GPlates exercise for System Erde III. (2025)

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 07 (Wednesday)	Day 1
May 08 (Thursday)	Day 2
May 21 (Wednesday)	Day 3
Jul 25	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 Müller-Young-Cao model

Day 3

• Presentation: GPlates II
• Reconstructing a single point
• Reconstructing multiple points
• Assignment instructions

More

• Raster data
• Time-dependent rasters