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    I drew rough outlines of where I expect rivers to be. If anyone points out any violations or gives suggestions I'd love it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by spudspotato View Post
    I drew rough outlines of where I expect rivers to be. If anyone points out any violations or gives suggestions I'd love it.
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    Your forking is largely backwards with lots of distributaries and no tributaries. You also have two river systems that don't seem to go anywhere. There are a few rivers on earth that really don't reach a basin of any sort but just evaporate away into an "inland delta". This requires fairly unusual conditions, much more so than for an endorheic lake (one with no outlets).

    Finally you have a very improbable looking water gap (River running through a gap in a ridge) in the east of the western continent. A water gap either means that there just is no possible way for the water to get out except through the mountains, or the mountains raised up after the river was already established. Remember that rivers flow downhill.

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