Plate Models

The table below provides a list of all available plate reconstruction models.

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Plate Reconstruction Models
Model Name	Topology	Static Polygons	Coasts	Continents	COB	Age Grids	SR Grids
Muller2025	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
Shirmard2025	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
Alfonso2024	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Cao2024	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌
Muller2022	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
Zahirovic2022	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
Merdith2021	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Clennett2020	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Clennett2020_M2019	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Clennett2020_S2013	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Muller2019	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
Young2018	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
TorsvikCocks2017	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Matthews2016	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Matthews2016_pmag_ref	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌
Muller2016	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	❌
Scotese2016	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Zahirovic2016	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌
Gibbons2015	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Zahirovic2014	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Shephard2013	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Gurnis2012	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
Seton2012	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
Muller2008	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌

Note

Topology: topological plate polygons and plate boundaries
Coasts: coastlines. The Greenland coastline uses the Danish Geological Survey dataset. The rest of the world uses the World Vector Shoreline from the Global Self-consistent Hierarchical High-resolution Geography (GSHHG) dataset.
Continents: continental polygons, derived from the Static Polygons, containing continental crust and volcanically-modified oceanic crust (including island arcs).
COB: continent-ocean boundary. The COBs are represented as lines along passive margins and do not include data from active margins.
Age Grids: numerical grid of seafloor age
SR Grids: numerical grid of seafloor spreading rate

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