Published Magnetic Picks and Parameters for Tectonic Reconstructions

Published Magnetic Picks and Parameters for Tectonic Reconstruction

PIs: P. Wessel (SOEST, U of Hawaii) and R. D. Müller (U of Sydney)
Contributors: M. Seton (U of Sydney), J. Whittaker (U of Tasmania), S. Williams (U of Sydney), N. Wright (U of Sydney)
S. C. Cande (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), J. Stock (Caltech), C. Gaina (U. Oslo), R. Granot (Ben Gurion U.)

Updated 22 November, 2022

What is this site?

This is a collection of published magnetic anomaly and fracture zone picks, organized as input files to the "hellinger" program. Both input and output files are provided, including the parameter files, so that users may completely reproduce the published rotations. For more information, see

Seton, M., J. Whittaker, P. Wessel, R. D. Müller, 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 lookup DOI:10.1002/2013GC005176

Recent Activity

2018-07-21: Added hellinger input files from Granot and Dyment, 2018, for AUS-ANT-MBL Chron 8o and MCQ-ANT, Chron 3ay.
2015-07-14: Fixed a few errors for Chron 5 in Müller et al, 1999 and changed file extension for data picks to ".pick" for compatibility with GPlates.

Alphabetical List of Publications with Data

The data are organized on a per publication basis. All files released in support of a particular publication have been collected in individual zip files and are available below. Click ZIP download

to download a zip archive and use DOI lookup

to look up the article at the publisher. In addition to a global compilation archive, individual files are organized per ocean basin.

Global Reconstruction Data:

DOI	ZIP	Description
N/A		The complete global compilation to date.

Atlantic Ocean Reconstruction Data:

DOI	ZIP	Complete Citation
		Gaina, C., Roest, W. R., and Müller, R. D., 2002, Late Cretaceous Cenozoic deformation of northeast Asia, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 197, 273-286.
		Müller, R. D., Royer, J.-Y., Cande, S. C., Roest, W. R., and Maschenkov, S., 1999, Chapter 2: New constraints on the Late Cretaceous/Tertiary plate tectonic evolution of the Caribbean, in Mann, P., ed., Sedimentary Basins of the World, Volume 4, Elsevier, p. 33-59.

Indian Ocean Reconstruction Data:

DOI	ZIP	Complete Citation
		Williams, S. E., Whittaker, J. M., and Müller, R. D., 2011, Full-fit, palinspastic reconstruction of the conjugate Australian-Antarctic margins, Tectonics, 30, TC6012.
		Whittaker, J. M., Williams, S. E., and Müller, R. D., 2013, Revised tectonic evolution of the Eastern Indian Ocean: Geochem,, Geophys., Geosys., 14, n1891-1909.
		Cande, S. C. and P. Patriat (2015), The anticorrelated velocities of Africa and India in the Late Cretaceous and early Cenozoic, Geophys. J. Int., 200, 227-243.
		Cande, S. C., Patriat, P., and Dyment, J., 2010, Motion between the Indian, Antarctic and African plates in the early Cenozoic: Geophys. J. Int., 183, 127-149.
		Granot, R., and Dyment, J., 2018, Late Cenozoic unification of East and West Antarctica, Nature Communications, 10.1038/s41467-018-05270-w.
		Whittaker, J. M., Müller, R. D., Leitchenkov, G., Stagg, H., Sdrolias, M., Gaina, C., and Goncharov, A., 2007, Major Australian-Antarctic Plate Reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor Bend Time: Science, 318, 83-86.

Pacific Ocean Reconstruction Data:

DOI	ZIP	Complete Citation
		Granot, R., Cande, S. C., Stock, J. M., and Damaske, D., 2013, Revised Eocene-Oligocene kinematics for the West Antarctic rift system, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 279-284.

Marginal Basins Reconstruction Data:

DOI	ZIP	Complete Citation
		Gaina, C., Müller, D. R., Royer, J.-Y., Stock, J., Hardebeck, J., and Symonds, P., 1998, The tectonic history of the Tasman Sea: a puzzle with 13 pieces, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 12,413-12,433.
		Gaina, C., Müller, R. D., Royer, J.-Y., and Symonds, P., 1999, Evolution of the Louisiade triple junction, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 12,927-12,939.

Reconstruction Software

The data files provided are designed to be used with software developed by Ted Chang and co-workers [1]. The latest version can be downloaded as a zip archive.

References

Kirkwood, B. H., Royer, J.-Y., Chang, T. C., and Gordon, R. G., 1999, Statistical tools for estimating and combining finite rotations and their uncertainties, Geophysical Journal International, v. 137, no. 2, p. 408-428.

Maintained by Paul Wessel