GPlates is desktop software for the interactive visualisation of plate tectonics.
GPlates offers a novel combination of interactive plate tectonic reconstructions, geographic information system (GIS) functionality and raster data visualisation. GPlates enables both the visualisation and the manipulation of plate tectonic reconstructions and associated data through geological time. GPlates runs on Windows, Linux and macOS. GPlates has an online user manual.
GPlates and pyGPlates are both free software (also known as open-source software), licensed for distribution under the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2.
GPlately is a Python package which enables the reconstruction of data through deep geological time (points, lines, polygons, and rasters), the interrogation of plate kinematic information (plate velocities, rates of subduction and seafloor spreading), the rapid comparison between multiple plate motion models, and the plotting of reconstructed output data on maps.
Open source and free
Easy to use
Fast and reliable
Extensive open-access data and models
Wide-ranging interoperability with other software
Used by educators, researchers, and industries
Professional software development team
GPlates Citation:
Müller, R. D., Cannon, J., Qin, X., Watson, R. J., Gurnis, M., Williams, S., Pfaffelmoser, T., Seton, M., Russell, S. H. J. ,Zahirovic S. (2018). GPlates: Building a virtual Earth through deep time. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19, 2243-2261. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC007584
PyGPlates, PlateTectonicTools, GPlately Citation:
Mather, B. R., Müller, R. D., Zahirovic, S., Cannon, J., Chin, M., Ilano, L., Wright, N. M., Alfonso, C., Williams, S., Tetley, M., Merdith, A. (2023) Deep time spatio-temporal data analysis using pyGPlates with PlateTectonicTools and GPlately. Geoscience Data Journal, 00, 1-8. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.185
The GPlates Python library (pyGPlates) enables access to GPlates functionality via the Python programming language.
PyGPlates
The GPlates Web Portal is a gateway to a series of web pages for the interactive visualisation of cutting-edge geoscience datasets.
GPlates Web Portal
The GPlates Web Service interface allows users to access plate tectonics reconstruction services via Internet.
GPlates Web Service
Who are we?
Funded by AuScope
Latest News
December 08, 2023
A note about GPlates 2.4:-
This release contains mostly bug fixes (compared to GPlates 2.3). We’ve also added some Scientific Colour Maps by Fabio Crameri to our builtin colour palettes.
However, most new functionality is still in development and will go into the GPlates 3.0 release (late 2024). This is because it depends on the graphics engine upgrade currently in progress (that enables the use of relatively modern hardware in last ten years on all desktop platforms with the replacement of OpenGL with Vulkan). Dependent functionality includes generalized symbology
Eureka Prize finalist announcement and new home for source code
Adds tectonic subsidence.
Adds tectonic subsidence.
We are very excited to announce the launch of the new GPlates website.
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