

Present-day hotspot locations hotspots.gmt PLATES_PlateBoundary_ArcGIS.zip - ArcInfo shapefiles KMZ files (can be used with Google Earth)

Ridge.gmt - GMT-formatted file for use with psxy -M GMT-formatted (ASCII) files for use with psxy -M _120702.pdf - Reference list for plate boundaries (updated 02 July 2012) ( PDF)Ĭheck out our image of the Present-Day plate boundaries.ĭigital files of the Present-Day plate boundaries are available below:Ģ04_plate_pb.pdf - Report on plate boundaries University of Texas Institute for Geophysics Technical Report No. Really old data set of political boundaries, already in PLATES format so you can use in GPlates, but likely outdated:Īfricap.dat asiap.dat europp.dat indop.dat namerp.dat samerp.dat u.s.įor Present-Day plate boundaries, please use:Ĭoffin, M.F., Gahagan, L.M., and Lawver, L.A., 1998, Present-day Plate Boundary Digital Data Compilation. Find data files of political boundaries: Given a PLATES-formatted data file, count the number of points in each 'string' and add it to the header (output file is in PLATES format): point.f (FORTRAN) Given a PLATES-formatted data file, make a symbol at each point (output file is in PLATES format): makesymbol.f (FORTRAN, after JYR) Convert PLATES-format files to GMT format (for use with psxy -M) : plates2gmt.f (FORTRAN) Convert GMT-format (-M) files to PLATES format: gmt2plates.f (FORTRAN) Description of PLATES data format (for GPlates and other users) This includes ourĮric Rosencrantz's "Overview of the Cuban Orogen" (Cuba atlas)Įric Rosencrantz's Cuba Catalog (with well logs, reports, and some references) - to be available soon. PLATES has archived some of its atlases and data at The University of Texas at Austin Texas ScholarWorks under the Institute for Geophysics community. Users can click on links and save to disk. We make no claims to accuracy of the data.
