Files associated with submitted article:

"Full-fit, palinspastic reconstruction of the conjugate Australian-Antarctic margins" 
by Simon Williams, Joanne Whittaker, and R. Dietmar Muller.
Earthbyte Group, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
[Paper #: 2011TC002912]


Folder Contents:

The contents are designed for viewing within the GPlates plate reconstruction software
(which is free, open-source and works on windows, linux and mac)

Rotation Files:
"Global_Earthbyte+AusAnt_Hybrid_Model.rot" - rotation table containing finite rotations 
for the entire global earthbyte model, but importantly the poles for Australia-Antarctica
have been changed to those presented in the submitted manuscript (as well as for earlier 
times )


GPML Files:
"AusAnt_PlatePolygons.gpml - Polygons defining the crustal geometries of Australia and Antarctica
The geometries include separate polygons covering the conjugate margins defining the extent 
of extended continental crust, consistent with the boundaries discussed in the manuscript.

"Ant_ResCOB_****.gpml" - Points showing the restored COB locations derived for different 
crustal thickness grids (see manuscript for full explanation). 

NB: To generate these files in other formats, you can load into GPlates and save out
as GMT ASCII (.xy), PLATES format (.dat) or ESRI shapefile (.shp).


Crustal Thickness Grids:
Four crustal thickness grids are provided, two for each of the conjugate margins. The two
grids represent minimum and maximum crustal thickness estimates as described in the manuscript.
The grids are in GMT netCDF format. See manuscript for full description. Note that although these 
grids contain values well into the ocean areas, some interpolation/extrapolation has been used and 
no attempt has been made to ensure the values far beyond the COB are valid since these values 
do not influence the restored COB locations.