Welcome to PecubeGUI’s documentation!

PecubeGUI is a graphical user interface for Pecube designed to help the Pecube’s users to provide their input parameters. PecubeGUI also offers extended options enabling to check the input topography, fault geometry, and geotherm. Latest diffusion kinetic models for apatite and zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronometry are also included.

Finally, PecubeGUI is specifically designed to plot model predictions coming from Pecube’s output files (see documentation).

PecubeGUI is distributed under a GNU license that allows anyone to make modifications and share, as long as the distribution has the same license. However, for the sake of having an official and single version, if you provide any changes and wish to distribute your version, please contact us so that we can integrate your changes in the official version.

contact: maxime.bernard@unil.ch

Check out the Install PecubeGUI to go through the installation process, and the Introduction section for a quick overview of the interface.

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PecubeGUI-beta is now avalaible ! Get it now here: Install PecubeGUI

Contents

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• Install PecubeGUI
  • Get PecubeGUI
  • MacOS
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • How to cite
• Introduction
• Quick use of PecubeGUI
  • Create a new Pecube project
  • Provide input parameters
    • Topography tab
    • Time evolution tab
    • Thermal tab
    • Tectonic tab
    • Data tab
  • Run a Pecube model
• Extended usage
  • Create a new Pecube project
  • Provide input parameters
    • Topography tab
    • Time evolution tab
    • Thermal tab
    • Data tab
      • Apatite (U-Th)/He (AHe)
      • Apatite 4He/3He thermochronometry
      • Apatite fission track (AFT)
      • Zircon (U-Th)/He (ZHe)
      • Zircon fission track (ZFT)
      • Ar-Ar systems (BAr, KAr, MAr, HAr)
    • Tectonic tab
    • Inversion tab
  • Run a Pecube model
  • Plotting results
    • Plot 1D data
    • Visualize 3D models
    • References
• Video tutorials
  • Introduction to PecubeGUI
• Examples
  • Synthetic example:
    • The effect of relief changes on the age-elevation relationship and apparent exhumation rates (AER)
• Extra information
  • Input parameters for Pecube
    • Sample_setting.txt
• Active developments
  • PecubeGUI
    • Installation
    • NAB Pecube Python
  • Pecube
    • Trapped-charge predictions
    • IGM-Pecube coupling

Provide suggestions

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If you have any suggestion to improve the use of PecubeGUI, please you are very welcome ! Simply pull a request here: https://github.com/MBernAca/PecubeGUI_Doc/pulls

Bug report

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If you face a bug or a PecubeGUI crash, please feel free to report it here: https://github.com/MBernAca/PecubeGUI_Doc/issues

Acknowledgment

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The first version of PecubeGUI has been developed at the University of Potsdam within the COOLER ERC project led by Peter van der Beek.

How to cite

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If you use PecubeGUI for your research please cite: M. Bernard, P. van der Beek, J. Braun, X. Robert, C. Colleps, K. Gallagher, W. Guenthner, J. Amalberti, & I. Wapenhans. (2023). PecubeGUI-beta. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8362721