 2018, Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    Nicolas Flament

  35. Quantitative stratigraphic analysis in a source-to-sink numerical framework

    Article • Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, November 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Nicolas Flament

  36. Quantitative stratigraphic analysis in a source-to-sink numerical framework

    Article • November 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Nicolas Flament

  37. Geodynamic reconstruction of an accreted Cretaceous back-arc basin in the Northern Andes

    Article • Journal of Geodynamics, September 2018, Elsevier

    Nicolas Flament

  38. On the scales of dynamic topography in whole-mantle convection models

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, August 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicolas Flament

  39. Global kinematics of tectonic plates and subduction zones since the late Paleozoic Era

    Article • Geoscience Frontiers, June 2018, Elsevier

    Nicolas Flament

  40. The Dynamic Topography of Eastern China Since the Latest Jurassic Period

    Article • Tectonics, May 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicolas Flament

  41. Global tectonic reconstructions with continuously deforming and evolving rigid plates

    Article • Computers & Geosciences, April 2018, Elsevier

    Nicolas Flament

  42. Palaeolatitudinal distribution of lithologic indicators of climate in a palaeogeographic framework

    Article • Geological Magazine, March 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Nicolas Flament

  43. Dynamic topography of passive continental margins and their hinterlands since the Cretaceous

    Article • Gondwana Research, January 2018, Elsevier

    Nicolas Flament

  44. Improving global paleogeography since the late Paleozoic using paleobiology

    Article • Biogeosciences, December 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Nicolas Flament, Jan Golonka

  45. The role of deep Earth dynamics in driving the flooding and emergence of New Guinea since the Jurassic

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, December 2017, Elsevier

    Nicolas Flament

  46. Correspondence: Reply to ‘Numerical modelling of the PERM anomaly and the Emeishan large igneous province’

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2017, Nature

    Nicolas Flament

  47. Dynamic topography and eustasy controlled the paleogeographic evolution of northern Africa since the mid-Cretaceous

    Article • Tectonics, May 2017, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicolas Flament

  48. Improving global paleogeography since the late Paleozoic using paleobiology

    Article • Biogeosciences Discussions, April 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Nicolas Flament

  49. Improving global paleogeography since the late Paleozoic using paleobiology

    Article • April 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Nicolas Flament

  50. The deep Earth origin of the Iceland plume and its effects on regional surface uplift and subsidence

    Article • Solid Earth, February 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Nicolas Flament

  51. Origin and evolution of the deep thermochemical structure beneath Eurasia

    Article • Nature Communications, January 2017, Nature

    Nicolas Flament

  52. Influence of mantle flow on the drainage of eastern Australia since the Jurassic Period

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, January 2017, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicolas Flament

  53. Tectonic evolution and deep mantle structure of the eastern Tethys since the latest Jurassic

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, November 2016, Elsevier

    Nicolas Flament

  54. Large fluctuations of shallow seas in low-lying Southeast Asia driven by mantle flow

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, September 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Sabin Zahirovic, Nicolas Flament

  55. A rapid burst in hotspot motion through the interaction of tectonics and deep mantle flow

    Article • Nature, May 2016, Nature

    Nicolas Flament

  56. Formation of Australian continental margin highlands driven by plate–mantle interaction

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, May 2016, Elsevier

    Nicolas Flament

  57. The GPlates Portal: Cloud-Based Interactive 3D Visualization of Global Geophysical and Geological Data in a Web Browser

    Article • PLOS One, March 2016, PLOS

    Nicolas Flament

  58. Alignment between seafloor spreading directions and absolute plate motions through time

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, February 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicolas Flament

  59. Influence of subduction history on South American topography

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, November 2015, Elsevier

    Nicolas Flament

  60. Tectonic speed limits from plate kinematic reconstructions

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, May 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Sabin Zahirovic, Nicolas Flament

  61. Absolute plate motions since 130 Ma constrained by subduction zone kinematics

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, May 2015, Elsevier

    Nicolas Flament

  62. Provenance of plumes in global convection models

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, May 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicolas Flament

  63. Ridge subduction sparked reorganization of the Pacific plate-mantle system 60-50 million years ago

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, March 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicolas Flament

  64. Assimilating lithosphere and slab history in 4-D Earth models

    Article • Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors, January 2015, Elsevier

    Nicolas Flament

  65. Circum-Arctic mantle structure and long-wavelength topography since the Jurassic

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, October 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Nicolas Flament

  66. Linking plate tectonics and mantle flow to Earth's topography

    Article • Geology, September 2014, Geological Society of America

    Nicolas Flament

  67. Spreading continents kick-started plate tectonics

    Article • Nature, September 2014, Nature

    Nicolas Flament

  68. Cenozoic uplift of south Western Australia as constrained by river profiles

    Article • Tectonophysics, May 2014, Elsevier

    Nicolas Flament

  69. Topographic asymmetry of the South Atlantic from global models of mantle flow and lithospheric stretching

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, February 2014, Elsevier

    Nicolas Flament

  70. The evolution of the 87Sr/86Sr of marine carbonates does not constrain continental growth

    Article • Precambrian Research, May 2013, Elsevier

    Nicolas Flament

  71. A review of observations and models of dynamic topography

    Article • Lithosphere, February 2013, Geological Society of America

    Nicolas Flament

  72. A deep subaqueous fan depositional model for the Palaeoarchaean (3.46 Ga) Marble Bar Cherts, Warrawoona Group, Western Australia

    Article • Geological Magazine, April 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Nicolas Flament

  73. Insights on the kinematics of the India-Eurasia collision from global geodynamic models

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, April 2012, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Sabin Zahirovic, Nicolas Flament

  74. Lower crustal flow kept Archean continental flood basalts at sea level

    Article • Geology, October 2011, Geological Society of America

    Nicolas Flament

  75. A case for late-Archaean continental emergence from thermal evolution models and hypsometry

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, November 2008, Elsevier

    Nicolas Flament