Description of Resources - Müller et al. (2016)

This file provides a detailed description of all of the files that make up the data collection associated with the publication: 
Müller, R.D., Seton, M., Zahirovic, S., Williams, S.E., Matthews, K.J., Wright, N.M., Shephard, G.E., Maloney, K.T., Barnett-Moore, N., Hosseinpour, M., Bower, D.J., Cannon, J., InPress. Ocean basin evolution and global-scale plate reorganization events since Pangea breakup, AREPS

Note: This article has additional supplementary data available with the online publication. 

Note: For information on file formats and what programs to use to interact with various file formats, see "File_Formats_and_Recommended_Programs.txt”.

The files associated with this data collection allow for the visualisation and/or manipulation of the global plate motion model presented by Müller et al. (2016), they include:

Age Grids - Gridded data showing the age of the oceanic crust in millions of years. Age grids in .nc and .jpg formats are provided from present day back to 230 Ma, at intervals of 1 million years. 
•	agegrid_*.nc (26 MB each)
•	agegrid.cpt (4 KB)
•	agegrid_*.00Ma.jpg 

Rotations - Global rotation model that contains the reconstruction poles that describe the motions of the continents and oceans.
•	Global_EarthByte_230-0Ma_GK07_AREPS.rot (448 KB)

Plate IDs - A list of all the plate IDs used in the rotation and geometry files and their corresponding plate names.
•	Global_EarthByte_ID_Table_AREPS.txt (33 KB)
•	Global_EarthByte_ID_Table_AREPS.xlsx (44 KB)

Coastlines - Geometries of the present-day coastlines.
•	Global_EarthByte_230-0Ma_GK07_AREPS_Coastlines.gpml (20 MB)
•	Global_coastlines_2015_v1_low_res.shp (2.6 MB  inc. auxillary files, datum-WGS 1984)

Static Polygons - Includes isochron and terrane polygon geometries
•	Global_EarthByte_GPlates_PresentDay_StaticPlatePolygons_2015_v1.shp (2.6 MB inc. auxillary files, datum-WGS 1984)

Plate polygons and boundary geometries - Topologically closed plate polygons are constructed from the intersection of ridges, transforms, subduction zones and other plate boundary geometries. These 'resolved topologies' are valid at 1 Myr intervals (0-230 Ma). The plate boundary geometries and plate polygons have been assigned plate reconstruction IDs to allow them to be reconstructed using the supplied rotation file.
•	Global_EarthByte_230-0Ma_GK07_AREPS_PlateBoundaries.gpml (35.9 MB)
•	Global_EarthByte_230-0Ma_GK07_AREPS_Topology_BuildingBlocks.gpml (2 MB) 

For more information, please check the link below:
http://www.earthbyte.org/ocean-basin-evolution-and-global-scale-plate-reorganization-events-since-pangea-breakup/