Electronic Data Submission for Paper 2003GL017992

Cenozoic evolution of Neotethys and implications for the causes of plate motions.

McQuarrie, N., Stock, J.M., Verdel, C., and Wernicke, B.P.

California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
MC 100-23, Pasadena, CA 91125

Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 30, doi:10.1029/2003GL017992, 2003.

Introduction
This data set contains the rotations (angle and pole of rotation) used in the 
plate kinematic reconstructions presented in this paper as well as the partial 
uncertainty rotations used to generate the error ellipses shown in 
supplementary Figure 1.  The data is given in table1, ROTATION.TXT.   
Table 2, KINEMATICS.TXT is a table listing the cumulative displacements shown in 
supplementary Figure 1. AR is Arabian plate, AF is African plate, minor and major 
axis are the width and length of the 95% ellipse given in kilometers, Ellipse 
azimuth is the azimuth of the 95% ellipse in E°.  Rates presented in the table 
given as mm/yr. and are averaged over the interval to the present time.
TRACKS_Ar_Er.EPS is Supplementary Online Material Figure 1.  It is a map showing 
cumulative displacements of five points on the Arabian plate.
VOLCANIC_THICK.EPS is Supplementary Online Material Figure 2.  It is a graph 
correlating thickness of volcanic units in Iran and North America and comparing 
those thicknesses to the rates of convergence between oceanic and continental 
plates.


1. 2003GL017992-Table1.txt (ROTATION.TXT)  
Rotations (angle and pole of rotation) used in the plate kinematic 
reconstructions presented in this paper as well as the partial uncertainty 
rotations used to generate the error ellipses shown in Supplementary figure 1.  
Rotations are from North Atlantic [Srivastava et al., 1990; Srivastava and 
Tapscott, 1986], Central Atlantic [Klitgord and Schouten, 1986], and reconstructions 
across the Red Sea [Joffe and Garfunkel, 1987].
1.1 Column "plates" plates involved in rotation Ar = Arabia, Af=Africa, NA= North 
    America, Eur= Europe.
1.2 Column "lat" degrees N.
1.3 Column "long" degrees E
1.4 Column  "angle"  angle of best fit rotation 
1.5-1.13 Columns "lat (un#)" "long (un#)" "angle (un#)" are the three uncertainty 
    rotations to determine the error ellipse.
1.14 Column "chron"  is the chron number for each rotation.
1.15 Column "age" is the age of the chron number from Cande and Kent [1995].


2. 2003GL017992-Table2.txt (KINEMATICS.TXT)
Table listing the cumulative displacements in Figure 1. AR is Arabian plate, 
AF is African plate, minor and major axis are the width and length of the 95% 
ellipse given in kilometers, and ellipse azimuth is the azimuth of the 95% 
ellipse in E°.  Rates presented in the table given as mm/yr. and are averaged over 
the interval to the present time.
1.1 Column "plates" plates on which rotated points are located Ar = Arabia, Af=Africa. 
1.2 Column "lat" degrees N. latitude of rotated point.
1.3 Column "long" degree E. longitude of rotated point.
1.4 Column "major axis" is the major axis of the uncertainty ellipse given in km.
1.5 Column "minor axis" is the minor axis of the uncertainty ellipse given in km.
1.6 Column "ellipse az." is the azimuth of the 95% ellipse in E°.
1.7 Column "max rate" is the maximum rate of motion from age of chron to present given in mm/yr.
1.8 Column "min rate" is the minimum rate of motion from age of chron to present given in mm/yr.
1.9 Column "best fit" is the best-fit rate of motion from age of chron to present given in mm/yr.

3. 2003GL017992-Figure1.eps (TRACKS_Ar_Er.EPS)
Map showing cumulative displacements of five points on the Arabian plate. 
(black circles) and two points on the African plate (gray circles) relative 
to stable Eurasia for the times of anomalies 0, 5, 6, 13, 18, 20, 21, 25, and 31. 
Corresponding ages are 0, 10.59, 19.6, 33.3, 39.3, 43.2, 47.1, 56.1, 67.7 Ma.  
Ellipses indicate 95% uncertainties in the point positions.  The sequence of rotations 
is Arabia to Africa to North America to Eurasia.   Poles and angles of rotation are 
from North Atlantic [Srivastava et al., 1990; Srivastava and Tapscott, 1986], 
Central Atlantic [Klitgord and Schouten, 1986], and reconstructions across the Red 
Sea [Joffe and Garfunkel, 1987].

4. 2003GL017992-Figure2.eps (VOLCANIC_THICK.EPS)
Graph showing volcanic accumulation rates for the Urumieh-Dokhtar arc in Iran  
(patterned) and the early Tertiary arc of the western United States (shaded) and 
coast perpendicular convergence rates for the Neotethys and the Farallon oceanic 
plates [Engebretson et al., 1984; Stock and Molnar, 1988].  Sources for volcanic age 
and thickness in Iran are Jahanabad [Aghanabai, 1992], Kerman [Dimitrijevic, 1973; 
Hassanzadeh, 1993], Saveh [Amidi, 1984].  Sources for volcanic age and thickness in 
Tertiary arc of the western United States; Absaroka [Smedes and Prostka, 1972], E.
Central Nevada [Gans et al., 1989], Durango [Steven et al., 1974], Marysvale [Rowley 
et al., 2002], Yerington [Proffett and Dilles, 1984], Yucca Mountain [Frizzell and 
Shulters, 1990], sources for North America Cordillera [Barton, 1996; Ducea, 2001].
 
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