Ancient Earth

Can’t use what was a good app.

Ancient Earth, as it's subtitle suggests is a great way to help a layperson (such as myself) visualize the breakup of Pangaea. It's also great fun to play around with and discover interesting little nuances of Earth's global geological history. While the app is rather expensive, when I consider the amount of work it borrows from its parent project (the PALEOMAP project) and the sheer novelty of seeing those maps as a time-shiftable, rotable globe, I am happy to spend that money. Caveat emptor. I'm holding back on the full five stars as the interface is rather fiddly. (E.g. it's rather easy to wind up tilting the globe ninety degrees when attempting to rotate forty-five degrees, and then having to perform a multitouch re-tilt which only works under mysterious circumstances.)

Beat spherical representation of the tectonic plates of earth shifting over earth’s inception.

If I could give this zero stars I would. This is the most worthless app I’ve ever used. Felt like a scam it was so bad. DO NOT GET THIS

Too basic and no update on UI, it lags and it’s clunky. Too expensive for what it is.

I am a geologist who studies the history of the earth. Date from hundreds of sources are incorporated into these maps. For years the maps were only shared within the geoscience community and were rather expensive. To have them available in the public domain for such a low price is great.

If you want to see images from great distance of ice on earth you can probably get that for free on google. Not was to use and glitches back to Africa every time you tap.

I just discovered Dr Scotese's maps and was delighted to get the app so I could look at the movements at the poles. The time line is great and being able to lock onto a particular location or continent is very informative. The app only goes to 201 MYA! If you want the formation of Pangea from the Cambrian, you must buy another App. The app would have been rated 5. As it only provides a half the story, the rating is half.

There are other apps that are better and MUCH cheaper. Try Iapetus.

I was delighted to find this very clever app. For a couple years, I had been using the series of maps available on the PaleoMap Project online. This app has turned flat maps into a navigable globe. So much easier to use and to visualize and illustrate changes over the last 200 million years. Everyone I show this to wants one for themselves!