Recent content by JohnWDailey

Tell that to the Speculative Evolution Forum.

Place comes first. If you don't pay attention to how the geography influences the climate, then this world is not believable, and reading it would be lacking in substance.

Wrong. It's the truth. In Earth's four-and-a-half-billion-year history, only ten thousand at the least have been spent on telling stories, which have basis on history.

This is not for a story. This is for an alternate history textbook that'd serve as a blueprint for any stories set in that world. World comes before history, and history comes before story. That is how things were, and that is something that too many worldbuilders just missed.

This is for an alternate Earth that I've been building and rebuilding for years. Sometime between the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, there was a mysterious, sudden, dramatic rise in global temperature. This moment in time was known as the "Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum", shortened into...

So where do I post speculative or alternate evolution questions if they're not allowed here?

This is for an alternate history textbook that will serve to be a blueprint for the stories I have in mind. I can't cut it down because everything is connected. And the reason I keep posting this to other forums is so I can find answers and, eventually, a pattern, because if the world is not...

https://orig00.deviantart.net/1603/f/2018/163/d/8/great_lakes_earth_map_by_jdailey1991-dce7cbj.jpg Dark brown=mountains. Light brown=uplifts. Black=Igneous provinces still visible today at their original extent with no consideration of erosion. Let us say that, in the future, some scientists...

If that is all, then it is an alternate history textbook meant to be a blueprint to stories set in that world (in the same vein that our myths and fairy tales are set in our world.) Do you know the answer to the provided question?

Is it necessary to quote the whole thread? It's for an alternate history textbook, but I won't focus on polishing the history until I have the Cause & Effect verified. I've created the Cause, but I don't know the Effect. Also, the title is "Alternate Siberian Traps", not "Alternate to the...

That's rather vague and basic.

Meaning?

Back home, the catalyst for the worst biotic catastrophe in the world, the Siberian Traps, don't have much left. 252 million years of erosion have reduced the igneous province to a pale shadow of its former self. From 60 to 43 million years ago (not 252), a series of flood basalt eruptions...

That doesn't answer the question.

In this alternate universe, Earth is the same as back home--8,000 miles wide, 25,000 around, six sextillion tons, orbiting a G-type main-sequence star from a distance of 93 million miles. But here, the similarities end. MOON DIAMETER--3,273 miles MASS--0.025x that of Earth DISTANCE FROM...