Ancient Earth app for iPhone and iPad

4.6 ( 2736 ratings )

Reference Education
Developer: Thomas L. Moore

2.99 USD

Current version: 3.0.6, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 19 Mar 2012
App size: 51.63 Mb

Have you ever wanted to travel back in time? Well, jump on the Ancient Earth time machine app and travel back to a time before the age of dinosaurs, before the evolution of flowering plants, before the last great Ice Age, and well before the appearance of the first humans on Earth. Ancient Earth: Breakup of Pangea vividly illustrates the breakup of the supercontinent of Pangea during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic (200 Ma-0 Ma). Watch as continents drift apart, mountain ranges rise and fall, new ocean basins open, landmasses are flooded by rising sea level, and polar ice caps wax and wane.

Pros and cons of Ancient Earth app for iPhone and iPad

Ancient Earth app good for

It nicely helps me remember when the Atlantic opened at which location.

The price maybe a bit steep for some people, but Ive always wanted one of these things. The graphics are a little chunky, and the globe might not handle like youre used to seeing a globe handle in, for example, the maps app, but if youre a bit of a geology buff, youll play with this thing for days! Thanks for making this!

Some bad moments

Great app! It would be even better if you could experiment with alternative reconstruction poles.

This App works well and looks great. It shows the movements of continental chunks, mountain areas and flooded or dry regions from changes in local sea level. The graphics and colors are great on my iPad2. You can also rotate the globe to view what ever is your area of interest. Should be very handy for comparing the geographic arrangements at particular times and regions with particular evolving taxa.

Ive been looking for this type of tool for years! It is an awesome app, and if you like exploring the Ancient Earth: prehistoric deserts, seas, ice caps, land-bridges, and continents constantly altering, then this is the app for you! You can even pinpoint your current location! Worth it for anyone who is interested into Ancient Earth.

Cumbersome to use and only goes back 200 MY. Wish I could get my money back.

This is a useful app for getting a overall feel of how Pangea was broken up. I found it very useful for my Earth History class is college. My only complaint is the price. Ten bucks just to show the BREAKUP of Pangea, ten I have to shell out another 10 dollars for a different app that shows the FORMATION of Pangea. This needs to be one comprehensive app showing the entire tectonic history of earth. I know the developer worked hard on this app but he is not going to move many sales with this kind of sales scheme.

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!

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