Global model of current plate motions

Compilation of global models for current plate motions, including NNR-NUVEL1A (DeMets et al., 1990), NNR-MORVEL56 (Argus et al., 2011), REVEL (Sella et al., 2002), GSRM2.1 (Kreemer et al., 2014) HS-NUVEL1A (Gripp and Gordon, 2002), and PB2002 (Bird, 2003)

Usage

data('cpm_models')

Format

An object 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.rot moves relative to plate.fix

model

Model for current global plate motion

References

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). doi: 10.1029/2011GC003751.

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.

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] "cpm_models"