read.wsm: Read data generated by the World Stress Map API

In abarbour/stress: Tools for Working with Stresses and Focal-mechanism Inversions

Description

Read data generated by the World Stress Map API

Usage

read.wsm(request.id, data.dir = file.path(request.id), ...)

Arguments

request.id	character; the id assigned to the dataset
data.dir	character; the location of the data from request.id
...	additional parameters to read.table

Details

Stress regime defined in the following manner: TF: thrust faulting SH>Sh>SV TS: thrust with strike-slip component SS: strike-slip SH>SV>Sh NS: normal with strike-slip component NF: normal faulting SV>SH>Sh U: unknown

Type of plate boundary according to the global plate model PB2002 from Bird (2003): CTF=Continental Transform Fault CRB=Continental Rift Boundary CCB=Continental Collision Boundary OTF=Oceanic Transform Fault OSR=Oceanic Spreading Ridge OCB=Oceanic Collision Boundary SUB=Subduction zone

References

Heidbach, O., Tingay, M., Barth, A., Reinecker, J., Kurfess, D., and Mueller, B. (2008), The World Stress Map database release 2008, http://dx.doi.org/10.1594/GFZ.WSM.Rel2008

Heidbach, O., and J. Hohne (2008), CASMI - a tool for the visualization of the World Stress Map data base, Computers and Geosciences, 34 (7), 783-791, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2007.06.004

abarbour/stress documentation built on Oct. 5, 2019, 11:20 a.m.