def_plates {rmacrostrat} | R Documentation |
A function to retrieve tectonic plate definitions for a user-specified plate identification number, as defined by the Wright et al. (2013) Global Plate Model. If no arguments are supplied, all plates are returned.
def_plates(plate_id = NULL)
plate_id |
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A data.frame
containing the plate_id
of the tectonic plate and
the name of the tectonic plate as defined by Wright et al. (2013).
Lewis A. Jones
Christopher D. Dean
Wright, N., Zahirovic, S., Müller, R.D., Seton, M. (2013). Towards community-driven paleogeographic reconstructions: integrating open-access paleogeographic and paleobiology data with plate tectonics. Biogeosciences, 10, 1529–1541. doi:10.5194/bg-10-1529-2013.
Paleogeography:
get_paleogeography()
# Get all tectonic plates
ex1 <- def_plates()
# Get name of tectonic plate by ID
ex2 <- def_plates(plate_id = 604)