There is so much great stuff within Gplates. Below is an interactive globe of seafloor spreading rates. Pinks and blues show 0-40 mm a year through to 200 mm a year for deep reds.
“The age of the ocean floor is one of the fundamental data sets for understanding plate tectonic processes. We have generated an updated present-day age grid of oceanic crust by incorporating recent improvements to the underlying plate motion model, magnetic anomaly identifications, and fracture zones. The resultant mean age of the ocean floor is ~64 million years, slightly older than previous studies. We also present data sets showing various seafloor spreading parameters such as spreading rate, asymmetry, direction, and obliquity. Slow and intermediate seafloor spreading rates produce the most stable spreading behavior in terms of asymmtery and obliquity. Our data sets and workflows are freely available and can be used for multidisciplinary scientific studies. Our maps are an effective visual tool to understand plate tectonic concepts and can be used for education and outreach.”
“GPlates is an open-source, cross-platform plate tectonic geographic information system, enabling the interactive manipulation of plate-tectonic reconstructions and the visualization of geo-data through geological time.”
GPlates development by the EarthByte Project is part of the AuScope infrastructure-development programme. AuScope Ltd is a non-profit company formed to facilitate the implementation of a world-class infrastructure system for earth science, funded by the Australian Government under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020GC009214
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