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Look through the GPlates section of the manual.

U   trunk/aspect/doc/manual/manual.tex
U   trunk/aspect/doc/manual.pdf
U   trunk/aspect/include/aspect/velocity_boundary_conditions/gplates.h
U   trunk/aspect/source/velocity_boundary_conditions/gplates.cc


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 \label{sec:cookbooks-gplates}
 	extit{This section was contributed by Ren{\'e} Ga{\ss}m{\"o}ller}
 
-In a number of model setups one may want to include a surface velocity boundary condition that prescribes the velocity according to a specific geologic reconstruction. The purpose of this kind of models is often to test a proposed geologic model and compare characteristic convection results to present-day observables in order to gain information about the initially assumed geologic input. In this cookbook we present spect{}'s interface to the  widely used plate reconstruction software GPlates, and the steps to go from a geologic plate reconstruction to a geodynamic model incorporating this velocities as boundary condition.
+In a number of model setups one may want to include a surface velocity boundary
+condition that prescribes the velocity according to a specific geologic
+reconstruction. The purpose of this kind of models is often to test a proposed
+geologic model and compare characteristic convection results to present-day
+observables in order to gain information about the initially assumed geologic
+input. In this cookbook we present spect{}'s interface to the  widely used
+plate reconstruction software GPlates, and the steps to go from a geologic plate
+reconstruction to a geodynamic model incorporating these velocities as boundary
+condition.
 
-\paragraph{Acquiring plate reconstruction.}
+\paragraph{Acquiring a plate reconstruction.}
 
-The plate reconstruction that is used in this cookbook is included in spect{}'s data folders. For a new model setup however, the user eventually needs to create their own data files, therefore we will shortly discuss the process of acquiring a usable plate reconstruction and transferring it into a format usable by ASPECT.
-Both the necessary software and data are provided by the GPlates project. GPlates is an open-source software for interactive visualization of plate tectonics. It is developed by the EarthByte Project in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney, the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences (GPS) at CalTech and the Center for Geodynamics at the Norwegian Geological Survey (NGU). For extensive documentation and support we refer to the GPlates website (\url{http://www.gplates.org}). Apart from the software one needs the actual plate reconstruction that consists of closed polygons covering the complete model domain. For our case we will use the provided data by