# Achievements & Compliments

**URL:** https://discourse.gplates.org/c/achievements/11.md

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## [About the Achievements & Compliments category](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/about-the-achievements-compliments-category/27)

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**Author:** [@mchin](https://discourse.gplates.org/u/mchin)\
**Replies:** 0

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Things done successfully with effort, skill, or courage. And not forget to say somethings nice to encourage the team.

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## [Current progress on a plate deformation model of the Western US](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/current-progress-on-a-plate-deformation-model-of-the-western-us/3183)

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**Author:** [@granite-rhyolite](https://discourse.gplates.org/u/granite-rhyolite)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [1 January 2026 17:16 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/current-progress-on-a-plate-deformation-model-of-the-western-us/3183 "2026-01-01T17:16:59Z")

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Howdy, everyone! Ever since the beginning of last summer, I have been working on a detailed kinematic-palinspastic restoration of the North American Cordillera. My resolution for 2026 is to complete it before the end of…

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## [Video of Pangea rifing in Virginia](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/video-of-pangea-rifing-in-virginia/942)

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**Author:** [@cul-basin](https://discourse.gplates.org/u/cul-basin)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [2 August 2024 01:28 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/video-of-pangea-rifing-in-virginia/942 "2024-08-02T01:28:29Z")

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Novice hobbyist here with thanks to all who make and support GPlates and share information. Using GPlates, Christopher Scotese’s PaleoAtlas v.3, and USGS data, I made a short video about the rifting of Pangea that creat…

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## [Kinematic model of the Laramide orogeny](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/kinematic-model-of-the-laramide-orogeny/809)

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**Author:** [@granite-rhyolite](https://discourse.gplates.org/u/granite-rhyolite)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [26 December 2023 21:55 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/kinematic-model-of-the-laramide-orogeny/809 "2023-12-26T21:55:22Z")

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Hello world, I created a rigid block model of the thick-skinned foreland shortening that occurred in western North America in Late Cretaceous-Eocene time. This deformation episode is strangely absent from the latest def…

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## [Map.paleoenvironment.eu](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/map-paleoenvironment-eu/271)

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**Author:** [@t.j.m.vanderlinden](https://discourse.gplates.org/u/t.j.m.vanderlinden)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [25 February 2021 10:11 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/map-paleoenvironment-eu/271 "2021-02-25T10:11:02Z")

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We made a website that uses pyGPlates to reconstruct data. Data can be taken from our project database, the Paleobiology database or user input. It is plotted on an interactive map of a paleogeographic reconstruction o…

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## [Using GPlates to model constructed worlds](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/using-gplates-to-model-constructed-worlds/126)

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**Author:** [@Robbie](https://discourse.gplates.org/u/Robbie)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [16 May 2020 04:22 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/using-gplates-to-model-constructed-worlds/126 "2020-05-16T04:22:25Z")

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Hi all, You might be interested to find out that the worldbuilding community has been using GPlates to create more realistic maps of imaginary/fictional worlds. It’s a very niche hobby—possibly even more so than creatin…

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## [Thank you GPlates Team!](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/thank-you-gplates-team/37)

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**Author:** [@mchin](https://discourse.gplates.org/u/mchin)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [3 February 2020 00:53 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/thank-you-gplates-team/37 "2020-02-03T00:53:51Z")

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The team have done a fabulous job!! Good work! Well done! @michaelchin