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Great App
This is a great app even though it does not have the ice ages. It is a great idea to show time of day and oxygen+Carbon. Great for school.Ry_Guy$
Integrates multiple data sources
I've been using this app for awhile now to show museum visitors the relationship between continental movements and dinosaur evolution for the whole span of the Mesozoic.
It gets 5 stars from me because it does so much and there is nothing like it. But I'd like to see some enhancements that would make the app even more helpful for various earth science topics.
It would be useful to have alternative mappings that showed continental movement across the globe in one view, such as plate caree and Mollweide. Even better would be a set of globes positioned to show the earth from different vantage points, so that motion could be tracked across the planet while still retaining the advantages of a traditional globe. An alternative would be the ability to lock the camera onto a given current geopolitical "location" and then follow that place over time.
There have been complaints in the reviews about lack of detail for the Pleistocene ice episodes. I think that would be nice, but maybe better addressed in a separate app that allowed more zoom to examine the finer details available for study.
I'd like to see a layer for plate tectonics that labeled the plates, spreading zones, rifts, subduction, etc. There's a very curious flash of mid Pacific spreading in one frame from the Permian that stands alone. Is there data for this?
I very much hope this is app is in active development, or the team is designing complimentary apps. The approach of combining many data sets into one ensemble of visualizations is really breathtaking.Show lessiPensive
Great app for seeing the Earth's evolution but needs ice ages
As a geologist, this is the nicest app I have found to show the incredible changes our earth has gone through. Great for also seeing the changes in temperature, CO2 and life diversity in chart form as you slide though the ages. I use it primarily for non-geologist, but when working a new project will also pop it open to get an overview of an area over time.
The app has a heartbreaking flaw in not having the Pleistocene ice ages in it. These are the most dramatic geologic and climatic changes that most people will see and understand, often because they are actually standing where thousands of feet of ice were just a few thousand years go. There are many sources for the advance and retreat lines as well as temperature that could be built in.Show lessOsotoh
EarthViewer
Love it! Very well done. Well intergrated. Would be nice to see one on thee formation of the solar system. It exceeded my expections and a great teaching tool. High quality.globe2see
Geology essential!
Essential app for geologists of any level. Get this app! Giving and comparing all major events and data in the Phanerozoic. Revolutionary for learning.Mr. Phillips likes!
Could be WAY better...
5 stars for the concept, but minus 2 stars for ignoring the Pleistocene/ice ages of the last 2.5 million years.
To be a really useful and groundbreaking geology app, it needs to be able to step through the last 2.5 million years in much smaller increments so we can see each advance/retreat/advance, etc. of the ice sheets. So far, it's ok if you have a passing interest in geological history, but if you need details of the glacial advances (so called "ice ages") of the last 2.5 million years, it's a pretty frustrating experience.Show lessDJB1965
Awesome for Earth Science
Will be using this with my students! Great visuals.LMNAmom
Great Idea Needing Development
I'm giving this five stars because it's such a great idea. The app includes many details of major epochs of Earth's history that are not available in other apps. In fact, I know of no other geologic history app that exceed this app's quality.
The downside is that when scrolling through the timeline, the phases of Earth's history appear as single images. Transition between the images plays as a slideshow. In future versions, I recommend a full morph between images so Earth's history plays as a smooth video instead of as single images fading into each other.
Despite this downside, I'm giving this app five stars because it's a fantastic idea. Since there are many image editing tools that can easily fix the fade vs. morph issue, I'm certain that it will not occur in future versions.Show lessBH Madison, WI
Great app
Excellent app! So much functionailty as a discussion starter in classrooms.TColu
Overburdened
Based like 'Ancient Earth' Nos 1& 2 on Scotese's 'Paleomap reconstructions' and some climate data. This app allows you to follow continental drift and certain aspects of climate change from 540 million years ago to the present without having to reload. It has several other useful and interesting additional features as compared to 'Ancient Earth'. On the other hand, the climatic data is minimal, while the styling is cluttered and unappealing.Show lessGeronimo E
