4DPlates: On the fly visualization of multilayer geoscientific datasets in a plate tectonic environment

Clark, Stuart; Skogseid, Jakob; Stensby, Vidar; Smethurst, M. A.; Tarrou, Christian; Bruaset, Are Magnus; Thurmond, A. K.

doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2012.03.015

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“…The Shapefiles can be used directly with GIS platforms including ArcGIS, QGIS, GRASS, GeoMapApp, and many others. GPlates is also backward compatible with the PLATES formats (Gahagan, ), including the rotation parameters (ROT) and the present‐day geometry files (DAT), while the Shapefile geometries and rotations can be imported for use in the proprietary 4DPlates software (Clark et al, ), as well as the commercial PaleoGIS module for ArcGIS. Although many users generate cartographic material using interactive GIS platforms, GPlates is interoperable with the open source GMT (Wessel & Smith, , ), which can be used to visualize present‐day and reconstructed vector (load/save OGR gmt and export GMT xy) and raster (NetCDF GRD/NC) data.…”

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GPlates: Building a Virtual Earth Through Deep Time

Müller

Cannon

Qin

et al. 2018

Geochem Geophys Geosyst

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GPlates is an open‐source, cross‐platform plate tectonic geographic information system, enabling the interactive manipulation of plate‐tectonic reconstructions and the visualization of geodata through geological time. GPlates allows the building of topological plate models representing the mosaic of evolving plate boundary networks through time, useful for computing plate velocity fields as surface boundary conditions for mantle convection models and for investigating physical and chemical exchanges of material between the surface and the deep Earth along tectonic plate boundaries. The ability of GPlates to visualize subsurface 3‐D scalar fields together with traditional geological surface data enables researchers to analyze their relationships through geological time in a common plate tectonic reference frame. To achieve this, a hierarchical cube map framework is used for rendering reconstructed surface raster data to support the rendering of subsurface 3‐D scalar fields using graphics‐hardware‐accelerated ray‐tracing techniques. GPlates enables the construction of plate deformation zones—regions combining extension, compression, and shearing that accommodate the relative motion between rigid blocks. Users can explore how strain rates, stretching/shortening factors, and crustal thickness evolve through space and time and interactively update the kinematics associated with deformation. Where data sets described by geometries (points, lines, or polygons) fall within deformation regions, the deformation can be applied to these geometries. Together, these tools allow users to build virtual Earth models that quantitatively describe continental assembly, fragmentation and dispersal and are interoperable with many other mapping and modeling tools, enabling applications in tectonics, geodynamics, basin evolution, orogenesis, deep Earth resource exploration, paleobiology, paleoceanography, and paleoclimate.

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Section: Gplates Interoperabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

GPlates: Building a Virtual Earth Through Deep Time

Müller

Cannon

Qin

et al. 2018

Geochem Geophys Geosyst

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“…Besides the applications described above, several other GE based applications also have been developed including ATDD [14], GESO [15], Vis-EROS [16], ARMAP [17] and 4DPlates [18]. All of those applications either use GE to acquire specific kinds of data and then visualize the data in GE or import their own data sets into GE and display them.…”

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3D geological modeling and visualization of rock masses based on Google Earth: A case study

Mei

Tipper

2013

2013 5th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology

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Google Earth (GE) has become a powerful tool for geological modeling and visualization. An interesting and useful feature of GE, Google Street View, can allow the GE users to view geological structure such as layers of rock masses at a field site. In this paper, we introduce a practical solution for building 3D geological models for rock masses based on the data acquired by use with GE. A real study case at Haut-Barr, France is presented to demonstrate our solution. We first locate the position of Haut-Barr in GE, and then determine the shape and scale of the rock masses in the study area, and thirdly acquire the layout of layers of rock masses in the Google Street View, and finally create the approximate 3D geological models by extruding and intersecting. The generated 3D geological models can simply reflect the basic structure of the rock masses at Haut-Barr, and can be used for visualizing the rock bodies interactively.

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