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 Welcome to `Underworld3`, a mathematically self-describing, finite-element code for geodynamic modelling. This quick-start guide has basic installation instructions and a brief introduction to some of the concepts in the `Underworld3` code.
 
 All `Underworld3` source code is released under the LGPL-3 open source licence. This covers all files in `underworld3` constituting the Underworld3 Python module. Notebooks, stand-alone documentation and Python scripts which show how the code is used and run are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.