birth_place fields workplaces birth_date residence article_title name alma_mater
chicago , il geology , paleogeography university of texas , arlington 4 may 1953 usa christopher scotese
 christopher r. scotese university of chicago
christopher scotese

christopher r. scotese is a geologist at the university of texas at arlington .
he received his phd from the university of chicago in 1985 .
he is creator of the paleomap project , which aims to map earth over the last billion years , and is credited with predicting pangaea ultima , a possible future supercontinent configuration .
dr. scotese has renamed `` pangaea ultima '' to `` pangaea proxima '' to alleviate confusion about the name `` pangaea ultima '' , which implies that it is the last supercontinent .
