Questions tagged [geography]
For questions about the characteristics and effects of natural features on a world.
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What's stopping other rock layers from creating a karst-like landscape?
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I've reread a part of a book about geochemistry and it reminded me that just about any element can dissolve in water if the pH is right. Later an examples of aluminium or iron dissolving en ...
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Conditions for my tower to be above the clouds
I want to build a tower on top of which I should see clouds below.
Example: View from top to be right above clouds (even temporary low clouds are fine)
Question : What conditions are required to get ...
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What is the climate of an otherwise ocean planet with a huge landmass along the equator? [closed]
I am coming up with a new planet idea inspired by One Piece. I'm imagining a planet with the same mass, volume, and sunshine as Earth. The difference is that it is mainly an ocean planet. There are no ...
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Artificially simulate a northern-latitude environment in India (UV radiation) in order to make its natives fair-skinned
Assuming the Himalayas are successfully lowered to around 1,000-3,000 meters in altitude with artificial means, with some mountains kept at their actual altitude to feed the most important rivers, the ...
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IF you had a territorial struggle based on magic, how would it play out? [closed]
A large part of the political power in my world building for my book is based around a concept called "grinding" where a faction would gradually amass influence and natural resources by ...
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Bidirectional engineered rivers for long distance non-self-propelled boats
Building on my previous thread and taking into account suggestions Long distance travel by non-motorised rolling vehicles
I wish to consider two-way rivers that flow in opposite directions at the same ...
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What would be the climatic and solar conditions of a canyon 1 kilometer below sea level in the West Siberian Plain?
Imagine a 3km wide, 99km long canyon which is 1km below sea level, just next to the city of Surgut but not passing through. This canyon has been dug as part of some superproject which seeks to create ...
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How would the ocean currents of these inland/shelf seas work?
Outlined in ink are the relevant coastlines/continental shelves, as you can see there are two inland shelves that are inland/shelf seas. As the major ocean current ends at the southernmost shelf, I'm ...
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Help with a planet that resembles Mercury: double sunset/sunrise etc
I'm new. I'm here because I need help for the geography of a fantasy planet I'm building. I don't want to be scientific, but I also want that my planet is credible. I imagined a planet that has maybe ...
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Is it common enough for swamps/marshes to appear in the uplands/highlands of a land mass as opposed to the lower regions?
This one's simple; I am creating a wilderness map for a TT one-shot and the details of the map see a swampy bog in on portion of a valley running between the mountains, and a canyon going through the ...
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What's the ideal spot on Earth for a planned city? [closed]
In my story, the megalomaniac wants to build a planned city, driven by a delusional utopian vision. Where should she site it?
Assume no political limits. Assume no budgetary limits. This is only abut ...
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What would be the potential climate map of my country?
What would be the effects of the North Pacific current on the climate of that Archipelago in darker Red on the map?
Assuming that the climate is exactly the same as just before the beginning of the ...
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Creating a second earth: How to make a continent?
So, to cut a long story short, a group of people are attempting to turn an earth-sized exoplanet into a new earth; that is, a planet artificially made indistinguishable from old earth.
This planet has ...
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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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Effects of the Himalaya's absence on the Mongolian plateau
According to the world's map, the Mongolian plateau is almost entirely covered by a desert and I just have discovered that it is north of the Xinjiang deserts, the Tibetan plateau and the even higher ...
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What would be the different climates of an island six time the size of Madagascar in longitude and latitude near the west of the Drake passage? [closed]
I have 4 geographic peculiarities to take into account that could influence the climate :
The island is surrounded by a chain of mountains(oceanic ridges) that can protect the coastline from ...
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How would giant creatures that "live" underground shifting their limbs affect seismic activity
Please excuse me if I make any mistakes, this is my first post here.
If there were giant creatures, ranging anywhere from 20,000 square miles (approx. 30,100 square km) to 100,000 square miles (approx....
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Possibility of building a landmass connecting Asia and America in the future
I am thinking of a scenario in which a climatic change and rising sea levels (whether true or not IRL) is threatening the Earth and I have learned that changes in sea levels might be caused by melting ...
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What would happen if Olympus mons erupted?
The Tharsis range is a quartet of immense volcanoes on Mars, one of which, Olympus Mons, is largest in the solar system. It is so vast that it cannot be seen from the surface; should you stand it’s ...
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Where to choose to rebuild after a population reducing event? [closed]
I am trying to come up with a cohesive and easy to understand set of rules for finding where to "start over".
The setting is a group of hikers come out to a world that has collapsed for an ...
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On an Earth-like planet, what geologic features would contain which important minerals (such as gold, iron, copper)? [closed]
I'm writing a book that's set on a planet very similar to earth, meaning it has all the same gravity, mineral compositions, and geologic features. With that in mind:
What geological features are the ...
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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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How would the polar front move?
I am in the process of working out the climate zones for a custom continent. Two of the defining features are its poleward placement in the Southern Hemisphere and the large mountain range running ...
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How can a small country dominate the world economy
On my planet, there are 5 continents and a few countries per continent. The continents are arranged as follows (this is Mercator Projection, and there is a large Pacific-like ocean between the two ...
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Breathing Capability Up Really High [closed]
So my setting is a bunch of islands in the sky above an ocean, and I've toyed with the idea of having a barrier around them so I don't have to Science This Out, but having just discovered this magical ...
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What climate would Mu, a lost continent in the Pacific Ocean, have?
Mu was a mythical continent that was believed to exist in the Pacific Ocean. It was part of pseudohistory back in the 19th Century. Hawaii and other Polynesian islands were believed to be the remnants ...
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Is it possible to make the East Siberian mountains tall enough in order for the Okhotsk coast, the Amur region and Kamchatka fertile?
A follow-up of another question I posted, I just learned seconds after posting that my question does not have to be answered. My most important question: in relation to the Siberian high entering the ...
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What would the climate of Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon be like if the mountains surrounding it were high as the Himalayas
Although both contain the northern poles of cold, they also tend to get somewhat warm in the summer, more than in some places of similar latitudes (according to what I have seen at least). I would ...
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How would the coastlines of a chemical sea on a planet with extreme winds form?
On one of my pet projects, there is a chemical sea similar to the Black Sea if it had the saline content of Lake Natron; extreme density of chemicals in the soil and from vents. It's about the size of ...
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Extreme winds creating windy canyons
On a planet I've been working on that has extreme wind conditions, coastal zephyrs cross through mountains and get split into stream-like avenues that carve deep gouges in the rainshadowed valley ...
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A natural light source on Europa
In our solar system, Europa, a moon of Jupiter, has a large and warm ocean under the icy crust. However, due to it having a rocky core and the icy crust, there is no light in the ocean. I want to make ...
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How difficult would it be to find today a meteorite impacted on a mountain during the Middle Ages?
I have the following scenario: a large group of enslaved people (one hundred or so?) looking for a meteorite on a mountain. It struck at some point in the Middle Ages.
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Could a flat planet form by rotation?
Suppose a planet had an extremely fast rotation, so fast that the planet is flattened considerably and somewhat resembles fictional flat earth,
Only at the north pile does life to exist, where the ...
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What planetary conditions would lead to a rough terrain?
I'm designing a world where humans find it easier to travel using arachnoskeletons, exoskeletons that have 8 spider-like legs. I thought that these legs would be the most effective for traversing ...
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What types of environments and geographic features can uranium be found in? [closed]
There is a magic society, created by sorcerers to escape persecution. Their society is isolated from the main kingdoms, though they eventually will trade with them again in less than a few decades. ...
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What characteristics does my deadly river need so people can't find the bodies of those who drown in it?
My story is set in a small Idaho town called Serpent's Yard, named after the cryptid they believe lives in the lake up in the mountains above the town. The town is built around a river, known as ...
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How likely is it for a planet to have belt-shaped continents?
Is it possible for such a planet to have main continent(s) shaped as following?
Apparently an equatorial belt is possible to form from ring debris, but it seems to depend on the planet having no ...
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Could a planet have ocean basins if it did not have an ocean?
If a planet, lets call her Shiloh, had no oceans or liquid water on the surface; Could it still have deep, vast ocean basins? Or would a dry ocean basin level out over time?
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Where in the American West Would a New City Arise? [closed]
It's been 20 years since a global pandemic wiped out over 99% of the world population, and America was not spared. Of the 330 million people in the country (give or take a few million), only about 1.5 ...
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Any natural way that a River can "move" by hundreds of kilometers seasonally
I'm designing a Nomadic culture and I had an interesting concept.
One of the reasons for nomadism is to find resources that "move" annually.
In the case of pastoral nomads, it is to find new ...
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Giant Freshwater vs Saltwater lakes
I am doing worldbuilding on a region centered around a gigantic lake in the sub-tropical region in the northern hemisphere of a planet. I want the lake to incredibly huge, like around 2 million square ...
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Can you have a very cold swamp?
In the research I have done, cold climates trend toward dry climates. I want to create a climate that circumvents this. I want to create a very cold climate with the average temperature hovering about ...
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Possibility for a cooler eastern Australian coast
I want to place a country in Oceania, but its eastern coasts appear to be too hot in summers, I want to change its climate a little bit to make it more livable in summer, how can we change its ...
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How many moons do I need to throw at a planet to shatter the tectonic plates? [closed]
Original question - {So basically, I have this planet of many islands, with a large set of rings across it, and the only planetary backstory I could think of is throwing some moons at it, which leads ...
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Possibility of a powerful Siberia invading through the far East [closed]
I am trying to imagine a scenario in which a large, powerful and densely populated country in a far more hospitable Northern Asia invades throughout East and Southeast Asia in a similar fashion to ...
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What would be the ideal conditions for a farm-world?
As title says, but for added context, here goes: The setting is a rather intricate take on hard-magic meets science-fiction, and takes place in a highly advanced milky way populated mostly by humans ...
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What would be the climate of a greater Antarctica? [closed]
I am thinking of a scenario about a supplementary piece of land on the coast of Antarctica which straddles north of the Antarctic circle with a mountain range, possibly entirely shielding it from ...
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Is colonization through underground tunnels possible? [duplicate]
I am thinking of a scenario in which a tunnel linking Hungary to Morocco is built around the 1500s by the King of Hungary in an attempt to colonize Morocco to get a border with the Atlantic ocean. ...
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Could superhuman pre-Industrial Orcs wage effective guerilla warfare against a modern military?
In my story, a portal links the modern world to a medieval fantasy world. This is sort of similar to Gate: Thus the JSDF Fought There. The North Korean military decides to go through their portal and ...
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Which Planets of my Galaxy Would Have the Most and Least Developed Economies? [closed]
While there are hundreds of thousands of planets in the galaxy my story is set in, only a handful of them are habitable, and over many millennia, each planet has more-or-less broadly coalesced around ...
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