GPlates exercise for System Erde III. (2024)

This page contains all material that is necessary to learn the basics of GPlates and complete the homework assignment. This material by no means covers everything that is to be known about GPlates. See this page for a more comprehensive treatment.

Schedule

Date	Topic
May 08 (Wednesday)	Day 1 - Intro to plate tectonics
May 09 (Thursday)	Public holiday
May 15 (Wednesday)	Day 2
May 16 (Thursday)	Day 3
Jul 19	Assignment deadline

Material

Day 1

• Presentation: Plate tectonic concepts and intro
• GPlates setup

Day 2

• Presentation: GPlates
• Starting GPlates and the user interface
• Feature collections
• Understanding rotation
• The default (Müller-Young-Cao) model

Day 3

• Presentation: GPlates II
• Raster data
• Time-dependent rasters
• Reconstructing a single point
• Reconstructing multiple points
• Assignment instructions