Timeline for What would happen if a world is full of mountains? How would it affect the geography, environment, and gravity of the planet?
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| May 15, 2022 at 9:32 | comment | added | user81881 | One of the issues regarding mountains on a planet like Earth, with an active atmosphere & surface environment is given time everything erodes & becomes flat. An example of this is Australia. It's highest peak, Mt Kosciuszko, is only 2228 m above sea level. Mainland Australia is largely a flat continent. Without continual mountain building, the landscape erodes to flatness. Like others here, I'm wondering what geological process would enable an entire planet to be mountainous, from volcanism, to plate tectonics, to stresses within the planet's crust & the alignment of the stresses. | |
| May 10, 2022 at 19:56 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Could you expound on "the terrain is so difficult, it's hard for land vehicles to explore…" all you need for that is a few rocks; at worst hills but never "mountains." How do you suppose it might affect the geography, environment, and gravity of the planet? When you don't know what else to say since the idea is new to you and you're having a hard time moulding it why not reveal how far you've got, or start again and write a 1,000-odd word description, if not both? | |
| May 9, 2022 at 19:04 | answer | added | Tim | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 9, 2022 at 14:16 | comment | added | JamieB | I would think the more interesting aspect is what this does culturally. See: Africa or Greece, where geographical barriers helped create cultural isolation and made it nearly impossible for a conquering force to ever sweep through [the Germans managed it in Greece but in the end it was so costly that it represented the end of German paratroopers as a concept]. | |
| May 9, 2022 at 11:08 | answer | added | orithena | timeline score: 6 | |
| May 9, 2022 at 9:45 | comment | added | kaya3 | If your mountains are similar heights as those on Earth (i.e. the peaks are at most a few thousand metres above sea level) then it doesn't matter for your planet's gravity that there are mountains at all. A few thousand metres is less than 0.5% of Earth's radius, so even if your planet is all mountains everywhere, it is still closer to a spheroid than any round object you are likely to see in real life, including billiard balls. If your planet is larger than Earth then it matters even less. | |
| May 9, 2022 at 8:30 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 9, 2022 at 7:48 | answer | added | imtaar | timeline score: -1 | |
| May 9, 2022 at 6:13 | comment | added | Daron | It is a travesty this question has such little attention compared to A world without mountains which does not even have a question mark. | |
| May 9, 2022 at 3:44 | answer | added | Daron | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 9, 2022 at 2:20 | answer | added | Sabrine Crystal | timeline score: 10 | |
| May 9, 2022 at 1:06 | comment | added | IseedeadpeopleNOT | I forgot to add there bodies of water in the world sorry for not providing much information. Again still thinking | |
| May 9, 2022 at 0:46 | comment | added | IseedeadpeopleNOT | Yes there's oceans. I was actually thinking of making the world like a super earth but that's just an idea for now | |
| May 9, 2022 at 0:37 | comment | added | Mary | Your question is too open-ended to be answered. Are there even oceans on this world? | |
| May 9, 2022 at 0:30 | history | asked | IseedeadpeopleNOT | CC BY-SA 4.0 |