🚀 pyBacktrack 1.5 is now released! The new release makes pyBacktrack easier to install and expands its capabilities for backtracking, backstripping, paleobathymetry reconstruction, dynamic topography, sea-level modelling, and drill-site reconstructions. Users can now install pyBacktrack using: pip install pybacktrack conda install pybacktrack docker pull earthbyte/pybacktrack What’s new in pyBacktrack 1.5? The release adds conda installation … Read more…
We end 2023 with the release of GPlately1.3, with a number of bugfixes and improvements. The cool functionality of GPlately includes generating gridded oceanic crustal ages and seafloor spreading rates from plate models with evolving plate boundaries – see example below using a plate model in a mantle reference frame. Happy holidays from the EarthByte … Read more…
When floodwaters recede, where do they go? By Loren Smith University of Sydney researchers have modelled water-storing aquifers that perform a natural balancing act: they absorb water during floods and supply water during drought. Yet human intervention is limiting their function. University of Sydney researchers have identified a groundwater ‘superhighway’ along Australia’s east coast. Stretching from … Read more…
John Cannon outlines the roadmap for implementing new functionality and features of our plate tectonic software in a talk at #AuScope2021 https://lnkd.in/gxa-hNwX