academic/gplates: Added (plate tectonics program).

Signed-off-by: Andrew Clemons <andrew.clemons@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>

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+GPlates is free and open source desktop software for the interactive
+visualisation of plate tectonics for research, educational,
+professional, and other purposes. It is developed by an international
+team of researchers and software developers who refer to internal
+divisions of the University of Sidney and Caltech (California
+Institute of Technology).
+
+GPlates offers a novel combination of interactive plate tectonic
+reconstructions, geographic information system (GIS) functionality and
+raster data visualisation. GPlates enables both the visualisation and
+the manipulation of plate tectonic reconstructions and associated data
+through geological time.
+GPlates can be used to handle and visualise data in a variety of
+geometries and formats, including raster data, to link plate kinematics
+to geodynamic models, to serve as an interactive client in a
+grid-computing network, to facilitate the production of high-quality
+paleo-geographic maps.
+
+GPlates requires in runtime pre-packed datasets provided by the project
+or other datasets. By default, this slackbuild does not install any 
+dataset, since the download of project's data source is allowed only by
+using a web browser. Standard procedure compliant with curl or wget is
+not allowed.
+
+If you want to install the data source using this slackbuild follow the
+download instructions reported in README.SBo file and save the archive
+gplates_2.3.0_geodata.zip in the same directory of the slackbuild
+script. The slackbuild autodetect this archive and if found will
+include the datasets in the installation package. Datasets will be
+installed in the directory /usr/share/gplates/GeoData
+
+Alternative datasets are not handled by this slackbuild. If you want
+to use other datasets you have to add them in local or shared
+directories and apply them using the tools of the application GUI.
+
+CGAL library is a required dependency, but the build can also use the
+alternative header-only library CGAL5 if installed in your system.
+
+Published works powered with GPlates should include the following
+citation:
+
+Müller, R. D., Cannon, J., Qin, X., Watson, R. J., Gurnis, M., 
+Williams, S., et al. 2018. GPlates: Building a virtual Earth through
+deep time. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19. 
+doi:10.1029/2018GC007584.