Publications | Ingo L. Stotz

2026

PRSA

Synthetic geological hiatus maps as a tool for assessing reconstructions of past dynamic topography

Hamish Brown , Berta Vilacís , Ingo L. Stotz , and 1 more author

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Jan 2026

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  author = {Brown, Hamish and Vilac\'{i}s, Berta and Stotz, Ingo L. and Bunge, Hans-Peter},
  title = {Synthetic geological hiatus maps as a tool for assessing reconstructions of past dynamic topography},
  journal = {Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences},
  volume = {482},
  number = {2330},
  year = {2026},
  month = jan,
  issn = {1364-5021},
  doi = {10.1098/rspa.2025.0249},
}

Tectonophysics

Plate motion drivers: Geodynamical framework and statistical appraisal for the case of the Neogene Nazca–South America convergence

Valentina Espinoza , Juan Martin de Blas , Ingo L. Stotz , and 2 more authors

Tectonophysics, Jan 2026

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@article{espinoza2026,
  author = {Espinoza, Valentina and {Martin de Blas}, Juan and Stotz, Ingo L. and Oddo, Andr\'{e}s Tassara and Iaffaldano, Giampiero},
  title = {Plate motion drivers: Geodynamical framework and statistical appraisal for the case of the Neogene Nazca–South America convergence},
  journal = {Tectonophysics},
  volume = {924},
  pages = {231095},
  year = {2026},
  issn = {0040-1951},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2026.231095},
}

2025

PRSA

Predictions of asthenosphere flow from Couette/Poiseuille models compared to seismic anisotropy and mantle circulation models

I. L. Stotz

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Jan 2025

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@article{stotz2025b,
  author = {Stotz, I. L.},
  title = {Predictions of asthenosphere flow from Couette/Poiseuille models compared to seismic anisotropy and mantle circulation models},
  journal = {Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences},
  volume = {481},
  number = {20250085},
  year = {2025},
  pages = {20250085},
  doi = {10.1098/rspa.2025.0085},
  url = {http://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2025.0085}
}

PRSA

First-order global stress patterns inferred from upper mantle flow models

Jorge N. Hayek , Ingo L. Stotz , Hans-Peter Bunge , and 1 more author

Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Jan 2025

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@article{hayek2025,
  author = {Hayek, Jorge N. and Stotz, Ingo L. and Bunge, Hans-Peter and Carena, Sara},
  doi = {10.1098/rspa.2024.0969},
  journal = {Proceedings of the Royal Society A},
  number = {2315},
  title = {First-order global stress patterns inferred from upper mantle flow models},
  volume = {481},
  year = {2025}
}

PRSA

Tomopac2: an unfolded-slab plate reconstruction validated via mantle circulation models in a closed-loop experiment

Yi-Wei Chen , Jonny Wu , Hans-Peter Bunge , and 3 more authors

Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Jan 2025

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@article{chen2025,
  author = {Chen, Yi-Wei and Wu, Jonny and Bunge, Hans-Peter and Stotz, Ingo L. and Robl, Gabriel and Schuberth, Bernhard S. A.},
  doi = {10.1098/rspa.2024.0726},
  journal = {Proceedings of the Royal Society A},
  number = {2318},
  title = {Tomopac2: an unfolded-slab plate reconstruction validated via mantle circulation models in a closed-loop experiment},
  volume = {481},
  year = {2025}
}

MDPI

Continental Rift Driven by Asthenosphere Flow and Lithosphere Weakening by Flood Basalts: South America and Africa Cenozoic Rifting

Ingo L. Stotz , Berta Vilacís , Jorge N. Hayek , and 1 more author

Minerals, Jan 2025

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@article{stotz2025a,
  author = {Stotz, Ingo L. and Vilac\'{i}s, Berta and Hayek, Jorge N. and Bunge, Hans-Peter},
  doi = {10.3390/min15060644},
  journal = {Minerals},
  number = {6},
  pages = {644},
  title = {Continental Rift Driven by Asthenosphere Flow and Lithosphere Weakening by Flood Basalts: South America and Africa Cenozoic Rifting},
  url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/15/6/644},
  volume = {15},
  year = {2025}
}

2024

PRSA

Dynamic topography and the planform of mantle convection since the Jurassic inferred from global continental hiatus maps

Berta Vilacís , Hamish Brown , Hans-Peter Bunge , and 5 more authors

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Jan 2024

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@article{vilacis2024,
  author = {Vilac\'{i}s, Berta and Brown, Hamish and Bunge, Hans-Peter and Carena, Sara and Hayek, J. Nicol\'as and Stotz, Ingo L. and Wang, Z. Ray and Friedrich, Anke M.},
  doi = {10.1098/rspa.2024.0311},
  journal = {Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences},
  number = {2302},
  pages = {20240311},
  title = {Dynamic topography and the planform of mantle convection since the Jurassic inferred from global continental hiatus maps},
  volume = {480},
  year = {2024}
}

Lithosphere

Kerguelen Plume Drives the Eocene Directional Change in Australian Plate Motion

Ingo L. Stotz , Sara Carena , Berta Vilacís , and 2 more authors

Lithosphere, Jan 2024

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@article{stotz2024,
  author = {Stotz, Ingo L. and Carena, Sara and Vilac\'{i}s, Berta and Hayek, Jorge N. and Bunge, Hans-Peter},
  title = {Kerguelen Plume Drives the Eocene Directional Change in Australian Plate Motion},
  journal = {Lithosphere},
  volume = {2024},
  number = {3},
  year = {2024},
  issn = {1941-8264},
  doi = {10.2113/2024/lithosphere_2023_289}
}

2023

PEPI

Cenozoic upper mantle flow history of the Atlantic realm based on Couette/Poiseuille models: Towards paleo-mantle-flowgraphy

Zhirui Ray Wang , Ingo L. Stotz , Hans-Peter Bunge , and 4 more authors

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Jan 2023

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@article{Wang2023,
  title = {Cenozoic upper mantle flow history of the Atlantic realm based on Couette/Poiseuille models: Towards paleo-mantle-flowgraphy},
  journal = {Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors},
  volume = {340},
  pages = {107045},
  year = {2023},
  issn = {0031-9201},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2023.107045},
  author = {Wang, Zhirui Ray and Stotz, Ingo L. and Bunge, Hans-Peter and Vilac\'{i}s, Berta and Hayek, Jorge N. and Ghelichkhan, Sia and Lebedev, Sergei}
}

JSAMES

Plume driven plate motion changes: New insights from the South Atlantic realm

Ingo L. Stotz , Berta Vilacís , Jorge N. Hayek , and 2 more authors

Journal of South American Earth Sciences, Jan 2023

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@article{stotz2023,
  title = {{Plume driven plate motion changes: New insights from the South Atlantic realm}},
  journal = {Journal of South American Earth Sciences},
  volume = {124},
  pages = {104257},
  year = {2023},
  issn = {0895-9811},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2023.104257},
  author = {Stotz, Ingo L. and Vilac\'{i}s, Berta and Hayek, Jorge N. and Carena, Sara and Bunge, Hans-Peter}
}

2022

PRSA

Evidence for active upper mantle flow in the Atlantic and Indo-Australian realms since the Upper Jurassic from hiatus maps and spreading rate changes

Berta Vilacís , Jorge N. Hayek , Ingo L. Stotz , and 4 more authors

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Jan 2022

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@article{Vilacis2022,
  author = {Vilac\'{i}s, Berta and Hayek, Jorge N. and Stotz, Ingo L. and Bunge, Hans-Peter and Friedrich, Anke M. and Carena, Sara and Clark, Stuart},
  title = {{Evidence for active upper mantle flow in the Atlantic and Indo-Australian realms since the Upper Jurassic from hiatus maps and spreading rate changes}},
  journal = {Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences},
  volume = {478},
  number = {2262},
  pages = {20210764},
  year = {2022},
  doi = {10.1098/rspa.2021.0764}
}

Nat. Ast.

Stochastic accretion of the Earth

Paolo A. Sossi , Ingo L. Stotz , Seth A. Jacobson , and 2 more authors

Nature Astronomy, Jan 2022

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@article{sossi2022,
  title = {{Stochastic accretion of the Earth}},
  journal = {Nature Astronomy},
  volume = {6},
  pages = {951--960},
  year = {2022},
  issn = {2397-3366},
  doi = {10.1038/s41550-022-01702-2},
  author = {Sossi, Paolo A. and Stotz, Ingo L. and Jacobson, Seth A. and Morbidelli, Alessandro and O'Neill, Hugh St. C.}
}

2021

GRL

Yellowstone Plume Drives Neogene North American Plate Motion Change

Ingo L. Stotz , Berta Vilacís , Jorge N. Hayek , and 2 more authors

Geophysical Research Letters, Jan 2021

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@article{stotz2021,
  author = {Stotz, Ingo L. and Vilac\'{i}s, Berta and Hayek, Jorge N. and Bunge, Hans-Peter and Friedrich, Anke M.},
  title = {Yellowstone Plume Drives Neogene North American Plate Motion Change},
  journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
  volume = {48},
  number = {18},
  pages = {e2021GL095079},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095079},
  year = {2021}
}

JGR: SE

Pressure-Driven Poiseuille Flow Inherited From Mesozoic Mantle Circulation Led to the Eocene Separation of Australia and Antarctica

I. L. Stotz , A. Tassara , and G. Iaffaldano

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Jan 2021

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@article{stotz2020,
  author = {Stotz, I. L. and Tassara, A. and Iaffaldano, G.},
  title = {Pressure-Driven Poiseuille Flow Inherited From Mesozoic Mantle Circulation Led to the Eocene Separation of Australia and Antarctica},
  journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
  volume = {126},
  number = {4},
  pages = {e2020JB019945},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB019945},
  year = {2021}
}

2018

GRL

Pressure-Driven Poiseuille Flow: A Major Component of the Torque-Balance Governing Pacific Plate Motion

Ingo Leonardo Stotz , G. Iaffaldano , and D. R. Davies

Geophysical Research Letters, Jan 2018

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@article{stotz2018,
  author = {Stotz, Ingo Leonardo and Iaffaldano, G. and Davies, D. R.},
  title = {{Pressure-Driven Poiseuille Flow: A Major Component of the Torque-Balance Governing Pacific Plate Motion}},
  year = {2018},
  journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
  volume = {45},
  number = {1},
  pages = {117--125},
  keywords = {Pacific Plate, Poiseuille flow, torque balance},
  doi = {10.1002/2017GL075697}
}

2017

GRL

Late-Miocene Pacific Plate Kinematic Change Explained with Coupled Global Models of Mantle and Lithosphere Dynamics

Ingo Leonardo Stotz , Giampiero Iaffaldano , and D. Rhodri Davies

Geophysical Research Letters, Jan 2017

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@article{stotz2017,
  author = {Stotz, Ingo Leonardo and Iaffaldano, Giampiero and Davies, D. Rhodri},
  date-modified = {2017-07-25 12:45:56 +0000},
  journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
  title = {{Late-Miocene Pacific Plate Kinematic Change Explained with Coupled Global Models of Mantle and Lithosphere
  		  Dynamics}},
  volume = {44},
  year = {2017}
}

2014

Tectonics

Rapid South Atlantic spreading changes and coeval vertical motion in surrounding continents: Evidence for temporal changes of pressure-driven upper mantle flow

L. Colli , I. Stotz , H.-P. Bunge , and 6 more authors

Tectonics, Jan 2014

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@article{https://doi.org/10.1002/2014TC003612,
  author = {Colli, L. and Stotz, I. and Bunge, H.-P. and Smethurst, M. and Clark, S. and Iaffaldano, G. and Tassara, A. and Guillocheau, F. and Bianchi, M. C.},
  title = {Rapid South Atlantic spreading changes and coeval vertical motion in surrounding continents: Evidence for temporal changes of pressure-driven upper mantle flow},
  journal = {Tectonics},
  volume = {33},
  number = {7},
  pages = {1304-1321},
  keywords = {plate motion, dynamic topography, asthenospheric flux, continental uplift},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1002/2014TC003612},
  url = {https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2014TC003612},
  year = {2014}
}