[GPlates-discuss] Using the Pesonen 2012 reconstructions in Gplates

[Eglington, Bruce]

Hi Sanjoy
  I asked Lauri about his model and he does not have any GPlates compatible files. Since you don’t have any experience with GPlates, I suggest that you work through relevant parts of the GPlates manual with the test data set provided during installation, then get a copy from the EarthByte site of Andrew Merdith’s model and experiment with that. Most of Andrew’s polygons will probably work with Lauri’s rotation parameters so you can try to generate a rotation file using an ASCII editor for Lauri’s values based on the layout of andrew’s.ROT file. It is all quite easy once you have an example to work with.

Cheers
   Bruce

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From: GPlates-discuss [mailto:gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au] On Behalf Of Sanjoy Som
Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2017 19:11
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Subject: Re: [GPlates-discuss] Using the Pesonen 2012 reconstructions in Gplates

Hi Bruce,

  Have you copied the rotation parameters into an ASCII rotation file and do you have the polygons for the various blocks either as a shapefile or as a gpml file? If not, let me know and I can ask Laurie Pesonen tomorrow if he has them both in a format for use with GPlates. If not, the blocks are essentially the same as used by Sergei Pisarevsky in various models and I can provide one of those.

​I do not have access to polygon files, nor am I familiar with the ASCII rotation files. I'm very new to this :) ​

Thanks so much for your help. Will you be a GSA in a few weeks? I would owe you a beer.

Best,
Sanjoy


Bruce Eglington (Ph.D.)
Murray Pyke Chair
Geological Sciences
University of Saskatchewan
114 Science Place
Saskatoon
SK
S7N 5E2
Canada

bruce.eglington at usask.ca<mailto:bruce.eglington at usask.ca>
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From: GPlates-discuss [mailto:gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au<mailto:gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au>] On Behalf Of Sanjoy Som
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Subject: Re: [GPlates-discuss] Using the Pesonen 2012 reconstructions in Gplates

Hi Bruce,

Thanks so much for taking the time to reply. It's that first step that I'm struggling with. How to import the Pesonen data to Gplates?

Best,
Sanjoy

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 4:11 PM, Eglington, Bruce <bruce.eglington at usask.ca<mailto:bruce.eglington at usask.ca>> wrote:
Hi
  You will need to run the model in GPlates, then export the modelled reconstruction for your selected age to a shapefile, take it in to ArcMap and reproject to a Gall-Peters projection. Before you go too far, make sure that your version of ArcGIS provides the Gall-Peters projection as it is licensed and may not be available.

Bruce


Bruce Eglington (Ph.D.)
Murray Pyke Chair
Geological Sciences
University of Saskatchewan
114 Science Place
Saskatoon
SK
S7N 5E2
Canada

bruce.eglington at usask.ca<mailto:bruce.eglington at usask.ca>
+1-306-966-5732<tel:(306)%20966-5732>

From: GPlates-discuss [mailto:gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au<mailto:gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au>] On Behalf Of Sanjoy Som
Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 17:10
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Subject: [GPlates-discuss] Using the Pesonen 2012 reconstructions in Gplates

Dear Gplates users,

I am new to this discussion forum and to the use of the Gplates software.

I am a Precambrian geologist and would value using the Pesonen et al. (2012 - Geophysica) reconstructions:

https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/xMnXB1UlDmODUD?domain=scholar.google.com.au

for my own research. I was hoping to get some insight from this group on how to do so. My goal is to reproject Lauri's work in Gall projection. John Cannon recommended I contact this list.

Thank you for insights,

Best,
Sanjoy

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