Important notes

The condition to pass the class is the completion of a homework assigment that depends on the use of GPlates.
Your task will be to write a short report (maximum three A4 pages) with illustrations. Use Times New Roman 12pt, with 1.5 spacing or comparable.
The due date for the exercise is the last day of the lecturing period (2024-07-19 Fri).
The assignmnent will not be graded, but you cannot pass the class if it is not finished.
You can also do the assignment in small groups.
The assignment can be written in German, but English is also welcome.
The link to upload the finished assignment files is on StudOn!

The assignment

Write a short report on the history of the tectonic units of Germany using the PaleoMAP model with particular focus on Erlangen!
Hint: ESRI shapefiles can also be used in a similar way to points to store polygon information (e.g. boundaries of shapes). These shapefiles include data of Germany at 3 different levels of detail. You can use the Landkreis-level polygons to trace different parts of the country. You can also assign plate IDs to the polygons using the Assign Plate IDs menu item.

Create a series of maps proving that the terranes of Germany were not always together.
When did the terranes first connect?
Describe the approximate history of the terranes, which super/megacontinents they took part in.
Put Erlangen on the PaleoMAP PaleoAtlas map, and show where the city was in Pangean times (e.g. at the Permian/Triassic boundary)?
Approximately what was the southernmost paleolatitude that Erlangen was at in the Phanerozoic?