# How to make non-plate tectonics in GPlates

**URL:** https://discourse.gplates.org/t/how-to-make-non-plate-tectonics-in-gplates/977
**Category:** Worldbuilding
**Created:** [28 September 2024 12:06 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/how-to-make-non-plate-tectonics-in-gplates/977 "2024-09-28T12:06:20Z")
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### Author: ![Enderlook](https://discourse.gplates.org/user_avatar/discourse.gplates.org/enderlook/32/503_2.png) [@Enderlook](https://discourse.gplates.org/u/Enderlook)
#### Post date: [28 September 2024 12:06 UTC](https://discourse.gplates.org/t/how-to-make-non-plate-tectonics-in-gplates/977/1 "2024-09-28T12:06:20Z")

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I know GPlates is designed to show plate tectonics, but has someone tried to show any tectonics instead? I wanted to simulate the entire history of a planet, which includes Heat Pipe Tectonics and maybe Drip-and-Plume (as described in [Worldbuilding Pasta](https://worldbuildingpasta.blogspot.com/2020/01/an-apple-pie-from-scratch-part-vb.html), neither of them are actual tectonics plates.

How can I do that in GPlates? I mean, GPlates allow the creation of several feature types on a planet, which ones are the ones I had to use for such a project?

I’m lost honestly. I never used GPlates nor know much about geology, but I plan on making a very detailed speculative evolution world, and for such a project, I wanted to include early planetary geology.

Anyone have experience about this subject?

Thanks