Assessing the reliability of paleomagnetic datasets using the R package PmagDiR.

ABSTRACT: Paleomagnetism is the most important source of information for determining the position of tectonic plates in the geological past. Over the last few decades significant advancements have been made in improving the reliability of paleomagnetic data, ranging from analytical methods to statistical assessments. Here I present the first version of PmagDiR, an R-based open-source package which displays, assesses the reliability, and, when possible, corrects given paleomagnetic directions distributions. The main functions of the package are to: plot paleomagnetic directions, their averages and confidence boundaries; apply different direction cut-offs to identify and filter outliers; perform a test for antipodality; compare the distribution shape with the one predicted by a widely accepted paleose

SUBMITTER: Dallanave E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10796433 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature