[GPlates-discuss] reconstructing symbol file in a topology

[John Cannon]

Hi Douwe,

This issue has just been fixed, but unfortunately too late for the public 2.0 release. We may decide to have a bug-fix release though, but not sure as this stage.

So currently (in 2.0) you can use a symbol file when 'not' reconstructing using topologies. However as soon as you select 'yes' for 'reconstruct using topologies' then the symbol disappears.


Just to note for others reading this, a couple other bugs that have been fixed since 2.0 are:
(1) setting the 'oldest age' to 0Ma, when using topologies to reconstruct, causes the 'youngest age' to be -1Ma (which causes GPlates to abort),
(2) when visualising deformation strain accumulation, only integer values of the strain accumulation scale will work properly.


Also note that, as mentioned in the release announcement, GPlates 2.0 supports NetCDF-3 (but not NetCDF-4). To convert to NetCDF-3 you can use the 'nccopy' executable (that comes with NetCDF). For example, "nccopy -k 1 netcdf_4.nc netcdf_3.nc". This affects importing rasters and 3D scalar fields into GPlates.


Regards,
John

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Subject: [GPlates-discuss] reconstructing symbol file in a topology

Dear all,

Using GPlates 2.0, I try to connect a symbol file (representing e.g., volcanoes, sedimentary sections, ore deposits, thermochron data, etc.) to a deforming topology representing the deforming mesh of a retrodeformed orogen, so that I can reconstruct the symbol into its position at the time of formation. I can’t seem to connect my symbols to the topology, however. Did any of you succeed in an exercise like this?

All the best,

Douwe


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