TimeTrek

The Timetrek Globe showing depth-coded (red is 300km+) earthquake data for the Pacific Rim

    Timetrek comes with a number of features and data files.  A higher resolution set (derived from the World Vector Shoreline data) together with 200m and 2000m bathymetry.  All the files are sub-divided into many newly identified fragments since the last version.  To complement this update, the rotations use new time-scales and take the reconstructions back to 700 Ma (Rodinia), though many pre-Permian reconstructions involve significant speculation.

     It comes complete with a magnetic anomalies data file that can be animated to show the evolution of the oceans.  A volcano data set showing all active volcanoes on the planet, each individually named.  Furthermore, there is the earthquakes data set showing earthquakes  greater than magnitude 4 that occurred between 1980 and 1988.  Again each one is individually depth coded.

    You can still add, label and animate your own data, the format for which is explained clearly in the help files.  The interface has been improved with new options for loading several layers on top of one another, displaying data (including line data) and a new Fly-around option allows you to "fly" a great circle path around the globe at any valid age.

A View of the TimeTrek Globe at 40 Ma with Magnetic Anomalies displayed

    TimeTrek is an extremely powerful tool for both research and teaching.  You may also find our reconstruction workhorse ATLAS is of interest.  Click here for information.

• You can save and load all the settings from a parameter file so that you can reproduce exactly the map sequence later on.
• The Options dialog is replaced by a smaller Preferences dialog using tabs to select pages within it. New options are:
• Draw the map limb (edge of the map). Useful if you use white for the ocean fill.
• Select how data labels are stored to balance speed vs memory.
• Show data points at all times as well as just when active - a hollow symbol is used to distinguish inactive points.
• You can specify margins when printing.
• The data point identification (right mouse click on it) system has been revamped. In addition to the label, it also now (optionally) shows the latitude & longitude of the point(s) in both present day and paleo co-ordinates. You can also make it flash to distinguish in closely packed groups. It can also use it to link to an external document.
• You can drag and drop appropriate files (*.mas, *.cos, *.atl, *.prm & *.sec CPSL formats) onto the map.
• The limit on the number of points in a new topography (layer) file has been increased to 64000.
• When printing, you can select the whole sequence (or part of it). Previously you could only print the current map.
• The label of a data point can include a link to an external document. When the point identification dialog is activated (by right mouse clicking on the point), the document type and a list of corresponding actions (if any) is shown for the selected point. For example, file.txt would be flagged as Text Document with actions open and print which would invoke NotePad if activated. The document types and their actions depend on what applications are installed on your machine - if you want to link to a jpeg image, you must have an application that displays jpegs and associates the .jpg extension with them.