
                                 README

               SUPPLEMENTARY DATA FOR HEINE, ZOETHOUT & MULLER
                  "Kinematics of the South Atlantic Rift"
                                  2013
                         http://www.solid-earth.net

      Christian Heine (1,3), Jasper Zoethout (2), R. Dietmar Müller (1)
                 (1) EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences
                  The University of Sydney, Australia
                     (2) Statoil ASA, Stavanger, Norway
              (3) formerly with Statoil GET GME TSG, Oslo, Norway

                 mailto:christian.heine@sydney.edu.au


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Supplementary data accompanying paper
Heine et al., Kinematics of the South Atlantic rift, Solid Earth
http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/sed-5-41-2013


The supplementary data contains 3 directories with geospatial 
data to be used in GPlates as well as high resolution figures
of the maps in the paper.

Directory structure:
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- BasinData (Heine_et_al_SupplementaryData1_BasinKinematics): 
  Mercator projection maps showing the computed amount of extension for 
  individual rift basin segments for the key deforming zones used in the 
  plate kinematic model. PDF format. For details please refer to the readme
  section in the PDF.

- Fig3_ProfileData: 
 Data used to generate Fig. 3 (Continental
 margin cross sections and area balanced sections). Each profile
 is available as SHP file and GMT plain text file.
 
- PaleoTectonicReconstructions: 
 This directory contains 
 reconstruction maps at 1 Myr spacing in Adobe PDF format with
 Africa fixed in present day coordinates.
 
- PlateModel: 
 Feature data and rotation model for use in the
 GPlates plate tectonic reconstruction software.
 Contains rotation file, plate polygons, filtered FA gravity
 and flowlines in *.shp, *.gpml and *.rot format.

 Please refer to the readme file in the PlateModel directory
 for details.
 
 
- Heine_et_al_SouthAtlantic_SupplementaryData_QGISv2.qgs
  A QGIS project file containing the geospatial data of 
  the plate model. Double click to open in QGIS.
  Get QGIS from here: http://qgis.org. QGIS is an open-source
  Geographic Information System and available for most operating
  systems.



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                               GPlates
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Download the open source GPlates software for different OS from 
http://www.gplates.org

1. Fire up GPlates.  
2. Drag all *.shp files and the *.gpml file into the GPlates main window
 (you can also load them under File-> Open feature collection).  
3. Add the *.rot file.  
4. Play. 


CH. Sydney, 2013-04-30


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