plate-tectonics-pb2002-parsing

name	plate-tectonics-pb2002-parsing
description	Specific knowledge of the PB2002 (Bird, 2002) dataset structure for identifying the Pacific plate.

The "PB2002" dataset (by Peter Bird) is a standard dataset for tectonic plate boundaries.

• PB2002_plates.json: Contains polygons. The Pacific plate is typically identified by the code 'PA' in the PlateName or Code field.
• PB2002_boundaries.json: Contains LineStrings. To find the boundary of the Pacific plate, you can either filter boundaries that touch the Pacific plate polygon or simply extract the boundary of the 'PA' polygon itself using the .boundary attribute in GeoPandas.

When calculating the distance "to the Pacific plate boundary", it refers to the distance to the perimeter of the Pacific plate polygon.