Photo 11 of 15 from Aliadur (part 1)

Techtonic plates

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10-18-2019, 08:27 AM
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Aliadur (part 1)
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Hemdrall Itham

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  1. Bellin
    This is a fairly large number of tectonic plates, especially within the landmasses. While there's no reason this couldn't be true for your world, it would result in a lot of "activity" (quakes, volcanoes, etc.) for those living on the surface. Usually, and Earth/Terra is the only example we know well, landmasses "float" on the top of plates, and only have boundaries at their edges (e.g. all of North America has boundaries with only 5-6 other major plates). Also, wherever you show arrows coming together you would have mountain building and/or one plate subducting below another. And wherever you show arrows moving apart, you would have upwelling lava (or a rift forming) to fill the gap. Hope that is helpful.
  2. Hemdrall Itham
    Hello Bellin, thank you for your feedback on this step of my world building. I'll admit, I'm no geologist so I'm sure there are many many inperfections. That said, I wasn't aware of what you are mentioning here. "landmasses "float" on the top of plates, and only have boundaries at their edges" If anything, was attempting to explain for myself and others how interior mountain chains were formed. Thank you for the pointer here.
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