Shouldn't the gyre in that round northeastern sea go clockwise?
The thing about that equatorial sea is that it's otherwise cut off from the ocean. It's not going to export warm water without importing water from somewhere (and the volumes of water circulated by major ocean currents are much bigger than those transported by rivers, so rainfall isn't it). I don't know of anywhere on Earth where a basin's natural curl is reversed simply in order to make its stream parallel to a neighboring gyre's, and even if that effect does come into play here the circulation in the northern strait would be more vulnerable to synchronization with the sea we're discussing than the other way around, due to scale.Normally I would agree with you, but with the warm current in the ocean to the east and the smaller mid temperature current on the southern coast of the small north eastern continent, I think it actually makes sense for the way Nathan drew it. Plus the sea to the south is almost directly on the equator and funnels up into this sea; I imagine this southern sea is quite warm and that warm current feeds directly into the current system you are asking about, and it follows the coast and actually may be the cause of the anti-clockwise current.
I figured we could reorient those island chains to be coherent with everything else if necessary.View attachment 463371
Would that large plate work with these Hawaiian-esque islands?
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Would that large plate work with these Hawaiian-esque islands?
Rough draft for tectonics. Don't read anything into the sizes of the arrows.
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btw i added a few things on the coasts.View attachment 463474
Based off of Codea's ideas for the tectonic plates.
As I had time today at lunch to do something other than paperwork.
Arrows are the general trend of movement of each plate. So as Codea said, don't read anything into the arrows.
General ideas:
Plates C & K closed off the eastern portion of a sea (salt lakes there now). Western portion of the sea will be gone in a few million years.
Plate M in the fastest moving plate influencing the hand formation in plate F. It is also helping form the islands in Plate G.
Plate G is buckling, forming numerous islands, as it slides under Plate H.
Plate I is sliding under Plate J
Plate N and Plate H are slowly closing off the equatorial sea.
Plate P is slowly moving under Plate B.
Plates B, C, D, and E are hampering Plate A overall movement southward.
Looking at it now, I probably had made Plates C and F into one plate.
Plate O is rotating around the pole.
If plate B is moving east then the hotspot island chains should match it, with the bigger/newer islands in the west and getting smaller/older as you go east.
I'm not 100% but I'm pretty sure if the northern plate is going south on one side, it would have to be moving north on the other, due to how a globe works.It might make more sense to break that portion of Plate B off and make it part of Plate L in this case.
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I prefer convergence to divergence in the east. The L-shaped continent looks more like the result of uplift along the edge of a plate than a fragment of a supercontinent.Im back from sweek, so I'm bumping and will post a proposal for tectonics
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This world seems to be on its way to pangeea with a rapidly closing *atlantic* and expanding pacific. the continents however are rifting apart at the same time
That looks very impressive. Nice work.Didn't participate in the creation of the continents, but thought I would have my own go at making the plate tectonics, in case it is of any help. I have to say, plates are hard, because in reality their direction is subtly rotational as well as against or toward one another. My drawing might make no sense but you can take ideas from it if something looks like it works.
That looks very impressive. Nice work.