Fraters, Menno R. T., Billen, Magali I., Gassmöller, Rene, Saxena, Arushi, Heister, Timo, Li, Haoyuan, Douglas, Daniel, Dannberg, Juliane, Bangerth, Wolfgang and Wang, Yijun (2024) The Geodynamic World Builder: A planetary structure creator for the geosciences. Journal of Open Source Software, 9 (101). Art.Nr. 6671. DOI 10.21105/joss.06671.

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Abstract

Many Earth science applications require the discretization, parameterization, and/or visual-
ization of complex geological features in a 3D geometry in global or regional settings. A
prime example are geodynamic models that have to make assumptions about the Earth’s
thermal and chemical structure and the geometry of different features such as plates, subducted
slabs, or mantle plumes. This structure is needed in instantaneous models, as model initial
conditions, or to test different hypotheses and compare model predictions to observations.
Other examples are the creation of an Earth velocity structure for seismic forward modeling
and hypothesis-testing, or the visualization of tectonic features in structural geology.
The Geodynamic World Builder (GWB) has been designed to make the creation of complex
parameterized models significantly easier. It can also be used to design simple synthetic models
and it supports the use of several types of datasets to set up models. Besides setting up initial
conditions for geodynamic models, the GWB can also visualize complex 3D geologic, tectonic,
and geodynamic settings.

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