GPlates Deconstructions

Mantle

Mantle

Cut the globe open and look inside.

Globe viewerUndergraduateOutreach
Paleoclimate

Paleoclimate

Temperature, rain and wind on a world that keeps changing shape.

Globe viewerSenior secondaryUndergraduate
Valdes / BRIDGE

Valdes / BRIDGE

A coupled run with an ocean you can descend through.

Globe viewerSenior secondaryUndergraduate
Old Map

Old Map

A reconstruction drawn as an aged engraved chart.

Globe viewerSenior secondaryOutreachnot deployed
Paleobiology

Paleobiology

Fossils put back where they were collected from.

Globe viewerSenior secondaryUndergraduateOutreachnot deployed
Plate Tree

Plate Tree

The hierarchy of rotations a reconstruction is built from.

Globe viewerSenior secondaryUndergraduateOutreach
Tropical sutures

Tropical sutures

Every version of the same curve, drawn at once.

Interactive mapSenior secondaryUndergraduateprototype
Paleomagnetic Poles

Paleomagnetic Poles

The measurements a reconstruction has to agree with.

Globe viewerUndergraduateOutreach
Pangea

Pangea

Move the continents yourself, and see what rotations it took.

Globe viewerSenior secondaryUndergraduateOutreachprototype
Deep Mantle Upwelling

Deep Mantle Upwelling

Where large igneous provinces and kimberlites erupted, against the LLSVPs.

Globe viewerSenior secondaryUndergraduateprototype
Igneous zircons

Igneous zircons

14,000 dated crystals, back where they crystallised.

Interactive mapSenior secondaryUndergraduatenot deployed
Detrital zircons

Detrital zircons

One pie per sample, each wedge a story about where the sand came from.

Interactive mapSenior secondaryUndergraduatenot deployed
Southeast Tasmania

Southeast Tasmania

Gondwana to dolerite, at Port Arthur and Eaglehawk Neck.

Scroll-driven storySenior secondaryUndergraduateOutreach
Marine survey globe

Marine survey globe

Forty years of ships crossing the ocean, one year at a time.

Globe viewerSenior secondaryUndergraduateOutreach
HistMag

HistMag

Ships, compasses and the geomagnetic field, 1500 to 1930.

Interactive mapSenior secondaryUndergraduateOutreachnot deployedwork in progress

Nothing at that level yet.