Deconstructing Plate Tectonic Reconstructions

This repository contains code to reproduce figures and animations associated with the manuscript Deconstructing plate tectonic reconstructions, authors Seton, Williams, Domeier, Collins & Sigloch, to appear in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Citation

@article{Seton++2023DeconstructingPlateTectonicReconstructions,
  author  = {Maria Seton and Simon Williams and Mathew Domeier and Alan Collins and Karin Sigloch},
  title   = {Deconstructing Plate Tectonic Reconstructions},
  journal = {Nature Reviews Earth and Environment},
  year    = {2023},
  volume  = {},
  number  = {},
  pages   = {},
  doi     = {TBA},
}

Requirements

• all code is based on python3, and run through jupyter notebooks.
• Most python dependencies are installable via conda or pip; additional requirements pygplates, PlateTectonicsTools and GPlatesReconstructionModel must currently be configured separately - follow the links for instructions.
• The code relies on a wide range of independently compiled data sources and plate tectonic reconstructions. Many of these data sources are automatically downloaded and saved to a local cache when the code is run for the first time. Other data are contained and described in the Data folder.

Notes

• The illustrations in the paper were created using either GPlates or through python code. This repository contains the code for the latter of these groups.
• The code is organised into folders corresponding to each figure.
• Figures produced by this code will be similar to, but not identical to, the figures in the paper due to formatting changes made by the publishers.