Dr. Lydian Boschman
2014-2019
PhD Cum Laude (2019): “Reconstructing lost plates of the Panthalassa Ocean”
Supervisors: Prof. Douwe van Hinsbergen, Prof. Wim Spakman
Funding: NWO Open Competition grant
Currently: Assistant-Professor at Utrecht University. See her personal website
Publications
- Montheil, L.*, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Philippon, M., Boschman, L.M., Cornée, J.J., Audemard, F., Wessels, R., Leroy, S., Roncal, J., and Münch, P., submitted, Caribbean biodiversity shaped by Paleogene subduction zone processes, Communications Earth and Environment
- Vaes, B.**, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., van de Lagemaat, S.H.A.**, van der Wiel, E.**, Lom, N.*, Advokaat, E.L., Boschman, L.M., Gallo, L.C., Greve, A., Guilmette, C., Li, S., Lippert, P.C., Montheil, L.**, Qayyum, A.*, and Langereis, C.G., 2023, A global apparent polar wander path since 320 Ma calculated from site-level paleomagnetic data, Earth-Science Reviews 245, 104547
- Andjić, G.*, Vaes, B.**, van de Lagemaat, S.H.A.**, Boschman, L., Dekkers, M.A., Johnston, S.T., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., submitted, Paleolatitudinal drift and major rotation of the Wrangellia superterrane in the Mesozoic: a signal of east-Panthalassa plate motion?, Tectonics
- van de Lagemaat, S.H.A.**, Kamp, P.J.J., Boschman, L.M., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2023, Reconciling the Cretaceous breakup and demise of the Phoenix Plate with East Gondwana orogenesis in New Zealand, Earth-Science Reviews 236, 104276
- Boschman, L.M.**, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Langereis, C.G., Flores, K.E., Kamp, P.J.J., Kimbrough, D.L., Ueda, H., van de Lagemaat, S.H.A.**, van der Wiel, E.**, Spakman, W., 2021, Reconstructing lost plates of the Panthalassa Ocean through paleomagnetic data from circum-Pacific accretionary orogens, American Journal of Science 321, 907-954
- Boschman, L.M.**, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., and Spakman, W., 2021, Reconstructing Jurassic-Cretaceous intra-oceanic subduction evolution in the northwestern Panthalassa Ocean using Ocean Plate Stratigraphy from Hokkaido, Japan, Tectonics, 40, e2019TC005673
- van de Lagemaat, S.H.A.**, Swart, M.L.A.***, Vaes, B.**, Kosters, M.E.***, Boschman, L.M.**, Burton-Johnson, A., Bijl, P.K., Spakman, W., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2021, Subduction initiation in the Scotia Sea region and opening of the Drake Passage: when and why?, Earth-Science Reviews 215, 103551
- Philippon, M., Cornée, J.J., Münch, P., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., BouDagher-Fadel, M., Gailler, L., Quillevere, F., Boschman, L.M.**, Montheil, L.**, Gay, A., LeBrun, J.F., Lallemand, S., Marivaux, L., Antoine, P.-O., and GARANTI Team, 2020, Eocene intra-plate shortening responsible for the rise of a faunal pathway in the northeastern Caribbean realm, PLoS One 15(10), e0241000.
- Philippon, M., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Boschman, L.M.**, Gossink, L.A.W.****, Cornée, J.J., BouDagher-Fadel, M., Léticée, J.-L., Lebrun, J.-F., and Munch, P., 2020, Caribbean intra-plate deformation: Paleomagnetic evidence from St. Barthélemy Island for post-Oligocene rotation in the Lesser Antilles forearc, Tectonophysics 777, no. 22832
- Boschman, L.M.**, van der Wiel, E.***, Flores, K., Langereis, C.G., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2019, The Caribbean and Farallon plates connected: constraints from stratigraphy and paleomagnetism of the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, Journal of Geophysical Research 124, 6243–6266
- Vaes, B.***, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., and Boschman, L.M.**, 2019, Reconstruction of subduction and back-arc spreading in the NW Pacific and Aleutian Basin: clues to causes of Cretaceous and Eocene plate reorganizations, Tectonics 38, p. 1367-1413
- Molina Garza, R.S., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Boschman, L.M.**, Rogers, R., and Ganerød, M., 2019, Large-scale rotations of the Chortis Block (Honduras) at the southern termination of the Laramide flat slab, Tectonophysics 760, p. 36-57
- van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., and Boschman, L.M.**, 2019, How high were these mountains?, Science 363, p. 928-929
- Boschman, L.M.**, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Kimbrough, D.L., Langereis, C.G., and Spakman, W., 2018, The dynamic history of 220 million years of subduction below Mexico: a correlation between slab geometry and overriding plate deformation based on geology, paleomagnetism, and seismic tomography, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19, p. 4649-4672
- van de Lagemaat, S.H.A.***, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Boschman, L.M.**, Kamp, P.J.J., and Spakman, W., 2018, Southwest Pacific absolute plate kinematic reconstruction reveals major mid – Late Cenozoic Tonga-Kermadec slab-dragging, Tectonics 37, p. 2647-2674
- van de Lagemaat, S.H.A.***, Boschman, L.M.**, Kamp, P.J.J., Langereis, C.G., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2018, Post-remagnetisation vertical axis rotation andtilting of the Murihiku Terrane (North Island, NewZealand), New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 51, p. 9-25
- Boschman, L.M.**, Molina Garza, R.S., Langereis, C.G., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2018, Paleomagnetic Constraints on the Kinematic Relationship between the Guerrero terrane (Mexico) and North America since Early Cretaceous time, Geological Society of America Bulletin 130, p. 1131-1142
- Schepers, G.***, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Spakman, W., Kosters, M.E.***, Boschman, L.M.**, McQuarrie, N., 2017, South American plate advance and forced trench retreat as drivers for transient Andean flat subduction episodes, Nature Communications 8, 15249
- Boschman, L.M.** and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2016, On the enigmatic birth of the Pacific plate within the Panthalassa Ocean, Science Advances 2 p. e1600022
- Boschman, L.M.***, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Torsvik, T.H., Spakman, W., and Pindell, J.L., 2014, Kinematic reconstruction of the Caribbean region since the Early Jurassic, Earth-Science Reviews 138, p. 102-136
Outreach
- Traveling Geologist (Canada) – Paleomagnetic fieldwork in Switzerland with Dieke Gerritsen
- Futura Planète (France) – Des scientifiques sont sur les traces d’une grande île disparue dans les Antilles
- Fax info (Saint-Martin) – Granola: the island of which Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth were part
- Wikipedia – GrANoLA
- Pour la Science (France) – GrANoLA, l’île disparue des Antilles
- Le Journal de Saint-Barth (Guadeloupe) – Granola : quand nos îles n’en étaient qu’une
- RCI Fm (Guadeloupe) – Granola : l’île dont faisaient partie St-Martin et St-Barth
- Geology Page (USA) – Tibetan Plateau rose later than we thought
- Traveling Geologist – “Birth of an island arc: insights from St Barthélemy island (Northern Lesser Antilles) with Mélody Philippon”
- Kennislink – ‘Raadsel van de Andes eindelijk opgelost’
- BNR Nieuwsradio – Het raadsel van het Andesgebergte: opgelost
- Deutschlandfunk (Germany) – ‘Neue Theorie für die Entstehung des Pazifiks’
- Traveling Geologist – Paleomagnetism of Costa Rican Pensinsulas with Erik van der Wiel
- Science – ‘Atlas of the Underworld’ reveals oceans and mountains lost to Earth’s history
- Weekendavisen (Denmark) – ‘Fra et punkt i Stillehavet’
- I fucking love science – The Pacific Plate’s kinky birth
- De Stad Utrecht.nl – Utrechtse aardwetenschappers verklaren het onstaan van de Pacifische Plaat
- International Business Times: Scientists reconstruct tectonic activity which led to birth of the Pacific Plate
- Science news: New scenario proposed for birth of Pacific Plate
- Nature – The fiery birth of the Earth’s largest ocean exposed
- Volkskrant – Schoolboek wist al lang hoe de Stille Oceaan zijn bodem kreeg
- Mail online: Birth of Earth’s largest ocean – Scientist reveal how odd line up of tectonic plates created the Pacific millions of years ago
- The Earth Story – There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea
- Parool – Onderzoek naar oorsprong Antillen leidt tot praktische kennis – inzicht in risico’s en kansen’
- Kennislink.nl – De oversteek van de Nederlandse Antillen
- Linda – Curaçao lag vroeger voor de kust van Colombia
- Antilliaans Dagblad – Antillen komen uit Stille Oceaan
- Antilliaans Dagblad – Antilliaanse eilanden uit Stille Oceaan
- The Batrachospermum Magazine (Russia) – Тихоокеанская плита родилась в танце