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An open-source software environment for visualizing and refining plate tectonic reconstructions using high-resolution geological and geophysical data sets
Abstract
We describe a powerful method to explore spatio-temporalrelationships within geological and geophysical data sets byanalyzing the data within the context of tectonic reconstructions.GPlates is part of a new generation of plate reconstructionsoftware that incorporates functionality familiar from GISsoftware with the added dimension of geological time. Here weuse GPlates to reconstruct geological terranes, geophysical grids,and paleomagnetic data within alternative tectonic models of theassembly of Western Australia and the configuration of Rodinia.With the ability to rapidly visualize a diverse range of geologicaland geophysical constraints within different reconstructions,users can easily investigate the implications of different tectonicmodels for reconciling a variety of observations and make moreinformed choices between different models and data.
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“However, the Deccan continental fl ood basalts were not antipodal to the 66 Ma Chicxulub crater at the time of the impact, but instead separated by an epicentral distance of ~130° (Williams et al., 2012;Chatterjee et al., 2013).”
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Richards, M. A., Alvarez, W., Self, S., Karlstrom, L., Renne, P. R., Manga, M., Sprain, C. J., Smit, J., Vanderkluysen, L., & Gibson, S. A. (2015) · Geological Society of America Bulletin · doi:10.1130/b31167.1 · Cited by 210
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- Williams, S. E., Müller, R. D., Landgrebe, T. C. W., & Whittaker, J. M.
- Venue
- GSA Today
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- Geological Society of America
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- 2012-04-01
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- 4-9
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- 1052-5173
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- 76
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