GPlately × pyGMT Tutorial Suite — Companion Data Archive

This archive contains the external (not git-bundled) datasets used by the GPlately × pyGMT tutorial suite — 80 Jupyter notebooks demonstrating deep-time plate reconstruction, paleogeography, paleoclimate, and thermochronology workflows built on GPlately and PyGMT. How to use this archive. Download and extract each zip you need into a zenodo_data/ folder at the root of the tutorial-suite repository (a sibling of Notebooks/ and data/), e.g. zenodo_data/gmcm9_dynamic_topography_Braz/. Every notebook that depends on one of these datasets looks there by default, with a ZENODO_<NAME>_DIR environment variable available to override the location. You do not need to download the whole archive — each notebook's own "Data availability" cell states exactly which dataset(s) it needs, and zenodo_data/README.md in the repository has the full reference table. Contents (15 datasets): zircon_geochronology_Wu2023 (T21–T24) — Wu et al. (2023) global zircon compilation (sedimentary/igneous/metamorphic) REVEAL_mantle_tomography (T27) — REVEAL global mantle tomography model, full-resolution 3-D grid paleoDEM_ScoteseWright2018 (T47, T67) — Scotese & Wright (2018) PaleoDEM grids, 1° resolution, full 0–540 Ma pySCION_biogeochemistry_model (T67) — minimal runnable subset of Mills & Gurung's pySCION Earth-evolution model dynamic_topography_Dhungana (T28–T30) — Dhungana & Flament dynamic-topography and mantle-temperature grids dynamic_topography_Young2022 (T31, T32, T51) — Young et al. (2022) dynamic-topography grids + M21 NNR rotation model gmcm9_dynamic_topography_Braz (T48, T50) — Braz et al. (2021) mantle-flow dynamic-topography grids paleo_elevation_Zhou (T46) — Zhou et al. geochemistry-corrected paleo-elevation compilation thermochronology_precomputed_cache_CentralAsia (T48–T50) — precomputed per-age cache tables, optional time-saver thermochronology_faults_Boone (T49) — Boone et al. (2025) fault + margin-polygon compilation (GEM Global Active Faults + AFEAD regional supplement as separate zip) thermochronology_geochronology_USGS_NorthAmerica (T51) — precomputed dynamic-topography cache ICONS_sedimentary_basins_Heine (T53–T55) — Heine (2007) ICONS sedimentary basins atlas sediment_thickness_BirdMooney (T53, T55) — Bird & Mooney (2026) GST-1 global sediment thickness crustal_thickness_Afonso (T53–T55) — Afonso et al. (2019) global crustal thickness Full per-dataset provenance, licensing notes, and exact notebook usage are documented in zenodo_data/README.md in the repository.