25 June 2021

This directory contains the Müller et al. (2019) spreading ridge dataset. Timescale used is Gee and Kent (2007).

Please use the following citation for this dataset:

Müller, RD, Zahirovic, S, Williams, SE, Cannon, J, Seton, M, Bower, DJ, Tetley, MG, Heine, C, Le Breton, E, Liu, S, Russell, SHJ, Yang, T, Leonard, J & Gurnis, M 2019, 'A global plate model including lithospheric deformation along major rifts and orogens since the Triassic', Tectonics, vol. 38, no. Fifty Years of Plate Tectonics: Then, Now, and Beyond, doi: 10.1029/2018TC005462

The directory contains 1 file:
- Muller_etal_2019_GeeK07_Ridges.gpmlz - native GPlates Markup Language .gpml compressed format


To load this dataset in GPlates do the following:

1.  Open GPlates
2.  Pull down the GPlates File menu and select the operation Open Feature Collection
3.  Click the file you want to load
4.  Click Open 

Alternatively, drag and drop the files onto the globe.
                 
In order to reconstruct these features, you will need to load in the underlying rotation model (.rot file) which can be found in the GeoData or downloaded from http://www.earthbyte.org/gplates-2-4-software-and-data-sets/.  

Play around with the GPlates buttons to make an animation, select features, draw features, etc.  For more information, read the GPlates manual which can be downloaded from www.gplates.org.
 

               
Any questions, please email:            
                                        Dietmar Müller dietmar.muller@sydney.edu.au
                                        Sabin Zahirovic sabin.zahirovic@sydney.edu.au
                                        Maria Seton maria.seton@sydney.edu.au
