What do people think of a proposal of a lot of shallow seas? As in, the arrangement of the continents provides a large amount of the open ocean lying atop continental shelves.It already looks like the southern continent is moving north and colliding with the western continent, producing a chain of mountainous islands along the convergent boundary of the plate shelves. That whole sea would be shallow and duplicate that or something similar a couple more times and suddenly the world is a lot more interesting. Ideally the islands would have to be edited and aligned slightly for this to occur though.
What do people think of a proposal of a lot of shallow seas? As in, the arrangement of the continents provides a large amount of the open ocean lying atop continental shelves.It already looks like the southern continent is moving north and colliding with the western continent, producing a chain of mountainous islands along the convergent boundary of the plate shelves. That whole sea would be shallow and duplicate that or something similar a couple more times and suddenly the world is a lot more interesting. Ideally the islands would have to be edited and aligned slightly for this to occur though.
EDIT: Here's a patch of that. The arrangement may look less organic but it has a definite geological reason and will allow some really neat things.
It is, this is a recipe for a snowball Earth.
How would two polar landmasses create a snowball earth? We had two polar continents last time.
Runaway cooling effect because of a positive feedback loop as there is so much area covered by snow.
Alright. How about a ring of islands around the north pole?
Alright. How about a ring of islands around the north pole?
but I'd really recommend placing them, at least in general, as we go, rather then all in a single post with no idea what else is gonna be up there.
That sounds good, maybe one of the continents is pretty close to the area.
Well, if this is roughly what we have thought about, we could continue from here.
I moved some islands around so the archipelago doesn't look so square.
Would the two biggest islands just end there and be islands, or should they maybe be the end of a larger peninsula for another continent?
About the environment, if the middle islands are quite volcanic, mountainous and we add some warm current coming to the area to also warm the Antarctic peninsula, we could have some funky flora there. Quite temperate for the area.
We should add like ~1000 miles of coast at a time and work on the general shape together, that way everyone is happy and we have time to discuss how the area would be like.
Also can you make a map of the islands around the north pole?
or more then a bit, along with the little island that the archipelago sorta joined onto that was there before my contribution.
I like the second picture, but the event sounds too recent if the tectonics havn't moved it yet. Maybe more of a deformed ring that's already fused into some continents due to continental drift.
Like the middle part curves down to fuse into the southern work in progress continent, the westernmost part cuts off, etc. With 3 or so passages, the currents will be interesting.