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    Hey Charerg, I'm having a problem with GPlates flowline function. No matter what I do my flowlines are showing up like the attached image. I've even done a complete reinstall of GPlates. Do you have any idea what I'm doing wrong?
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    Quote Originally Posted by shadixdarkkon View Post
    Hey Charerg, I'm having a problem with GPlates flowline function. No matter what I do my flowlines are showing up like the attached image. I've even done a complete reinstall of GPlates. Do you have any idea what I'm doing wrong?
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    Looks like one (or both) of the continents have a non-zero present day (0 Mya) rotation. Those tend to mess up the flowlines.

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    Ah, gotcha. So that makes it a bit harder to *start* with a supercontinent and work forward. Thank you though, I appreciate the help!

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    Quote Originally Posted by shadixdarkkon View Post
    Ah, gotcha. So that makes it a bit harder to *start* with a supercontinent and work forward. Thank you though, I appreciate the help!
    Not necessarily, you can kind of work around it. For example, treat 1.0 Mya as "present day" (in other words change your current 0 mya poles to be 1 mya instead), that way you can keep the 0 Mya reconstruction poles as zero.

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