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Hyrotrioskjan — The Kurnugian Sea
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Published: 2015-12-24 02:25:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 7904; Favourites: 147; Downloads: 67
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A much more detailed but still rough map of the Kurnugian sea, the Neanean alps, the Hubur river system and the surrounding desert.Nea: hyrotrioskjan.deviantart.com/a…
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How big is the Kurnugian Sea? I keep imagining it as being the size of Lake Michigan, but some part of me keeps saying that it's probably much bigger than that.
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So when creating maps do you just draw these by hand digitally or by more traditional formats? Or is there like some sort of program you use? Sorry I know it's a really dumb question I'm just like super oblivious to all this stuff
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I have the map of the whole planet on a 1,5mx70cm large cardboard, that's too large to scan it so I photographed it and painted over
it digitally.
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Oh. Okay. Thanks for responding
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salt desert (white) and natron/salt lakes (orange)
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Are you going to update your current Nea planetary map with a larger size and much more detail like this map?
P.S. I have noticed that there are many light pale spring green areas surrounding the sea and rivers, i would assume that they represent wetlands? and are you planning on making more close-up maps like this?
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I'm not sure if I will do the whole map
They are not really wetlands, the dark green stuff is more wetland-ish 
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Ok, and I've noticed some differences from this map and the planetary map at the same location if you look closely enough, just being observant!
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I know, this is in a way also a update, which is more closely to the original map which is too large to scan
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Oh, ok thanks for letting me know.
P.S. i originally planned to make a bigger, updated, more color appropriate update of your planetary map earlier but i scrapped the idea for the sake of copyright laws.
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Interesting. I bet most colony\city structures sattled in Nea's coasts
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There are indeed many but far less than one would expect.
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The biodiversity is still diverse; however how much small it can\could be
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I thought there was a temperate forest on the eastern shore of the Kurnigian, like in the World map, no?
But like you said, it's still a rough sketch, so there are probably some things to be adressed.
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That map is indeed pretty rough, the green strip you saw there is actually not very much, very little forest, but many bushes, cacti and some grasses.
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Nice, I hope we get more info about all the names of the seas and mountains on Nea.
Those orange spots were alkaline lakes, right?
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Yes, they are very salty lakes, full of red/orange bacteria and small crustaceans.
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How do tectonics work on Nea? This looks like a subduction zone, but Nea lacks the water that allows Earth to have active plate tectonics.
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Are there still active volcanoes on Nea? If it was once a subduction zone, and if plate tectonics hasn't completely stopped, there would probably be volcanoes around somewhere.
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Even with inactive plate tectonics volcanism is still possible, volcanoes can be found in the mountainous regions of the planet but sometimes single hot-spots can be found too
but compared to earth volcanism is a little less active, but thousands of volcanic remains show that this wasn't always the case.
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It was once a subduction zone but after the oceans shrunk the plate tectonics mostly ceased.
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I'm curious, what are the dark ornate spots supposed to represent? And is there anything alive in that itty bitty lake to the left of the sea?
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All these lakes are full of life
"what are the dark ornate spots supposed to represent?", I think you mean orange?
These are salt and natron lakes full of small red bacteria and crustaceans.
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Wut. I typed ornate? Wut? So I did. I'm sorry, I do that sometimes. xD Yes, I did mean orange.
And that's cool! Any particularly strange looking crustaceans?
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That's still a matter of work
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Oooh alright. The microscopic world can hold some very interesting critters though!
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Of course!
I love speculative biology!
#waynebarlowe
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Die orangen Bereiche sind Kolonien, nehm ich an?
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Ne, das sind stark Natron und salzhaltige Seen
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