Supplementary Material to Merdith et al. (submitted)—'A continuous, kinematic full-plate motion model from 1 Ga to present'.

APWP path for Africa from 540 to 320 Ma. GAPWAP for Africa from 320 to 0 Ma

This was calculated after Tetley (2018) using a windowed mean (window=50, step=10). Two timesteps produced erratic behaviour, 430 and 420 Ma. However, there is no palaeomagnetic data from Gondwana to constrain the APWP at this time. In lieu of this we interpolated the APWP for these two time steps from the rotations at 440 and 410 Ma. These interpolated rotations are included below and in the rotation file of this model. The raw APWP poles that were calculated are given at the bottom of the file.

moving_plate Age Lat Lon Angle fixed_plate
701  0.0   90.0    0.0    0.0  000
701 10.0    0.0   97.19    5.31  000
701 20.0    0.0   91.92    6.71  000
701 30.0    0.0  102.08    8.54  000
701 40.0    0.0  117.34   13.73  000
701 50.0    0.0  124.39   15.27  000
701 60.0    0.0  129.74   16.83  000
701 70.0    0.0  138.56   18.91  000
701 80.0    0.0  142.15   19.77  000
701 90.0    0.0  151.23   20.74  000
701 100.0    0.0  159.7   23.92  000
701 110.0    0.0  165.43   28.74  000
701 120.0    0.0  169.28   32.69  000
701 130.0    0.0  168.73   35.79  000
701 140.0    0.0  168.24   39.3  000
701 150.0    0.0  166.55   41.89  000
701 160.0    0.0  165.22   35.73  000
701 170.0    0.0  164.81   33.63  000
701 180.0    0.0  161.57   29.21  000
701 190.0    0.0  156.99   26.56  000
701 200.0    0.0  152.7   26.13  000
701 210.0    0.0  147.26   26.82  000
701 220.0    0.0  146.59   29.53  000
701 230.0    0.0  148.46   37.21  000
701 240.0    0.0  150.42   42.82  000
701 250.0    0.0  152.87   47.36  000
701 260.0    0.0  152.55   51.43  000
701 270.0    0.0  150.95   51.36  000
701 280.0    0.0  148.21   53.97  000
701 290.0    0.0  145.23   57.94  000
701 300.0    0.0  141.98   57.87  000
701 310.0    0.0  140.57   58.66  000
701 320.0    0.0  139.46   63.67  000
701 330.0    0.0  137.91   66.09  000
701 340.0    0.0  128.47   70.9  000
701 350.0    0.0  116.38   78.48  000
701 360.0    0.0  110.03   83.68  000
701 370.0    0.0  108.08   85.39  000
701 380.0    0.0  107.56   86.03  000
701 390.0    0.0  106.38   80.23  000
701 400.0    0.0  103.55   82.08  000
701 410.0    0.0  103.95   68.31  000
*701 420.0    0.0  95.005   85.4002  000
*701 430.0    0.0  88.6223   103.487  000
701 440.0    0.0   83.68  122.11  000
701 450.0    0.0   89.0  126.0  000
701 460.0    0.0   93.06  124.89  000
701 470.0    0.0   94.96  124.8  000
701 480.0    0.0   97.71  120.83  000
701 490.0    0.0   99.15  117.75  000
701 500.0    0.0  101.03  114.0  000
701 510.0    0.0  100.46  112.02  000
701 520.0    0.0  -85.15 -109.96  000
701 530.0    0.0  -90.78 -105.02  000
701 540.0    0.0  -92.16 -100.45  000

*interpolated, below two lines are the calculated APWP poles
701 420.0 0.0 100.67   83.01 000
701 430.0 0.0   98.6   78.66 000

References
Tetley, M.G., 2018. Constraining Earth’s plate tectonic evolution through data mining and knowledge discovery. PhD Thesis.
