Questions tagged [geography]
For questions about the characteristics and effects of natural features on a world.
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Would moving the equator to the Tropic of Cancer increase Earth's arable land?
In real life, the majority of Earth's land is in the Northern Hemisphere. The vast majority of people also live in the Northern Hemisphere. Essentially every important country (economics-wise and ...
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minimum atmospheric nitrogen for nitrogen fixation?
what is the minimum partial pressure of atmospheric nitrogen for nitrogen fixing bacteria to actually convert nitrogen into usable forms like ammonia? currently writing history for life within a 120 ...
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Can a planet without a satellite be suitable and how will this affect its climate and appearance? [closed]
I want to create a planet where there will be 2 suns (small races nearby) and without the moon, so that it is very dark at night. But because of this there are many problems with water and geography, ...
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Are these ocean currents for my planet plausible?
This is my first attempt at worldbuilding anything at this point. I heavily modelled my first planet after the Earth as my baby steps. I wanted to experiment with how climates on the planet would be ...
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How could I justify putting my provincial capital in a hostile climate?
The Aurean Dominate is a large, Romano-Byzantine-inspired multiplanetary empire covering the entirety of the Planet Aurea, plus some bits and pieces of the neighboring worlds Awal, Vigam, and Arturia. ...
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What type of climate or geography would allow for a large mountain (10000m+) that glows when the sunlight hits the rockface?
The idea behind this is that there is a large mountain in my world that can be seen from the capital city over 500 km away. I took inspiration from Denali in Alaska, and how it can be seen from ...
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Would it be possible to have "Atlantis" right westward from the Strait of Gibraltar, and have the Mediterrean remain the same?
Im imagining an Alternate History with a realistic Atlantis.
In my setting, the world is largely identical to our own, physically, if not historically, but with one major exception:
The Azores, Canary ...
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Cool tropics, colder poles
Basically, a simplified version of a question I asked before.
I've seen lots of questions on tropical poles and icy equators, but I'm only interested in a cool equator. I don't need the poles to be ...
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Would a flipped Northern Hemisphere still have huge deserts in the Sahara and Siberia?
I am making alternate history timelines where Earth has radically different geographies. I noticed one day that a huge chunk of Earth's land area is near the Arctic Circle. Canada, Siberia, Alaska, ...
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Building the geography/astrography of a "Cool Super Earth"
So I'm currently building the geography of my world. It's supposed to be a Super Earth approximately 2.3 times the size and 1.7 times the mass. It's gravity is slightly weaker and it has slightly ...
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Viability of Hydraulic Telegraph System?
Say an ancient civilization that has excess amounts of copper, tin and lead but has no clear glass and iron.
They want to build a hydraulic telegraph system like the ones used by the Ancient Greeks ...
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What would remain of human constructs after ~3000 years? [duplicate]
In my setting, humanity has largely—if not entirely—gone extinct on Earth. I was curious about what would remain of modern human architecture after around 3 millennia of no upkeep. Primarily urban ...
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What is the feasibility an inland sea situated inside a mountain range be?
I am currently creating a map. It has two landlocked inland seas. However, I want to make them interesting.
I am still learning, so please bear with me regarding my formatting.
The approximate height ...
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Is it possible to make a planet full of water and at the same time without life?
It's me again, I want to ask if it is possible to make a planet full of water but it has no life, the idea that it is a planet full of water with small islands in which there is no life, here is the ...
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What would the climates/biomes on my fantasy continent be?
I've roughly marked out where I think a desert might naturally form according to the mountains, and plotted the rivers in a way that I think makes sense, but what other climates might I expect on this ...
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