finalise a list of supported reconstruction models

[michaelchin]

We need to make an official list of supported reconstruction models and update the doc accordingly. I will bring this matter up in the next auscope meeting.

Let's use the table below to finalise the list.

Model name string Identifier	Rot. files	Topology features	Static polygons	Coast-lines	Cont-inents	COB	Age grids	SR grids
Alfonso2024.	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Muller2019	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
Muller2016	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	❌
Merdith2021	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Cao2020	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Clennett2020	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
Seton2012	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	✅	✅	❌
Matthews2016	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Merdith2017	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Pehrsson2015	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
TorsvikCocks2017	✅	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Young2019	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Clennett2020_M19	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Clennett2020_S13	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Muller2008	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Muller2022	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
Scotese2016	✅	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Shephard2013	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌

• add Alfonso2024
• drop Scotese2008 (in email Scotese2016 and Scotese2008)
• drop Li2008 (in email Merdith2017 and Li2008)
• Golonka (undecided yet)

[brmather]

Talk to Bianca (RA) about this as she is migrating all the plate models to Zenodo.

[michaelchin]

This issue will also close https://github.com/GPlates/gplately/issues/149

[michaelchin]

add new model "Alfonso2024" -- https://zenodo.org/records/11392269

[michaelchin]

I have sent email "Golonka" to customers regarding the Golonka models in GPlately and plate model manager. One of the customers confirmed that the original Golonka2007 is different from the Golonka model in plate model manager.

Waiting for more specific instructions from customers regarding "Golonka" model. Do nothing until having got further instructions from customers.

[michaelchin]

I have sent an email "Reconstruction models on Zenodo" to the person who is in charge of uploading models to Zenodo for a list of models on Zenodo. Waiting for the list.

[michaelchin]

• Muller_etal_2022_SE: A tectonic-rules-based mantle reference frame since 1 billion years ago – implications for supercontinent cycles and plate–mantle system evolution (latest version 1.2.2)

• Merdith_etal_2021_ESR: Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking theNeoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic (latest version 1.2.2)

• Clennett_etal_2020_G3: A Quantitative Tomotectonic Plate Reconstruction of Western North America and the Eastern Pacific Basin

• Muller_etal_2019_Tectonics: A Global Plate Model Including Lithospheric Deformation Along Major Rifts and Orogens Since the Triassic (latest version 3.0)

• Young_etal_2018_GeosciFrontiers: Global kinematics of tectonic plates and subduction zones since the late Paleozoic Era

• Merdith_etal_2017_GR: A full-plate global reconstruction of the Neoproterozoic

• Matthews_etal_2016_GPC: Global plate boundary evolution and kinematics since the late Paleozoic

• Zahirovic_etal_2016_ESR: Tectonic evolution and deep mantle structure of the eastern Tethys since the latest Jurassic

• Muller_etal_2016_AREPS: Ocean basin evolution and global-scale plate reorganization events since Pangea breakup (latest version 1.17)

• Zahirovic_etal_2014_SE/Gibbons_etal_2015_GR: A tectonic model reconciling evidence for the collisions between India, Eurasia and intra-oceanic arcs of the central-eastern Tethys (awaiting approval)

• Shephard_etal_2013_ESR: The tectonic evolution of the Arctic since Pangea breakup: Integrating constraints from surface geology and geophysics with mantle structure

• Seton_etal_2012_EPSL: Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200 Ma

• Shephard_etal_2012_EPSL: Testing absolute plate reference frames and the implications for the generation of geodynamic mantle heterogeneity structure

• Gurnis_etal_2012_CompGeosci: Plate Tectonic Reconstructions with Continuously Closing Plates

• Scotese_PaleoAtlas_2016_v3: PALEOMAP PaleoAtlas for GPlates (tutorial)

• Alfonso_etal_2024_modClennettMuller: A Modified Global Plate Model Including Quantitative Tomotectonic Plate Reconstruction of Western North America and the Eastern Pacific Basin (standalone model for an already existing Zenodo upload)

[michaelchin]

This issue should be a discussion. Convert to discussion.