# R. Dietmar Müller Back to [[Expanding Earth and Plate Tectonics]] **Role:** lead author of Müller, Sdrolias, Gaina & Roest (2008), [doi:10.1029/2007GC001743](https://doi.org/10.1029/2007GC001743). This is the data printed on the NOAA map Nikolov posted. - **Affiliation at the time:** EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney. - **Co-authors:** Maria Sdrolias (Sydney), Carmen Gaina (Geological Survey of Norway), Walter Roest (Ifremer). - **Relevance:** the paper is built on plate tectonics. It reports subducted conjugate Pacific plates and maps past subduction zones since 140 Ma against slab images in tomography. That is the opposite of how the post uses its map. - The EarthByte group continues to update the grid (Seton et al. 2020 ⚠️ not opened).