Questions tagged [geography]
For questions about the characteristics and effects of natural features on a world.
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Could we have sumatra but bigger? [closed]
The problem is the following: I've created a world first based on vibes with geography that "looked" good but without much thought behind. As I continued making the world though, I've fell ...
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How can I make my map more geographically and meteorogically correct? [closed]
I want to have a plausible planet, with accurate tectonic plates, continents, wind patterns/currents, etc. Any tips or resources I can study are greatly appreciated, and here is my map as of now.
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What volume of sediment would be required to close the Shargrainan Straits?
Related to How can I make a migratory path sea channel between two land-masses be at risk of closure at any time?, I have decided to have the Shargrainan Straits on my world of Ruquelis closed by a ...
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Can peaty/boggy/wet/soggy/marshy ground be solid enough to support several tonnes of foot traffic per minute but NOT support a road?
We have a valley. There is a path going through the valley. It is very wet/soggy/peaty etc etc. I want a justification for there not being a road (by road, I mean of the artificial construct kind, i....
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I need a reason for artillery to still be used despite suboptimal conditions and terrain [closed]
Geographic background: the theatre is full of swamps, bogs, dense forests, mud, marshes, valleys, rivers, shrubbery, and humidity.
Technological background: basically while we have in existence; ...
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Can a Iron Age tribe 'safely expand and develop itself' inside of a large cave system [closed]
I've written a geographically humid-wet-tropical-fenny-foresty ish setting. There are lots of valleys. And caves. And hills.
One particularly large community of iron age peoples resides inside a cave ...
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Is there a geologically sound way of making peat renew 'even faster'
Yes. I know it's a clumsily written title.
The long and short of it is that I am writing about a tropical rainforest that is being harvested for, among other things, its peat.
Problem I need addressed ...
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What latitude of Earth will avoid mountain collisions for a flying island?
In my story, there's an island. Said island has the same size and shape of Ireland. The island magically floats 2,000 meters above sea level and has a depth of 100 meters. The island moves east in a ...
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How would plate tectonics and magnetic field work with a core composing of mainly gadolinium?
I'm worldbuilding a super-Earth with a core composition mostly made of gadolinium instead of iron, though I'm not sure if or how that would impact plate tectonics. Currently, there are two ...
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Do the speeds of travel or information transmission put an upper limit on the size of an empire?
From Rome to Hadrian's wall is 1,400 miles, which at 20 miles a day would take 70 days to march, and before the opening of the first transcontinental railroad it could take 4 to 6 months (pdf) to ...
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What would the currents of a Europa-like moon look like?
I’m working on a moon where life exists under warmth a thick sheet of ice. Here are some details about the moon.
It’s orbiting a rogue planet
The planet is a gas giant 2x the mass of Jupiter
It orbits ...
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Almost no precipitation in summer, huge amount of precipitation in winter? (dry summer / snowy winter)
Can I scientifically justify the climate on a mountain plateau (about the size/height of Tibet), where the summer is dry and the winter is wet, with lots and lots of snow? (Like, as much as possible).
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What could have led to a city/planet that is covered in toxic smog where 'everyone' lives on the top levels of decrepit megastuctures
what circumstances would be necessary for a planet/city where the lower altitudes/lowlands are just a toxic cloudy hellhole inimical to human life.
Basically in my setting, people are living, hint, ...
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By what natural process could a triangular lake form?
The image above represents the Elevelune region of my world. How might a lake such as this have formed? My initial investigation prior to posing this question suggested meander cutoff or as the result ...
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How big could a Mesa/Teupui kind of thing surrounded by sheer cliffs be with earthlike geology?
How big could a mesa or tepui surrounded by sheer cliffs theoretically be assuming Earth-like geology?
Specifically what I am looking to create is a land area inaccessible by any means of moving a ...
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How can I make a migratory path sea channel between two land-masses be at risk of closure at any time?
I am considering an earth-like world orbiting a G7V star where there are two large tectonic plates, both with large land-masses upon them, that are moving together, with Plate A subducting beneath ...
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How could a tropical saltwater lake, turned to freshwater, become salty again?
I'm looking for information on how feasible it is for a large, freshwater lake to become salty, at least to a level where the people, animals and plants that live around and rely on it can no longer ...
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What geographical changes does Canada need to have a far larger carrying capacity?
Despite being larger than the USA, Canada has substantially fewer people. As a matter of fact, California has more people than Canada does. This is because Canada has much less arable land than the ...
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What if Antarctica was located around northern pole instead of being located around southern pole?
Lets imagine that instead of being located around Southern Pole Antartica is located around Northern Pole like this.
How this would change climate of Northern hemisphere? When I tried to google ...
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A new cradle: The best place to kickstart civilization
In this world, a group of experts from our world were thrown to the past by unknown forces. Exactly 12,000 years back. To go back to our world, they need to kickstart the industrial revolution as soon ...
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View From the Foot of a Mountain Diskworld
I'm putting together a world for a story that is a disk world composed of a single enormous mountain that peaks at the center. About half of it is covered in water, leaving the exposed part at about ...
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Where on the surface of the Earth would be best to start a colony from scratch? [closed]
I have been tasked by my College Writing professor to write an essay my choice of real people from my personal life to recolonize the Earth. I am looking for inspiration as to where this would take ...
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What kind of small to medium town would be present on the border of two opposing nations? [closed]
So, a mountain range acts as the only land route between two countries. To the east, a humid land dominated by a massive jungle, which is occupied primarily by orc and orc-adjacent races. To the west ...
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Climate and ecosystems of Zealandia [closed]
As per the title, I have not been able to locate accurate information regarding what the climate of a surfaced Zealandia have. For the purpose of the question, we will suppose that the continent ...
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North pole continent: effects on climate
As the title implies, this question is straight forward: how would the climate develop if an Antarctica-like continent had developed during, say, the pleistocene? Would winters be milder in the ...
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