[GPlates-discuss] How to check the min and max velocities in GPlates?

[Christian.Heine at shell.com]

Hi Nan,

one simple way you could achive this is to dump the velocity files out (Reconstructions -> Export -> Add export -> Velocities), chose GMT (*.xy) as output and then batch process the output files with GMT's "gmt gmtinfo" (formerly minmax). This should leave you with a min/max for each reconstruction time step for the global files (ie NOT per plate). 

Haven't read Sabin's paper to the level of detail on whether they provide a cook book recipe/workflow using GPlates, so there might be a better/more detailed explanation in the paper/blog entry.

Cheers,
Christian


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> discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au] On Behalf Of Nan Zhang
> Sent: Wednesday, 27 January 2016 9:14 AM
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> Subject: [GPlates-discuss] How to check the min and max velocities in
> GPlates?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> 
> I loaded Seton et al., 2012 data to generate some plate velocity files
> from 200Ma to the present day. One thing I want to check is the minimum
> and maximum velocity magnitudes. Who can give me some instruction?
> 
> 
> 
> Bests,
> 
> Nan