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Reference |
Original Data Download to check for updates |
Data Prep |
| Coastlines |
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Natural Earth |
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| Holocene & Pleistocene Volcanoes |
Global Volcanism Program, 2013. Volcanoes of the World, v. 4.7.4.
Venzke, E (ed.). Smithsonian Institution. Downloaded 05 Oct 2018.
https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.VOTW4-2013 |
https://volcano.si.edu/list_volcano_holocene.cfm
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Convert Excel to CSV to DBF. IT may block, and the file should
go to your documents folder. The version combines two separate
files. |
| USGS Plate Boundaries
(line shapefile) |
USGS, earthquakes pages
(KMZ):
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kml.php |
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| Plate outlines (area shapefile) |
- Bird, P. (2003), An updated digital model of plate
boundaries, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 4, 1027,
doi:10.1029/2001GC000252, 3.
- Argus, D. F., Gordon, R. G., and DeMets, C., 2011. Geologically
current motion of 56 plates relative to the no-net-rotation
reference frame, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.
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http://geoscience.wisc.edu/~chuck/MORVEL/PltBoundaries.html |
Converted a shapefile |
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Continental crust outlines. Can extend significant distances
from the coastline. |
Coffin, M.F., Gahagan, L.M., and Lawver, L.A., 1998, Present-day
Plate Boundary Digital Data Compilation. University of Texas Institute
for Geophysics Technical Report No. 174, pp. 5. |
Plates Project, University of Texas
http://www-udc.ig.utexas.edu/external/plates/data.htm
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| Hot spots. |
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From
Plates Project, University of Texas. |
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| Fracture zones. |
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Originally from the Global Relief Data on CD-ROM,
no longer available.
Another option:
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/PT/GSFML/SF/index.html which has
seafloor fabric lineations, including fracture zones, extinct ridges,
V-anomalies, discordant zones, and propagating rifts. |
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| Tsunami |
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https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/tsu_db.shtml
doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7 |
Converted to DBF (shorted many field names) |
| DSDP/ODP site locations: |
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ODP site at Texas A&M, Deep Sea Drilling Project Sites: Legs
1-96, Sites 1-624, Ocean Drilling Program: Legs 100-199,
Sites 625-1222 ArcView files (through Leg 190; provided
by Dr. Sebastian Luning). |
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| Magnetic anomaly point picks |
Seton, M., J. Whittaker, P. Wessel, R. D. Muller, C. DeMets, S. Merkouriev, S.
Cande, C. Gaina, G. Eagles, R. Granot, J. Stock, N. Wright, S. Williams, 2014,
Community infrastructure and repository for marine magnetic identifications: Geochemistry,
Geophysics, Geosystems DOI:10.1002/2013GC005176 |
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/PT/GSFML/ML/index.html |
Prep data
Use data |
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Global CMT earthquake focal mechanisms: >50,000 earthquakes from 1977 on. This has
the focal mechanisms, depth, date, magnitude, and a rough classification
of the earthquakes which have very little oblique slip |
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Dziewonski, A. M., T.-A. Chou and J. H. Woodhouse,
Determination of earthquake source parameters from waveform data for studies of global and regional seismicity,
J. Geophys. Res., 86, 2825-2852, 1981.
doi:10.1029/JB086iB04p02825
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Ekström, G., M. Nettles, and A. M. Dziewonski,
The global CMT project 2004-2010: Centroid-moment tensors for 13,017 earthquakes,
Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 200-201, 1-9, 2012.
doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2012.04.002
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Global CMT |
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| Marine magnetic
anomalies (lines): loads data base with digitized marine
magnetic anomalies. |
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From the
Global Relief Data on CD-ROM. |
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| Time scale
Gee and Kent (2007)
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Marine Magnetic Reversal Time Scale |
Cande, S.C., and D.V. Kent, 1995, Revised calibration of the
geomagnetic polarity timescale for the late Cretaceous
and Cenozoic, J. Geophys. Res., vol. 100, pp.6,093-6,095. |
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| Plate reconstruction total poles |
- Cox,
A., and Hart, R.B., 1986, Plate tectonics: How it works,
Blackwell.
- Duncan, R.A., and Richards, M.A., 1991, Hotspots, mantle
plumes, flood basalts, and true polar wander: Reviews of
Geophysics, vol.29, no.1, p.31-50.
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| Global subduction zone geometries, with dips and
depths |
Hayes, G. P., D. J. Wald, and R. L. Johnson (2012), Slab1.0: A
three?dimensional model of global subduction zone geometries, J.
Geophys. Res., 117, B01302, doi: 10.1029/2011JB008524.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2011JB008524
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https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/slab/ |
convert TXT to DBF, and then to a grid. |