01 / SOLID EARTH
Isostasy & crustal roots
Change topographic load and watch the crust respond below the surface.
Earth science, built to be understood
Earth processes,
made spatial.
SpatialAid turns difficult geoscience and environmental concepts into clear, interactive models you can see, change, and understand.
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BUILT FOR LEARNING
Crust / mantle
density contrast
Plate motion
27 mm/yr NW
View
concept -> process
Explore by process
See the system,
not just the definition.
Each concept is designed around the same idea: start with the spatial relationship, let you manipulate it, then connect the visualization to the science.
02 / TECTONICS
Subduction systems
Follow a plate from trench to slab, then connect water release to arc volcanism.
03 / SEISMOLOGY
Seismic waves
Compare P- and S-wave paths through a layered Earth.
04 / HYDROLOGY
Groundwater
Visualize water tables, gradients, and flow through porous material.
05 / SURFACE
Landscape change
Connect uplift, erosion, transport, and deposition through time.
06 / CLIMATE
Earth systems
Trace energy and matter across atmosphere, oceans, land, and ice.
Interactive prototype
Build intuition
before the equation.
Move the slider. Watch the mountain grow and the crustal root deepen. Then connect what you see to a simplified Airy isostasy relationship.
Isostasy Lab
01 / OBSERVE
See the geometry
Topography above the reference surface is paired with extra crust below it.
02 / INTERACT
Change one variable
Moving the relief slider makes the relationship visible instead of abstract.
03 / EXPLAIN
Then use the equation
The mathematics now describes a pattern you have already seen with your eyes.
Why SpatialAid
If a process is spatial, the explanation should be spatial too.
Geoscience asks learners to imagine motion across scales: plates over millions of years, waves through Earth, water through rock, and heat through the crust. SpatialAid is being built to make those relationships visible before they become equations.
VISUAL FIRST
INTERACTIVE
SCIENTIFICALLY GROUNDED
CLEAR LANGUAGE
Coming next
A growing atlas
of explainable Earth.
This is an early prototype. Future modules can combine 2D diagrams, 3D models, timelines, maps, field examples, and equations in one coherent learning experience.
S
Subduction Explorer
Trace slab geometry, earthquake depth, water release, melting, and volcanic arcs in one cross-section.
P/S
Seismic Path Lab
Launch P and S waves through a simplified Earth and see why shadow zones reveal the core.
H2O
Groundwater Sandbox
Change permeability and hydraulic head, then watch groundwater flow respond.
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Deep Time Viewer
Move through geologic time while continents, climate, life, and major events update together.