Baeta World Map

[Rljs64]

This is a stripped out version of map I've been working on for a little while now. It was largely inspired by Pixie's maps which I saw whilst lurking on this forum a while back (link: https://www.cartographersguild.com/s...ight=pixie+map)

I'd love some feedback as you folk seem to really know your stuff. Are there any spots that stand out to you as unfeasible/unrealistic?

I have tectonic/climate/country versions but thought I'd start here and see what happens.

Thank you x

Plate Carrée.jpg

[waldronate]

Any collection of squiggles is plausible as coastal outlines. It's the scale and details (mountains, forests, deserts, and so on) that determine plausibility.

To clarify a bit, both of the images below are completely plausible as coastlines, even though one looks like a vomiting cat and the other looks like a bunch of random lines merged together:

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[Rljs64]

Thanks Waldronate. I'm happy with the details of the coastline, it's more the shape of the continents and how they relate that I'm not so sure on. I'll post the tectonics map later as well.

Perhaps I should have marked this a WIP, which it very much is.

[Charerg]

Nice to see another mapper trying the "science approach" on world building!

Like waldronate said, all coastlines are theoretically possible, it's figuring out the tectonics that explain them that is the tricky part. For example, if some pieces of land have drifted away from each other, there should be some correlation between the coastlines. That said, that's not 100% the case. For example, in the case of Europe and North America, the coastlines only really match in Norway and Greenland. The rest of the European coastline doesn't really fit the American coastline, since there's a lot of submerged continental crust, and some pieces (Spain) have also changed position since the Pangaia stage. So, one might say that there's some room for non-matching coastlines, you just need to make sure that the underwater parts of the continental crust fit at least roughly.

Other than that, erosion is also a big factor for the shapes of the coast. If you have something like glaciers or ice ages, glacial erosion can carve those deep fjords and produce very rugged coastlines (Norway, Greenland, Scotland, the Antarctic Peninsula). A river delta would keep dumping silt into the sea, eventually building up large flatlands (the Low Countries, the Nile Delta and many others).

[Pixie]

I'll post the tectonics map later as well.

Post it!
I'm very curious...

So far, it looks good (didn't have much time for a proper long look, though)