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CANDE, STEVEN

Professor of Marine Geophysics

Degrees:

• B.S., Yale University
• Ph.D., Columbia University

Research Interests:

• Plate tectonics, global plate reorganizations, Cenozoic motion between East and West Antarctica, structure of the Ross Sea, tectonics of the South Pacific
• Geomagnetism, geomagnetic polarity reversal timescale, magnetization of the oceanic crust, paleo-intensity variations of the geomagnetic field.

Courses Recently Taught:

• SIO 160: Introduction to Tectonics
• SIO 240: Marine Geology
• SIO160: Introduction to Tectonics
• SIO240: Marine Geology
• SIO249: Spec Topics in Marine Geology

Honors and Awards:

• Robert L. and Bettie P. Cody Award in Ocean Sciences, 2007
• Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 1998

Mentoring:

• Barckhausen, Udo (Post Doc; 2002-2002)
• Varnel, Steve (Graduate; 1999-2000)
• Bowers, Nancy (Graduate; 1994-2002)
• Tikku, Anahita (Graduate; 1993-1999)
• Dyment, Jerome (Post Doc; 1992-1992)
• Tebbens, Sarah (Graduate; 1988-1994)
• Leslie, Rob (Graduate; 1982-1988)

Croon, M. B., S. C. Cande, and J. M. Stock, 2008. Revised Pacific-Antarctic plate motions and geophysics of the Menard Fracture Zone, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst.,9, doi:10.1029/2008GC002019.

Barckhausen, U., C.R. Ranero, S.C. Cande, and M. Engels, 2008. The Birth of an Intra-Oceanic Spreading Center. Geology, v. 36, 767-770.

Downey, N. J., J. M. Stock, R. W. Clayton, and S. C. Cande, 2008. Correction to History of the Cretaceous Osbourn spreading center, J. Geophys. Res, 113, doi:10.1029/ 2008JB006012.

Downey, N. J., J. M. Stock, R. W. Clayton, and S. C. Cande, 2007. History of the Cretaceous Osbourn spreading center, J. Geophys. Res, 112, doi:10.1029/ 2006JB004550.

Müller, R.D., K. Gohl, S.C. Cande, A. Goncharov, and A.V. Golynsky, 2007. Eocene to Miocene Geometry of the West Antarctic Rift System, Australian J. Earth Sciences, 54, 1033-1045.

Cande, S.C. and J. M. Stock, 2006. Constraints on the Timing of Extension in the Northern Basin, Ross Sea, in “Antarctic Contributions to Global Earth Science,” edited by D.K. Fütterer et al., (9th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 317-324.

Davey, F.J., S.C. Cande , and J.M. Stock, 2006. Extension in the western Ross Sea region – links between Adare Basin and Victoria Land Basin, Geophys. Res. Letts., 33, doi:10.1029/2006GL027383.

Müller, R.D., S.C. Cande, J.M. Stock and W.R. Keller, 2005. Crustal structure and rift flank uplift of the Adare Trough, Antarctica, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 6, Q11010, doi: 10.1029/2005GC001027

Cande, S.C. and J. M. Stock, Pacific-Antarctic-Australia motion and the formation of the Macquarie Plate, 2004. Geophys. J. Int. 157, 399-414.

Cande, S.C. and J.M. Stock, 2004. Cenozoic reconstructions of the Australia-New Zealand-South Pacific sector of Antarctica, in “The Cenozoic Southern Ocean: Tectonics, Sedimentation and Climate Change Between Australia and Antarctica s,” edited by N. Exon . J. Kennett and M. Malone, AGU Monograph 151, p. 5 – 18.

Bowles, J., L. Tauxe, J. Gee, D. McMillan, and S. Cande, 2003. Source of tiny wiggles in Chron C5: A comparison of sedimentary relative intensity and marine magnetic anomalies, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 4 (6), 1049, doi: 10.1029/2002GC000489.

Gee, J.S. and S.C. Cande, A Surface-towed vector magnetometer, 2002. Geophys. Res. Letts., v. 29, DOI 10.1029/2002GL015245.

Stock, J. M., and S. C. Cande, 2002. Tectonic History of Antarctic Seafloor in the Australia-New Zealand-South Pacific Sector: Implications for Antarctic Continental Tectonics, in "Antarctica at the close of a Millennium,” edited by J. A. Gamble, D.N. B. Skinner, and S. Henrys, Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin 35, p. 251-259.

Bowers, N.E. , S.C. Cande, J.S. Gee, J.A. Hildebrand, R.L. Parker, 2001. Fluctuations of the Paleomagnetic Field during chron C5 as recorded in near bottom marine magnetic anomaly data, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 26,369-26,396.

Barckhausen, U., C.R. Ranero, R. von Huene, S.C. Cande, and H.A. Roeser, 2001. Revised tectonic boundaries in the Cocos Plate off Costa Rica: Implications for the segmentation of the convergent margin and for plate tectonic models, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 19,207-19,220.

Gee, J.S., S.C. Cande, J.A. Hildebrand, K. Donnelly, and R. L. Parker, 2000. Geomagnetic intensity variations over the past 780 kyr obtained from near-seafloor magnetic anomalies, Nature, 408, 827-832.

Cande, S.C., J. Stock, R.D. Müller, and T. Ishihara, 2000. Cenozoic Motion between East and West Antarctica, Nature, 404, 145-150.

Tikku, A. and S.C. Cande, 2000. On the fit of Broken Ridge and Kerguelen plateau, Earth Planet. Sci. Letts., v. 180, 117-132.

Srivastava, S.P., L.-C. Sibuet, S.Cande, W.R. Roest, I.D. Reid, 2000. Magnetic evidence for slow seafloor spreading during the formation of the Newfoundland and Iberian margins, Earth Planet. Sci. Letts., 182, 61-76.

Gaina, C., R.D. Müller, and S.C. Cande, 2000. Absolute plate motion, mantle flow, and volcanism at the boundary between the Pacific and Indian Ocean mantle domains since 90 Ma, in: History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, ed. M.A. Richards, R.G. Gordon, and R.D. van der Hilst, AGU Monograph #121, 189-210.

R.D. Müller, Gaina, C., A. Tikku, D. Mihut, S.C. Cande, and J.M. Stock, 2000. Mesozoic/ Cenozoic tectonic events around Australia, in: History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, ed. M.A. Richards, R.G. Gordon, and R.D. van der Hilst, AGU Monograph #121, 161-188.

Raymond, C. A., J. M. Stock, S. C. Cande, 2000. Fast Paleogene motion of the Pacific hotspots from revised global plate circuit constraints", in: History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, ed. M.A. Richards, R.G. Gordon, and R.D. van der Hilst, AGU Monograph #121, 359-376.

Tikku, A. and S.C. Cande, 1999, The oldest magnetic anomalies in the Australian - Antarctic Basin: are they isochrons?, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 661-77.

Heinemann, J., J. Stock, R. Clayton, K. Hafner, S. Cande, and C. Raymond, 1999. Constraints on the proposed Marie Byrd Land - Bellingshausen plate boundary from seismic reflection data, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 25,321-25,330.

Müller, R.D., J.-Y. Royer, S.C. Cande, W.R. Roest and S. Maschenkov, 1999. New constraints on the Late Cretaceous/ Early Tertiary plate tectonic evolution of the Caribbean, in P. Mann ed. Caribbean Basins, Sedimentary Basins of the World, 4 (Series Ed.: K.J. Hsü), p. 33 – 59.

Cande, S.C., J. Stock, C. Raymond, and R.D. Müller, 1998, New constraints on plate tectonic puzzle of the SW Pacific, (short report), EOS, Transactions of the AGU, 79, 81, 1998.

Sclater, J.G., M. Munschy, R.L. Fisher, P.Weatherall, S.C. Cande, P. Patriat, H. Bergh, and R. Schlich, 1997, Geophysical Synthesis of the Indian/Southern Oceans: Part 1, The Southwest Indian Ocean, SIO Reference Series No. 97-6.

Bangs, N.L. and S.C. Cande, 1997, Episodic development of a convergent margin inferred from structures and processes along the southern Chile margin, Tectonics, 16, 489-503.

Tebbens, S.F., S.C. Cande, L. Kovacs, J.C. Parra, J.L. LaBrecque, and H. Vergara, 1997, The Chile ridge: a tectonic framework, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 12,035-12,059.

Tebbens, S.F. and S.C. Cande, 1997, Southeast Pacific tectonic evolution from Early Oligocene to present, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 12,061-12,084.

Jones, E.J.W., S.C. Cande and F. Spathopoulos, 1995, Evolution of a major oceanographic pathway: the equatorial atlantic, in Scrutton, R.A., Stoker, M.S., Shimmield, G.B. and Tudhope, A.W. (eds.), The Tectonics, Sedimentation and Palaeoceanography of the North Atlantic Region, Geological Society Special Publication No. 90, 199 - 213.

Cande, S.C. and D.V. Kent, 1995, Revised calibration of the geomagnetic polarity timescale for the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic, J. Geophys. Res., v. 100, 6093 - 6095.

Cande, S.C., C.A. Raymond, J. Stock, and W.F. Haxby, 1995, Geophysics of the Pitman FZ and Pacific-Antarctic plate motions in the Cenozoic, Science, v. 270, 947-953.

Dyment, J., S.C. Cande, and J. Arkani-Hamed, 1994, Skewness of marine magnetic anomalies created between 85 and 40 Ma in the Indian Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., v. 99, 24,121 - 24,134.

Behrman, J. H., S.D. Lewis, S.C. Cande and ODP Leg 141 Scientific Party, 1994, Tectonics and geology of spreading ridge subduction at the Chile Triple Junction: a synthesis of results from Leg 141 of the Ocean Drilling Program, Geol. Rundsch., v. 83, 832 - 852.

Macario, A., W.F. Haxby, J.A. Goff, W.B.F. Ryan, S.C. Cande, and C.A. Raymond, 1994, Flowline variation in abyssal hill morphology for the Pacific-Antarctic ridge at 65°S, J. Geophys. Res., v.99, 17,921 - 17,934.

Pitman III, W.C., S.C. Cande, J.L. LaBrecque and J. Pindell, 1993, Fragmentation of Gondwana: the Separation of Africa from South America, in, P. Goldblatt (ed.), Biological Relationships between Africa and South America, Yale University Press, 15 - 34.

Bangs, N., S.C. Cande, S.D. Lewis and J. Miller, 1992, Structural framework of the Chile margin at the Chile ridge collision zone, in Behrman, J.H., Lewis, S.D., Musgrave, R.J. et al., 1992, Proc. ODP, Init Repts., 141: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 5-21.

Cande, S.C. and D.V. Kent, 1992a, A new geomagnetic timescale for the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic, J. Geophys. Res., v. 97, 13,917-13,951.

Cande, S.C. and D.V. Kent, 1992b, Ultrahigh resolution marine magnetic anomaly profiles: a record of continuous poleointensity variations?, J. Geophys. Res., v. 97, 15,075-15,083.

Royer, J.-Y., J.G. Sclater, D.T. Sandwell, S.C. Cande, R. Schlich, M. Munschy, J. Dyment, R.L. Fisher, R. D. Muller, M.F. Coffin, P. Patriat, and H. Bergh, 1992, Indian Ocean Plate Reconstructions since the Late Jurassic, Appendix 1, in Synthesis of Results from Scientific Drilling in the Indian Ocean, Geophysical Monograph 70, American Geophysical Union, 471 - 475.

Hayes, D.E., S.C. Cande and J.L.LaBrecque, 1991, Magnetic anomalies: circum-Antarctic to 30°S, [Map with Text], In Marine Geological and Geophysical Atlas of the Circum-Antarctic to 30°, Antarctic Research Series, vo. 54, D.E. Hayes, editor, AGU, Washington, D.C.

Cande, S.C. and W.F. Haxby, 1991, Eocene propagating rifts in the Southwest Pacific and their conjugate features on the Nazca plate, J. Geophys. Res., v. 96, 19,609-19,622.

Shaw, P.R. and Cande, S.C., 1990, High resolution inversion for South Atlantic plate kinematics using joint altimeter and magnetic anomaly data, J. Geophys. Res., v. 95, 2625-2644.

Batiza, R., Fox, P.J., Vogt, P.R., Cande, S.C., Grindlay, N.R., Melson, W.G. and O'Hearn, T., 1989. Morphology, abundance, and chemistry of near-ridge seamounts in the vicinity of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge ~ 26°S, J. Geology, v. 97, 209-220.

Cande, S.C., LaBrecque, J.L., Larson, R.L., Pitman, W.C., III, Golovchenko, X., and Haxby, W.F., 1989. Magnetic lineations of the World's Ocean Basins, (map with text), Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., Tulsa, OK.

Dewey, J.F., Cande, S.C., and Pitman, W.C., III, 1989, Tectonic evolution of the India-Eurasia Collision Zone, Ecologae Geologicae Helvetiae, v. 82, 717-734

Cande, S.C., LaBrecque, J.L. and Haxby, W.F. 1988, Plate kinematics of the South Atlantic: Chron C34 to Present, J. Geophys. Res., v. 93, B11, 13,479-13,492.

Pindell, J.L., Cande, S.C., Pitman, W.C., III, Rowley, D.B., Dewey, J.F., LaBrecque, J.L., and Haxby, W., 1988, A plate-kinematic framework for models of Caribbean evolution, Tectonophysics, v. 155, 121-138.

Cande, S.C., Leslie, R.B., Parra, J.C., and Hobart, M., 1987, Interaction between the Chile Ridge and Chile Trench: Geophysical and Geothermal evidence, J. Geophys. Res., v. 92, 495-520.

Cande, S.C. and Leslie, R.B., 1986, Late Cenozoic Tectonics of the Southern Chile Trench, J. Geophys. Res., v. 91, 471-496.

Schouten, H., Cande, S.C. and Klitgord, K., 1986, Total intensity magnetic anomalies on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 24°N-36°N, in 3 sheets, OMD Site VIII.

Cande, S.C., 1986, Nazca-South America plate interactions since 50 m.y.B.P., In Hussong, D.M., Dang, S.P., Kulm, L.D., Couch, R.W., and Hilde, T.W.C., Peru-Chile Trench Offshore Peru, Atlas 9, Ocean Margin Drilling Program regional Atlas Series, Marine Science International, Woods Hole, MA, Sheet 14.

Cande, S.C., Searle, R.C. and Hill, I., 1985, Tectonic fabric of the seafloor near North Central Atlantic Drill Sites, In Bougault, H., Cande, S.C., et al., Init. Repts. DSDP, 82, Washington (U.S. Gov't. Printing Office), 17-34.

Hill, I. and Cande, S.C., 1985, Downhole logging and laboratory physical properties measurements on DSDP Leg 82, In Bougautl, H., Cande, S.C., et al., Init. Repts. DSDP, 82, Washington (U.S. Gov't. Printing Office), 351-360.

Hill, I. and Cande, S.C., 1985, Thermal measurements and seawater downflow into 35 Ma old oceanic crest, central North Atlantic, In Bougault, H., Cande, S.C. et al., Init. Repts. DSDP, 82, Washington (U.S. Gov't. Printing Office), 361-368.

Bougault, H., Cande, S.C., et al., 1985, Site Chapters 556 to 564, In Bougault, H., Cande, S.C. et al., Init. Repts. DSDP, 82, Washington (U.S. Gov't. Printing Office), 61-350.

LaBrecque, J.L., and Cande, S.C., 1985, Total intensity magnetic anomaly profiles, In Ocean margin Drilling Program, Regional Data Synthesis Series, Atlas 13, Sheets 9-11, South Atlantic Ocean and adjacent Antarctic continental margin, edited by J.L. LaBrecque, Marine Science International, Woods Hole.

Larson, R.L., W.C. Pitman, III, X. Golovchenko, S.C. Cande, J.F. Dewey, W.F. Haxby, and J.L. LaBrecque, 1985, The bedrock geology of the world (map): New York, W.H. Freeman and Co.

Bougault, H. and S.C. Cande, 1985, Background, Objectives and summary of principal results: DSDP Sites 556-564, In Bougault, H., Cande, S.C. et al., Init. Repts. DSDP, 82, Washington (U.S. Gov't. Printing Office), 5-16.

Cande, S.C. and Kent, D.V., 1985, Extensional tectonics and marine magnetic anomalies: a comment on "Tectonic rotations in extensional regimes and their paleomagnetic consequences for oceanic basalts" by K.C. Verosub and E.M. Moores, J. Geophys. Res., v. 90, 4647-4651.

Mutter, J.C., K.A. Hegarty, S.C. Cande, and J.K. Weissel, 1985, Breakup between Australia and Antarctica: A brief review in the light of new data, Tectonophysics, v. 114, 255-279.

LaBrecque, J.L., Cande, S.C. and Jarrard, R.D., 1985, The intermediate wavelength magnetic anomaly field of the North Pacific and possible source distribution, J. Geophys. Res., v. 90., 2549 – 2564.

Rabinowitz, P.D., J.R. Heirtzler and S.C. Cande, 1984. Magnetic anomaly profiles along ship's tracks, In Ocean Margin Drilling Program, Regional Data Synthesis Series Atlas 4 - Eastern North American Continental Margin and Adjacent Ocean Floor - 28° to 36°N and 70° to 82°W.

Heirtzler, J.R. and S.C. Cande, 1984, Magnetic total intensity anomalies, In Ocean Margin Drilling Program, Regional Data Synthesis Series Atlas 5 Eastern North American Continental Margin and Adjacent Ocean floor - 28° to 36°N and 70° to 82°W.

Heirtzler, J.R. and S.C. Cande, 1984, Magnetic total intensity anomalies, In Ocean Margin Drilling Program, Regional Data Synthesis Atlas 4 - Eastern North American Continental Margin and Adjacent Ocean Floor - 34° to 41°N and 68° to 78°W.

Rabinowitz, P.D., Heirtzler, J.R. and S.C. Cande, 1984, Magnetic anomaly profiles along ship tracks, In Ocean Margin Drilling Program, Regional Data Synthesis Series Atlas 2 - Eastern North American Continental Margin and Adjacent Ocean Floor - 39° to 46°N and 54° to 64°W.

Cande, S.C. , P.D. Rabinowitz and J.R. Heirtzler, 1984, Magnetic total intensity anomalies, In Ocean Margin Drilling Program, Regional Synthesis Series Atlas 2 - Eastern North American Continental Margin and Adjacent Ocean Floor - 39° to 46°N and 54° to 64°W.

LaBrecque, J.L. and S.C. Cande, 1984, Intermediate wavelength magnetic anomalies over the Central Pacific, J. Geophys. Res., v. 89, 11124-11134.

Mutter, J. and Cande, S.C., 1983, The early opening between Broken Ridge and Kerguelen Plateau, Earth and Planet. Sci. Letts, v. 65, 369-376.

LaBrecque, J.L., Cande, S.C. and Jarrard, R.D., 1982, The intermediate wavelength magnetic anomaly field of the North Pacific and possible source distribution, NASA Final Report.

Mammerickx, J. and S.C. Cande, 1982, (Southeast Pacific) Sheet 5.15 of the General Bathymetric Chart of the Ocean (GEBCO), Canadian Hydrographic Service, Ottawa, Canada.

Cande, S.C., and J.C. Mutter, 1982, A revised identification of the oldest seafloor spread-ing anomalies between Australia and Antarctic, Earth and Planet. Sci. Letts., v. 58, 151-160.

Cande, S.C., Herron, E.M., and B.R. Hall, 1982, The early Cenozoic tectonic history of the Southeast Pacific, Earth and Planet. Sci. Letts, v. 57, 63-74.

Herron, E.M., Cande, S.C. and Hall, B.R., 1981, An active spreading center collides with a subduction zone: a geophysical study of the Chile Margin Triple Junction, Geol. Soc. Amer. Memoir 154, Nazca Plate: Crustal Formation and Andean Convergence, 683-702.

Cande, S.C. and Rabinowitz, P.D., 1979, Magnetic anomalies of the continental margin of Brazil (map with text), Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., Special Map Series.

Rabinowitz, P.D., Cande, S.C. and Hayes, D.E., 1979. The J-Anomaly in the Central North Atlantic, In: Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 43, Tucholke, B., Vogt, P., et al. (eds.), U.S. Gov't. Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 879-886.

Blakely, R.J., and Cande, S.C., 1979, Marine magnetic anomalies, Reviews of Geophy-sics and Space Physics, v. 17, 204-214.

Cande, S.C., Larson, R.L. and LaBrecque, J.L., 1978, Magnetic lineations in the Pacific Jurassic quiet zone: Earth and Planet. Sci. Letts., v. 41, 434-440.

Rabinowitz, P.D., Cande, S.C. and Hayes, D.E., 1978. Grand Banks and the J. Anomaly Ridge: Science, v. 202, 71-73.

Cande, S.C., and Rabinowitz, P.D., Mesozoic sea-floor spreading bordering conjugate continental margins of Angola and Brazil: 10th Annual Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, TX, 1869-1976, 1978.

Cande, S.C., 1978, Anomalous behavior of the paleomagnetic field inferred from the skewness of anomalies 33 and 34: Earth and Planet. Sci. Letts, v. 40, 275-286.

Cande, S.C., and Kristoffersen, Y., 1977, Late Cretaceous magnetic anomalies in the North Atlantic, Earth and Planet. Sci. Letts., v. 35, 215-224.

LaBrecque, J.L., Kent, D.V., and Cande, S.C., 1977, Revised magnetic polarity time scale for Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic time: Geology, v. 5, 330-335.

Rabinowitz, P.D., Cande, S.C., and LaBrecque, J.L., 1976, The Falkland Plateau and Agulhas Fracture Zone: The boundary between oceanic and continental basement at conjugate continental margins, In; deAlmeida, F.F.M., ed., International Sympo-sium on Continental Margins of Atlantic type: Anais de Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, v. 48, 241-252.

Schouten, H., and Cande, S.C., 1976, Paleomagnetic poles from marine magnetic anom-alies: Geophys. J. Roy. Astr. Soc., v. 44, 567-575.

Cande, S.C., and Kent, D.V., 1976, Constraints imposed by the shape of marine magnetic anomalies on the magnetic source: J. Geophys. Res., v. 81, 4157-5162.

Cande, S.C., 1976, A paleomagnetic pole from Late Cretaceous marine magnetic anomalies in the Pacific: Geophys. J. Roy. Astr. Soc., v . 44, 547-566.

Cande, S.C., and LaBrecque, 1974, Behavior of the Earth's paleomagnetic field from small scale marine magnetic anomalies: Nature, v. 247, 26-28.