Compilation of global models for current plate motions, including NUVEL1 (DeMets et al. 1990), NNR-NUVEL1A (DeMets et al., 1990), NNR-MORVEL56 (Argus et al., 2011), REVEL (Sella et al., 2002), GSRM2.1 (Kreemer et al., 2014), HS2-NUVEL1 (Gripp and Gordon, 1990), HS3-NUVEL1A (Gripp and Gordon, 2002), P073 (Chase 1978), AM1-2 (Minster and Jordan, 1978), ITRF2020-PPM (Altamimi et al. 2023), and PB2002 (Bird, 2003)
Usage
data('cpm_models')Format
list containing objects of class data.frame
- plate.name
The rotating plate
- plate.rot
The abbreviation of the plate's name
- lat,lon
Coordinates of the Pole of Rotation
- angle
The amount of rotation (angle in 1 Myr)
- plate.fix
The anchored plate, i.e.
plate.rotmoves relative toplate.fix- model
Model for current global plate motion
References
Altamimi, Z., Métivier, L., Rebischung, P., Collilieux, X., Chanard, K., Barnéoud, J., 2023. ITRF2020 Plate Motion Model. Geophys. Res. Lett. 50, 1–7. doi:10.1029/2023GL106373
Argus, D.F., Gordon, R.G., 1991. No-net-rotation model of current plate velocities incorporating plate motion model NUVEL-1. Geophys. Res. Lett. 18, 2039–2042. doi: 10.1029/91GL01532
Argus, D. F., Gordon, R. G., & DeMets, C. (2011). Geologically current motion of 56 plates relative to the no-net-rotation reference frame. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 12(11). 10.1029/2011GC003751.
Chase, C.G. (1978). Plate kinematics: The Americas, East Africa, and the rest of the world. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 37, 355–368. doi: doi:10.1016/0012-821X(78)90051-1
Bird, P. (2003), An updated digital model of plate boundaries, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 4, 1027, doi: 10.1029/2001GC000252, 3.
DeMets, C., Gordon, R. G., Argus, D. F., & Stein, S. (1990). Current plate motions. Geophysical Journal International, 101(2), 425-478. doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.1990.tb06579.x .
Gripp, A. E., & Gordon, R. G. (2002). Young tracks of hotspots and current plate velocities. Geophysical Journal International, 150(2), 321<U+2013>361. doi:10.1046/j.1365-246X.2002.01627.x .
Kreemer, C., Blewitt, G., & Klein, E. C. (2014). A geodetic plate motion and Global Strain Rate Model. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15(10), 3849<U+2013>3889. doi: 10.1002/2014GC005407.
Minster, J. and Jorda, T. (1978). Present-day plate motions. Journal of Geophysical Research, 83, doi:10.1029/jb083ib11p05331 .
Sella, G. F., Dixon, T. H., & Mao, A. (2002). REVEL: A model for Recent plate velocities from space geodesy. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 107(B4). doi: 10.1029/2000jb000033.
Examples
data("cpm_models")
head(cpm_models[[1]])
#> # A tibble: 6 × 7
#> plate.name plate.rot lon lat angle plate.fix model
#> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 Africa af -21.8 18.8 0.139 hs AM1-2
#> 2 Antarctica an 75.6 21.8 0.054 hs AM1-2
#> 3 Arabia ar -3.94 27.3 0.388 hs AM1-2
#> 4 Carribbean cb 66.8 -42.8 0.129 hs AM1-2
#> 5 Cocos co -116. 21.9 1.42 hs AM1-2
#> 6 Eurasia eu -23.2 0.7 0.038 hs AM1-2