Rockd
Play on PC with BlueStacks – the Android Gaming Platform, trusted by 500M+ gamers.
Page Modified on: January 31, 2019
Play Rockd on PC
Features:
- Instant access to geologic and geographic summaries of your current location via a Dashboard
- Interactive global access to more than 140 geologic maps, with more being added weekly
- See your past location and explore paleogeographic maps from C.R. Scotese and GPlates
- Explore published literature containing mentions of mapped geologic units (when available) via GeoDeepDive
- Elevation data for most points on Earth from SRTM, GMTED, NED and ETOPO1
- Add your own field observations even offline; tag features from Macrostrat and the Paleobiology Database
- Record strike/dip or trend/plunge for geologic features, using your phone's compass
- Track your progress through the geologic record privately, or share it with others
- See the public activity of other users and share your own and other public checkins using unique URLs
Rockd is produced by the Macrostrat lab in the Department of Geoscience at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Support provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Dept. of Geoscience.
Experiencing issues? Send an email to contact@rockd.org and we will do our best to help you resolve it.
Play Rockd on PC. It’s easy to get started.
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Download and install BlueStacks on your PC
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Complete Google sign-in to access the Play Store, or do it later
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Look for Rockd in the search bar at the top right corner
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Click to install Rockd from the search results
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Complete Google sign-in (if you skipped step 2) to install Rockd
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Click the Rockd icon on the home screen to start playing