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PlateReconstruction.tessellate_subduction_zones should ignore OrogenicBelt by default #379

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When tessellating subduction zones, GPlately now only looks for subduction polarity (not subduction feature type). This means features of type OrogenicBelt also get processed, when only SubductionZone should (by default).

I had mistakenly assumed only a subduction zone would have a subductionPolarity. But I see the GPGIM allows an OrogenicBelt to have one too - it says “Similar to a subduction zone, one plate has often overridden the other, so we use a similar model to that of gpml:SubductionZone”. So I guess there’s potentially an overriding plate there too (but maybe not in all cases).

Solution is to add a parameter to enable sampling all subducting boundaries (including orogenic belts) and have it default to False (to sample only SubductionZones).

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