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23rd May 2009, 06:08 PM #1
A frustrating experience with Google Earth
Earlier today, when the planets and the stars were correctly aligned, I managed, by some serendipitous sequence of keystrokes, to get Google Earth 5.0 to display on the globe all the important features of plate tectonics - the plate names and boundaries, the subduction and spreading zones, and the sites of earthquakes and volcanoes. As a retired geologist, I was delighted that all this information was now available, but, after I closed that session of Google Earth, I found that I couldn't find the find the Plate Tectonics layer again.
After spending an hour in fruitless searching, I decided to try drawing on the collective wisdom and experience of the Forum. How do you get Google Earth to display plate-tectonic features?
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23rd May 2009, 06:38 PM #2
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Not sure if this helps but there is a plugin for plate tectonics - assuming you're running Windows or MacOS.
Geoff
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23rd May 2009, 08:10 PM #3
Well, I instaled the plug-in. But what then? how do I get it to run? And surely it must be there already, since i saw it working this morning.
Frustratedly,
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23rd May 2009, 11:44 PM #4
Is the url you were using for Google Earth in your browser history?
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24th May 2009, 07:19 AM #5
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24th May 2009, 07:34 AM #6
David,
I piddled around with it today and can't find the tectonics stuff. Sorry. No, you are right, it DOES NOT run through the browser.Cheers,
Bob
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24th May 2009, 10:03 AM #7David, welcome to the word of insanity.
I found your tectonic plates . . .after updating google earth and screaming in frustration I type in "tectonic plates" into the search function and found a "plates kml" Diffuse is the name and it appeared as "J" in my search.
Hope this helps.
Pat
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24th May 2009, 10:27 AM #8
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I entered 'tectonic plates' into the search box , and got a list of locations .
'J' was one , a plate in Africa . I clicked it and am now looking at a green blur
Is there another search box for google earth somewhere ?
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24th May 2009, 10:32 AM #9
Try page 3
Pat
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24th May 2009, 10:57 AM #10
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24th May 2009, 11:13 AM #11
Success! The plugin I needed is accessible by clicking on the 'Plate Tectonics' link in the second paragraph in this blog: http://ron.outcrop.org/blog/?p=323
Doing this opens Google Earth with the plate-tectonics layer in place; to save it, you simply move it from 'My temporary places' to 'My places'.
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24th May 2009, 12:13 PM #12
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31st May 2009, 12:19 PM #13
Bugger Plate Tectonics.....I want a Geosyncinal Theory plug in for my Google earth. A flat earth plug in would also be handy
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31st May 2009, 07:02 PM #14
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