[GPlates-discuss] reference question Earthbyte plate IDs

[Mark Brandon]

You can find documentation on this issue by searching the web with the terms: plate id and gplates.

Also, you can use the feature select option in gplates to select and identify plate ids from the gplates map.
Best,
Mark 

> On Jun 15, 2018, at 3:40 AM, Franziska Franeck <franziska.franeck at nhm.uio.no> wrote:
> 
> Hei Christian,
> Thanks a lot for your fast reply. I am sorry for being not more specific.
> https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/EQfKCjZrzqH1NQz9HWbj3d?domain=earthbyte.org
> I am using the plateID assignment from this page (and just saw that the licence was a separate link.. sorry for overlooking that.). So I guess I have to cite Müller et al. (2008), Age, spreading rates and spreading asymmetry of the world's ocean crust.
> Where can I find overviews of later/updated versions or does anyone know which of the versions is used in Wright et al. 2013, since I believe that this is the version used in PBDB?
> Best regards,
> Franziska
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> On Behalf Of Christian.Heine at shell.com
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>> Subject: Re: [GPlates-discuss] reference question Earthbyte plate IDs
>> 
>> Hi Franziska,
>> 
>>> I am using the earthbyte plate IDs in one of my project for
>>> identifying palaeocontinents (PBDB output). Unfortunately I am
>>> struggling to find the correct reference.
>>> Can anyone tell me which reference is the correct one for the plate IDs?
>> 
>> This depends a bit on which PlateID data you are using...
>> 
>>> I see Wright et al. (2013) refer to the IDs since the actual ID list
>>> is from 2007 I doubt that this is the correct reference.
>> 
>> There are quite some incarnations of PlateIDs around which have changed with
>> time and the various releases of GPlates. So it would be good to know which
>> version you are using - "the earthbyte plate IDs" is a bit vague.
>> 
>> I **think** that the first 'official' citation for PlateID assignments was Maria
>> Seton et al.'s 2012 Earth Sci Rev paper which was at the time incorporated in the
>> GPlates Sample Data as base model. That paper is also referenced in the Wright
>> et al. 2013 paper. Previous PlateID versions were never published as such if I
>> recall correctly, but they were released as GPlates Sample Data - in that case you
>> should probably use Boyden et al., 2011 [1].
>> 
>> If you're looking to find out which plate polygon assignment PBDB uses, you
>> might have to ask them. I cannot find any info on the plate polygon versions on
>> the PBDB website. Might well be that this is the Seton et al., ESR 2012 model.
>> 
>> Hope I haven't misunderstood your question, Christian
>> 
>> 
>> [1] Boyden, James A. and Müller, R. Dietmar and Gurnis, Michael and Torsvik,
>> Trond H. and Clark, James A. and Turner, Mark and Ivey-Law, Hamish and Watson,
>> Robin J. and Cannon, John S. (2011) Next-generation plate-tectonic
>> reconstructions using GPlates. In: Geoinformatics: Cyberinfrastructure for the
>> Solid Earth Sciences. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge, pp. 95-113. ISBN
>> 9780521897150. https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/AWB8Ck8vAZt3GzDNSV03Re?domain=authors.library.caltech.edu
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