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+### Whats the purpose of this PR?
+- [ ] Bug fix
+- [ ] New feature
+- [ ] Documentation update
+- [ ] Other, please explain
+
+**Describe it in more detail below:**
+
+
+**Checklist**
+- [ ] The PR title is descriptive and starts with the appropriate tag: `[BUGFIX]`, `[ADDITION]`, `[DOC]`, etc.
+- [ ] New tests (either assessing the correct behaviour of new internal functions or the correctness of a tutorial) were added, or old tests were updated
+- [ ] Affected tutorials have also been updated
+- [ ] The new feature was added in a way that does not break public API
+- [ ] New documentation related to the new feature was added
+- [ ] The new code follows the [contributor guidelines](https://github.com/JuliaGeodynamics/GeophysicalModelGenerator.jl/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md), in particular the [Runic Style](https://github.com/fredrikekre/Runic.jl)