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Could a Massive Freshwater Lake and River System Exist in a Desert Environment?
In my book series, there is this lake called Lake Pheron. Lake Pheron's surface is located about 2,200 feet above sea level in a mostly flat, inland area called the Tangolian Desert. This desert is ...
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How to Cause a Hydrosphere Apocalypse Part I The Great Drought
This is part one of a two part question. Part two can be found her (How to Cause a Hydrosphere Apocalypse Part II The Great Flood)
Desert planets are a staple of science fiction. And while we have ...
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Northern Great Lakes in an Alternate Island Africa--Would the Sahara DESERT Still be Around?
Recently, I found this map of Africa's paleolakes in the Imaginary Maps reddit:
Finding this map was mere coincidence, but this map definitely interests me. Now there have been multiple what-if, ...
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Natural underground water distribution in a desertic continent
I'm worldbuilding a continent that's mostly desertic (still trying to decide if sand or rocky desert, but definitely a hot desert). All the rain would fall on the edges of it, through a chain of ...
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