Reply With QuoteThe only way to have multiple drains, that I've seen, is in swamps. I was looking at the Everglades the other day in FlashEarth and there are a ton of anomalies there. But, then again, it's a swamp so that's to be expected.
The thing is: because of recent changes in the layout of the terrain multiple drains could be possible. If a map was made at that time...
But I agree eventually there would be only one drain (this could take many years).
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The only way to have multiple drains, that I've seen, is in swamps. I was looking at the Everglades the other day in FlashEarth and there are a ton of anomalies there. But, then again, it's a swamp so that's to be expected.
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Lakes straddling the continental divide aren't particularly common, but they do exist. The most famous is Isa Lake, but Poudre Lake (right near where I live) will drain to both sides of the divide in a wet spring.
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I think your river forks are backwards. If the snow is melting and draining inwards (as I would expect with a crater) then the smaller rivers would not fork away from the middle but instead fork out from the middle (starting at the edges they flow inward and join the main river). The build up of CO2 and the subsequent heat would melt a lot of snow and that crater would fill up so I'd hate to live there on the ground. That would also give the snow less of a hard edge and more of a tundra effect as the snow gets slowly melted...sort of like snow --> tundra --> grass. I quickly went over your map to show what I mean in case my words are coming out wrong.
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I like that idea Ascension and your drawingI am trying to give the impression of a shear face on the tundra region but I have a crappy monitor and what is dark as hell on this is non existant on a better one.
The planet is an ice ball and the only thing keeping this area habitable is nano-bots. Outside of the region shown it is sub freezing. Also this area is planned to be a couple hundred miles across.
I was planning on having the glacier walls a shear cliff of a couple hundred feet.
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If it were sheer (straight up and down) then no one could go near the edges for fracturing chunks falling off and killing folks. Something slamming into a solid body doesn't produce a sheer face anyway - craters are bowl-shaped. Period.
When I was in the process of constructing my workshop and grading the property the county officials required that I have a slope of less than 30 degrees because the land would erode and create big gullies that would force water run-off onto my neighbors. I also remember something from college geology class about sustainable slopes but I don't remember what that number was. An advanced civilization would know these sorts of things and therefore stick to it. Sure you can explain away unbelievable things with magic or nanobots but why bother? Just make it realistic to begin with and you don't have to think up excuses for bad physics (kind of harsh there, sorry). Put your nanobots to work harvesting hydrogen (or oxygen) from the ice instead of trying to maintain a sheer cliff face that will eventually fall anyway.
The idea of a sheer cliff face is cool and all but it's just not realistic or feasible. And since this culture has space ships the idea of having to climb the cliff face is irrelevant. If you absolutely have to have some sort of cliff for these people to climb around on then put one on the "living" land area as a result of the explosion that resulted in an earthquake.
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