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GPlates is free and open source desktop software for the interactive
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visualisation of plate tectonics for research, educational,
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professional, and other purposes. It is developed by an international
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team of researchers and software developers who refer to internal
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divisions of the University of Sidney and Caltech (California
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Institute of Technology).
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GPlates offers a novel combination of interactive plate tectonic
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reconstructions, geographic information system (GIS) functionality and
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raster data visualisation. GPlates enables both the visualisation and
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the manipulation of plate tectonic reconstructions and associated data
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through geological time.
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GPlates can be used to handle and visualise data in a variety of
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geometries and formats, including raster data, to link plate kinematics
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to geodynamic models, to serve as an interactive client in a
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grid-computing network, to facilitate the production of high-quality
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paleo-geographic maps.
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GPlates requires in runtime pre-packed datasets provided by the project
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or other datasets. By default, this slackbuild does not install any
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dataset, since the download of project's data source is allowed only by
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using a web browser. Standard procedure compliant with curl or wget is
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not allowed.
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If you want to install the data source using this slackbuild follow the
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download instructions reported in README.SBo file and save the archive
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gplates_2.5.0_geodata.zip in the same directory of the slackbuild
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script. The slackbuild autodetect this archive and if found will
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include the datasets in the installation package. Datasets will be
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installed in the directory /usr/share/gplates/GeoData
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Alternative datasets are not handled by this slackbuild. If you want
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to use other datasets you have to add them in local or shared
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directories and apply them using the tools of the application GUI.
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CGAL library is a required dependency, but the build can also use the
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alternative header-only library CGAL5 if installed in your system.
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Published works powered with GPlates should include the following
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citation:
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Müller, R. D., Cannon, J., Qin, X., Watson, R. J., Gurnis, M.,
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Williams, S., et al. 2018. GPlates: Building a virtual Earth through
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deep time. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19.
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doi:10.1029/2018GC007584.
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