List of Important Tools
SubMachine: Web-based tools for the interactive visualisation
SubMachine is a collection of web-based tools for the interactive visualisation, analysis, and quantitative comparison of global-scale, volumetric (3-D) data sets of the subsurface, with supporting tools for interacting with other, complementary models and data sets.
This visualisation tool is self-explanatory and well instructed on their website.
GPlates: Desktop software for the interactive visualisation of plate-tectonics
GPlates
offers a novel combination of interactive plate-tectonic reconstructions,
geographic information system (GIS) functionality and raster data visualisation.
GPlates enables both the visualisation and the manipulation of plate-tectonic
reconstructions and associated data through geological time.
A very well documented instruction to running GPlates can be found
here.
Primarily the software can be used for tectonic reconstructions, however,
quite handy for plotting 3-D images of earth in a spherical cell.
Paraview
ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application. ParaView users can quickly build visualizations to analyze their data using qualitative and quantitative techniques. The data exploration can be done interactively in 3D or programmatically using ParaView's batch processing capabilities.
Generic Mapping Tool: An open-source, code based geophysical map plotting tool
GMT
is an open-source, code based visualisation tool for geophysical data.
The updated version of GMT 5 and 6 are now available.
For beginners, it could be difficult to install GMT in their machine. Linux (Ububtu)
is the recommended OS to work. I will update the installation process for GMT soon.
I have some basic GMT resources
for students who are new in coding and are getting lost in huge repository of the GMT website.
Check out some GMT instructions here
The Atlas of the underworld
The Atlas of the underworld
is the first complete mapping of subducted plates in the Earth's mantle and their geological interpretation.
This website covers the structure of Earth's entire mantle and its plate tectonic evolution of the last 300 million years. Every geological record is under active study by the geological community, and undoubtedly improvements can be made on the geological interpretations or the tomographic imaging and interpretation of the slabs. Therefore, we provide a 'post-publication peer review' system through a forum below every slab where you can leave references to new published information and its implication or alternative geological interpretations. We would appreciate if this forum would be used for geoscientific debate only.