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Possibility and sustainability of Volcanic Climate in Tropical Asia
I am looking for an answer relating to the possibility of very tall volcanoes (maybe as tall as 6km high), scattered around Tropical Asia (Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia), that spew lots of ...
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What biomes would Atlantis (mythical land in the Atlantic Ocean) have? [closed]
Atlantis is a mythical continent from Plato's writings. It was an advanced island that rivaled Athens. It lost favor with the Greek gods and as a result it fell beneath the waves.
Neat story but I'm ...
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What biomes would Gondwana, a supercontinent consisting of South America and Africa have?
Hundreds of millions of years ago, there was a supercontinent named Pangaea that had almost every landmass on Earth. Later on, that landmass drifted apart into continents. It first became smaller ...
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What climate would Kumari Kandam have (a mythical continent on the Indian Ocean)?
Kumari Kandam was another mythical continent. It was believed to be host to an ancient Tamil civilization. Such a land was mentioned in ancient Tamil writings. Europeans picked up on the idea to ...
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How could someone induce a cave-in quickly in a medieval-ish setting?
The idea here is that a commander of an army intentionally caves in a cave for a tactical benefit, and this needs to happen quickly. The best ideas i had were either explosives (obvious, but maybe ...
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How would Earth's land be different climatically if it was 50% land and 50% water?
I'm coming up with an alternate world that is far more balanced when it comes to the surface area. Real life Earth is 71% ocean and 29% land. Astronomers speculate that Earth got its big oceans by ...
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What geological and climatic factors could result in a planet where the only biomes are oceans, deserts and wetlands? A wet OR dry world
Imagine a planet that sustains life, has oceans and continents plus an earth-like atmosphere; a planet similar to earth in most ways, but with only extremely dry and extremely wet biomes. Science ...
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Geology and climate etc on a earth size habitable moon of a gas giant [closed]
A bit of background:
I'm in the beginning stages of creating a habitable moon orbiting a gas giant. The conditions I have so far for this are:
The moon itself is more or less Earth-size, and the gas ...
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How to dry an ocean planet and NOT turn it into a salty desert?
So, Here's the scenario:
we start with an ocean planet, with minimal dry land. The planet stays this way for at least 400 million years. (Notably, life evolves during this time period.) Then, a magic ...
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Can post-glacial (icesheet) landforms be present on the warm desert (BWh/BWc)?
How realistic would it be to have moraines and dried lakes on deserts? I plan to have a salt lake with a few rivers flowing in - how much time would they have to erode canyons?
Natural disasters ...
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Could an island on Earth with these climate types exist?
I am creating an RPG and I created a continent in which it is set on. I want to make sure that the climate types in it are realistic as well as the continent.
This island is called Lartess. Lartess ...
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Where should I place my fictional continent in the South Pacific?
Rather than creating an entire world for my worldbuilding project, I was planning on adding an additional continent to Earth. Since the largest “empty spot” is in the South Pacific and one of my goals ...
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Connecting Biomes
I'm in some urgent need of advice about linking together biomes in a realistic manner. Can a taiga connect to an alpine tundra to the north, and a steppe to the south? Then what would branch off of ...
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How to make a bigger planet be as similar to Earth as possible
My fantasy world is slightly larger than earth so that discovery of the continents becomes harder (about 20% surface should do it). But at the same time I want to preserve most aspects to make it like ...
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Starting with a map of current landforms, how can I write the geographic history of my planet?
The current worldbuilding project I have is going to be detailed - very detailed.
It's about the life of an alien planet called Nemo 4, and I want to chronicle the evolutionary history of that life, ...
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