GPlates Web Service Python Client/Proxy

This Python package allows users to access GPlates Web Service more easily via simple Python programming interface.

Installation

pip install gwspy

How to use

The following Python code reconstructs three locations to 100Ma with Muller2019 reconstruction model.

  # pip install gwspy shapely
  import shapely
  from gwspy import PlateModel, reconstruct_shapely_points

  lats = [50, 10, 50]
  lons = [-100, 160, 100]
  points = [shapely.Point(x, y) for x, y in zip(lons, lats)]

  model = PlateModel("Muller2019")
  paleo_points = reconstruct_shapely_points(model, points, 100)
  print(paleo_points)

GPlates Web Service server

By default, https://gws.gplates.org is used. You can use .env file to specify your service URL. Alternertively, you can export GWS_URL=https://your-service-url in a terminal.

See env.template and setup GWS server with Docker.

Dependencies

• requests
• shapely

API reference

API reference can be found at https://michaelchin.github.io/gplates-python-proxy/.

Examples

👉 reconstruct_shapely_points.py

The red dots are present-day locations. The blue dots are paleo-locations at 100Ma.

👉 plot_subduction_zones.py

👉 plot_topological_plate_polygons.py

All Examples