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Search for g.plates here at the guild and on your favorite search engine. You should get a world of information and suggestions for resources on plate tectonics.
Hey, I see that you've done some plate tectonics based mapping. I'm looking to get into that, but am having a hard time figuring out (a) what software works for that, and (b) how to generate a starting set of plates. Do you have any suggestions?? Thanks in advance!!