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

[Christian.Heine at shell.com]

Nan,

in GPlates: Go to Utilities -> Kinematics tool (or CTRL+k). This is the only place in the GUI where you can directly look at/query velocity information. However, that tool only allows you to use a single feature. If you want to do this for more features and in a more extensive way, you'd have to use the data mining capabilities and Python to code up workflows yourself (or even extend this using the Qt interface to build a GUI widget).

The way Bruce and I suggested earlier will allow you to do a batch analysis of velocity data outside of GPlates. I'd say this is probably the fastest and easiest option to get this done. In case that doesn't answer your questions you maybe have to explain in more detail of what you are trying to achieve.

Christian (not Christina ;-)



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> discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au] On Behalf Of Nan Zhang
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> GPlates?
> 
> Hi Sabin, I read through your paper. It is a good paper, while it does
> address my issue. My question is how to find a tool in GPlates interface,
> to do a statistics for the loaded velocity field (the max, min, and mean
> velocity magnitude). Besides Christina's suggestion early on, is there a
> direct tool in GPlates?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Hi Nan,
> 
> Please check this paper that talks about all of these things:
> http://www.earthbyte.org/tectonic-speed-limits-from-plate-kinematic-
> reconstructions/
>  <http://www.earthbyte.org/tectonic-speed-limits-from-plate-kinematic-
> reconstructions>
> Tectonic speed limits from plate kinematic reconstructions ...
> <http://www.earthbyte.org/tectonic-speed-limits-from-plate-kinematic-
> reconstructions>
> www.earthbyte.org
> Citation Zahirovic, S., Müller, R. D., Seton, M., & Flament, N. (2015).
> Tectonic speed limits from plate kinematic reconstructions. Earth and
> Planetary Science ...
> 
> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X15001235
> 
> Hope that helps!
> 
> Cheers,
> Sabin
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> Subject: [GPlates-discuss] How to check the min and max velocities in
> GPlates?
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> 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