Borders Plate tectonics

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Hi friends

I am writing my paper, and I want to prepare a map that includes topographic earth relief and the border of the plate tectonics. I have the earth relief data, but not the border between Nazca, Antarctic, Scotia and South America plates ¿Do you know where I can find this type of information?

Another question ¿Do you know where I can download the user guide, tutorial, etc in pdf format for pygmt? I have found information in pdf format for setting and scripting and GMT in Linux (Unix), but i am using GMT in anaconda-spyder.

I would appreciate any help.

                             Best regard Adrián
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For example here

http://peterbird.name/publications/2003_PB2002/2003_PB2002.htm

Bird (2003) plate boundaries

you can convert
http://peterbird.name/oldFTP/PB2002/PB2002_boundaries.dig.txt
or use this version:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gavfxo4gdg6z6cs/PB2002_tdiddy.gmt?dl=0

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Hi thwbecker

Thank you for your information about the plate tectonics borders and the paper. I know to whom cite in my paper.

            Best regards Adrián
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Just to follow up, we’re discussing whether to include the plate boundary data at Add plate boundaries as a built-in dataset · Issue #100 · GenericMappingTools/gmtserver-admin · GitHub.

Unfortunately there isn’t a PDF version of the PyGMT documentation. GMT decided to drop PDF documentation in v6.0 (see GMT 6 install complete documentation fails - #2 by seisman), and PyGMT hasn’t had PDF documentation builds before.

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Adrian,

I’ve made a GMT-ready file of Peter Bird’s plate boundaries a while back - available here with instructions/explanation:
https://wiki.paleoearthlabs.org/scientificdata/platetectonics/birdplateboundaries

As @weiji mentions, it is quite likely that this file will be integrated with the GMT remote data sets in the future.

Regards,
Christian

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Chheis-s

Thanks a lot for your help and information

       Best greetings Adrián