rmacrostrat (version 1.0.0)

def_plates: Define tectonic plates

Description

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)

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).

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.

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. tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.5194/bg-10-1529-2013").

See Also

Paleogeography: get_paleogeography()

Examples

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