I'm not really strong in science and I just happened to come across an old article talking about the next super continent. With the moving of tectonic plates and continents essentially colliding over a prolonged period, when that happens is it going to be massive earthquakes and volcanoes erupting? What does the lead up to the supercontinent look like? Will it be devastating?
What is it's name?
Who are the people that inhabits it?
What are the environments like?
IS there more than one?
I got kinda confused as to why one side of the earth has a giant chunk of land, while the other side is just water. I mean the formation of the earth starts with a bunch of space rocks just clinging and pulling each other, how can there just be one giant, bigger than a moon size, chunk of land at a higher elevation? And not to mention on just one side? (Small islands aside)
I know this is a dumb question, but I was wondering if the impact of the mars sized object couldve pushed part of the earth outward, while the other side dipped, causing them to be a contrast of each other?
If this isn't the case, why was there just a giant chunk of land of one side?
Theres probably already an answer, but I just cant find it, so pls be niceπ§π»
So you're saying that throughout the entire huge ass earth, there were only ONE land mass? So 30% of the surface is land and it all just happens to group up into a giant one??
Like the earth's surface isnt smooth so how can only that one land mass be high enough above sea level? Small islands aside.
How did only one side of the earth decided to "Yeah Imma give one side land, and then no where else"
Like I know before pangea, there were other forms of it that existed, but they were never too far from each other. And always in one side and connected.
So like idk smth is just isnt clicking for me rnπ
That or I wouldn't mind some great lakes or Mississippi/Nile style rivers cutting through the terrain of the starting world. Honestly, anything that's not a weird as archipelago world. That's all I seem to get from seeds. It's a fine continent style but it would just be cool to get different styled continent types soo, yeah I guess post your dope af seeds that you've never seen before cause I've spent too much time on like 6 worlds already and haven't gotten anything different from a weird archipelago thingy. Thanks and happy sphere building cheers!
I miss being able to travel from one end to the other without getting my tentacles wet.
I am having some trouble worldbuilding my planet in terms of geography and climate. The interactions between plate tectonics, wind and current trajectories, weather, etc is all very complicated. I know basically what I want but am unsure if my theories on how to achieve it are correct.
Ultimately I am aiming for a world with many easily floodable lowlands, thick forest canopies, and steep cliffs. There will be few open grasslands or savannas in comparison. Overall the general climate is hot and wet.
What do we know about the climate of supercontinents? Would it be less variable and extreme than the weather of several small continents?
My worldbuilding is in relation to the speculative evolution of an intelligent species. I will give a rundown of the evolutionary timeline below. I would like to know if it sounds plausible and if the mechanisms for it are sound. Beware it is a bit long.
A diverse group of arboreal lemur like creatures evolve in expansive dense forests. Herbivoris megafauna evolve to eat the plants in these forests. This leads to a competitive co-evolution between the plants developing defense mechanisms and the animals being able to eat them. Our lemurs intelligence improves as a means of determining what food is safe to eat, where it is located, etc. They are capable of basic tool use, problem solving, and cooperation.
As the climate warms glacial melts cause massive flooding. At the same time the continents have been slowly moving apart, leading to more variable weather patterns. This environmental change leads to the extinction of many of the forest plants and the animals that eat them. In the habitat of our lemur species much of the forest floor and understory is submerged. In response great migrations occur. Interaction between "tribes" of our lemur species increase. There is also fierce competition for the scarce resources. Adaptability and communication improve.
Global mean temperatures stop rising and become steady, however weather remains highly variable as the continents continue to shift. The species becomes capable of enduring these dramatic shifts and eventually even thrive despite them. Slowly the extremes lessen. At a certain point the species has mastered its environment and begins to develop a form of agriculture and/or animal husbandry. This leads to society and the explosion of art, culture, technology, etc. as we have seen in humans.
Is my understanding of continental weather and climate correct? In other word
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I was playing around with world map ideas in Incarnate and one of the generated world's was this long connected landmass with only one island not connected.
It got me thinking, how different would the interactions between nations, the development of cultures and the view of humans be if they were all on the same landmass?
Instead of having multiple continents and stuff like that
I was playing around with world map ideas in Incarnate and one of the generated world's was this long connected landmass with only one island no connected.
It got me thinking, how different would the interactions between nations, the development of cultures and the view of humans be if they were all on the same landmass?
