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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-4-W13-2025-111-2025</article-id>
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<article-title>Comparing 545 Million Years of Sea-Level Change: New Insights from the TopoChronia QGIS Plugin</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Franziskakis</surname>
<given-names>Florian</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6855-0269</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Vérard</surname>
<given-names>Christian</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9560-6969</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Castelltort</surname>
<given-names>Sébastien</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6405-4038</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Giuliani</surname>
<given-names>Grégory</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Boulevard Carl-Vogt 66, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva, Rue des Maraîchers 13, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>11</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2025</year>
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<volume>XLVIII-4/W13-2025</volume>
<fpage>111</fpage>
<lpage>118</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2025 Florian Franziskakis et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2025</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access">
<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Palaeogeography is the study of the geography in the geological past, focusing on reconstructing the position of continents, oceans and mountain ranges over millions of years, helping scientists to understand past climates, the evolution of life and quantify sea-level variations. Plate tectonic models are essential for reconstructing palaeogeography, as they provide information about the position and age of geological features controlling the topography. The PANALESIS model, for instance, can be used to create fully quantified palaeogeographic reconstructions and sea-level variations estimates. However, the data and code used to produce previous results using PANALESIS were never published, were dependent on proprietary software, and can no longer be run due to software obsolescence, making them impossible to reproduce. To address this, we have entirely rewritten and enhanced the source code into a QGIS plugin named &lt;code&gt;TopoChronia&lt;/code&gt;. In this paper, we present sea-level curves derived from the new palaeogeographic maps over the Phanerozoic, and compare them with the original PANALESIS sea-level curve as well as other data obtained with sequential stratigraphic studies. We discuss possible causes explaining differences in results. The &lt;code&gt;TopoChronia&lt;/code&gt; plugin is available at &lt;code&gt;https://github.com/florianfranz/topo_chronia&lt;/code&gt;</p>
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