SOHCO: Plate Tectonic Reconstruction Movies and Files

Movies and digital plate tectonic reconstruction files illustrate the subduction of the Shatsky-Ojin-Hess conjugate oceanic plateaux under North America. The dataset includes MP4, ZIP, and TXT files totaling 38.5 MB, created by Jonny Wu and last updated in June 2026. The materials are shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Visualizing plate tectonic evolution based on the provided reconstruction movies.
• Analyzing subduction dynamics of oceanic plateaux based on the GPlates reconstruction files.
• Studying Late Cretaceous to early Cenozoic geological events in the North American region.

Strengths

• Includes visual (MP4) and digital (GPlates) reconstruction files for multi-modal analysis.
• Files are shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Last updated date of 2026-06-01 suggests recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The 38.5 MB size indicates a small dataset, which may limit the scope of analysis.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Jonny Wu

Collection Method

Plate tectonic reconstruction modeling.

Time Range

Late Cretaceous to early Cenozoic.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-01 22:55:35

Geography

Shatsky-Ojin-Hess conjugate oceanic plateaux and North America.