Define tectonic plates

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.

Usage

def_plates(plate_id = NULL)

Arguments

plate_id: integer. The unique identification number(s) of the desired plate(s) to return a definition for. If NULL (default), all plates are returned.

Value

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).

Developer(s)

Lewis A. Jones

Reviewer(s)

Christopher D. Dean

References

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 .

Examples

# \donttest{
 # Get all tectonic plates
 ex1 <- def_plates()
 # Get name of tectonic plate by ID
 ex2 <- def_plates(plate_id = 604)
# }