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Thread: The fascinating lands of the Lost World

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    I recommend doing an Earth map at your proposed level of detail with the contours that you have (or want) and don't get more detailed than that. The Earth, she is full of uninterestingly flat areas for many parts of the globe.

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    Looks great so far! The tectonics are a big improvement and it's easy to tell the plate boundaries from the topographic map. If this is mostly an input for climate modeling you don't necessarily need anything more detailed than this; as Waldronate says Earth also has lots more boring flat areas if you look at it only with this level of detail. If you want to make things a bit more interesting, consider that there are lots of mountain ranges that are uplifted far away from plate boundaries because of epeirogenic movement- the Rocky Mountains and Appalachian Mountains being one example. Hotspots can also form mountain ranges within continental plates such as the case of the Tibesti Mountains, and it seems like the Adirondacks were also created because of that. Creating more granular layers below 1,000 meters is also an option, although that's not strictly necessary if you'd rather just move on to climates.

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