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Q&A Would these processes be probable on this planet?

Background This planet, located somewhere in the Andromeda galaxy, orbits a M5V star about 0.682764 AU away from its star. The planet is volcanically active due to the gravitational field of the ...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Covision‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Covision‭

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Q&A Volcanic island generating its own storms

Picture this, a highly volcanic island sitting in the middle of a temperate or sub-arctic sea, the heat generated by the magma beneath the island and the volcano heats the air enough to generate a ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Aezyc‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Aezyc‭

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Q&A Could Volcanism Provide a Large "Heat Oasis" in a Polar Desert?

So there is an Antarctic like continent in my setting; and just like Antarctica it is the largest and most inhospitable desert in the planet due to how absolutely cold it is. But what if there wa...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by NixonCranium‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by NixonCranium‭

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Q&A Is an extinct volcanic tube marketplace possible

Could people with Iron Age technology possibly dig large holes in volcanic rock on the edges of a lave tube system. Would this be an effective way to run a trade business or to live in an undergro...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Capillary Cumorah ‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Capillary Cumorah ‭

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Q&A Where do hydrothermal vents form inside icy ocean worlds?

Context: In a near-future version of our solar system, humans have established multiple underwater colonies on Jupiter's moon Europa. Many of these outposts are situated next to hydrothermal vents ...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Zxyrra‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Zxyrra‭

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Q&A Can I use an active flood basalt province as a "biome" without messing my world up?

I want to use the an active large ignious province (LIP) as a "biome" on a continent in my world. This video about the Siberian Traps inspired me. A LIP modeled after the Siberian Traps gives you a...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by TheDyingOfLight‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by TheDyingOfLight‭

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Q&A How could a volcanic island last for 100 million years?

Some islands can survive for very long. Madagascar, for example, has been around for 80-100 million years and is likely to remain isolated for hundreds of millions of years more. Volcanic islands,...

4 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by SealBoi‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by SealBoi‭

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Q&A What's the largest igneous province an impact event could create on Earth?

With the potential for an impact event to trigger volcanic activity on the opposite side of the planet, what is the largest plateau of flood basalt physically capable of forming on Earth, post-impa...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Wax‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Wax‭

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Q&A Plausibility check: heat emission from extinct volcanoes

There's an important aspect of my headworld involving volcanoes which I planned many years ago. Recently I revisited this concept to refine it further, only to run into a few questions that I've b...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Lilian Silva‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Lilian Silva‭

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Q&A Geothermal Oasis Alternatives on Ice Planet

I have an Earth analog that is nearly completely covered in ice and glaciers. I want to have oases of warmth scattered across the planet. These oases aren't tropical by any means, having just enoug...

6 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Thalassan‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Thalassan‭

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Rigorous Science A Dozen Cubic Miles of Volcanic Ash--How Big Would the Cloud Be?

On May 18, 1980, Mount Saint Helens made American history with an eruption that took 57 human lives and killed thousands of animals. It has released only a quarter of a cubic mile of ash, but it i...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by JohnWDailey‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by JohnWDailey‭

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Q&A A hang glider, sudden unexpected lift to 25,000 feet altitude, what could do this?

This is the third in a series of 5 (at this point) questions. It's not relevant to this question, but for anyone who's curious this was the first, this the second. Conditions for this question are...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Mr Bumble‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Mr Bumble‭

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Q&A Realistic placements of Mountains and the like

This question basically boils down to this: What would be the places on a given continent where one would find mountains? I have seen maps from games, movies, board games, books etc. where it would...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Blue Devil‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Blue Devil‭

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Q&A Perpetual Volcanic Eruption

As the title says, is it possible to have a volcano that is perpetually erupting, and how would it be achieved? To be considered a "Perpetual Eruption", the volcano must emit moderate quantities o...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Kyyshak‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Kyyshak‭

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Q&A Boiling sea between volcanoes

In my world, there is a chain of offshore volcanoes which are the result of a smaller plate hitting a larger one. There are two to three active volcanoes. My question is: two of these volcanoes a...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by The Imperial‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by The Imperial‭

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Q&A How long does it take for islands to form after an underwater volcanic eruption?

So, vaguely, I remember from earth science that when submarine volcanoes erupt they eventually form archipelagos. My question actually has several parts; Starting with the first eruption to bre...

4 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Noellektrae‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by Noellektrae‭

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Q&A Determination of reasonable volcanic island height from area?

My islands (in the world I'm building) were formed from a volcanic hotspot. I want to build realistic islands, so I was wondering how tall volcanic islands are generally in relation to their area. ...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by JSCoder says Reinstate Monica‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by JSCoder says Reinstate Monica‭

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Q&A The Subductive Hotspot

On Earth, there are only two different ways to create major volcanoes. One way is subduction. It occurs when older/heavier rock sinks beneath younger/lighter rock. As the rock descends, it lique...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by JohnWDailey‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by JohnWDailey‭

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Q&A Can Off-shore Calderas Exist?

A caldera is usually the remnant of a volcanic eruption powerful enough to collapse the structure surrounding the magma chamber. Many of our examples, like Yellowstone, Crater Lake, Toba and even ...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by JohnWDailey‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by JohnWDailey‭

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Q&A Is there anything wrong with my plate tectonics map?

Here is a map I just produced of the plate tectonics of a world I'm working on. Does anyone familiar with the subject see anything wrong with it? If you can differentiate between the penciled and...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Arha‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Arha‭

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Q&A Three of the Four Kinds of Volcanic Eruptions...Underwater

A volcanic eruption is measured in two constants--gas and viscosity. For clearance, low viscosity is like squirting water off a nozzle, whereas high viscosity is like squirting caramel off a nozzl...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by JohnWDailey‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by JohnWDailey‭

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Q&A Can a new volcano have metals inside?

If I were to use handwavium to raise a volcano in the middle of the sea, would it contain metals or ores large enough to be extracted by normal means, like mining with a pickaxe? Everything apart ...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Nuloen The Seeker‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Nuloen The Seeker‭

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Q&A Given an initially high concentration of CO2 and H2O, how efficient can I conceivably make a photosynthetic reaction?

I have been told that the high proportion of O2 and CH4 in my atmosphere are unsustainable unless constantly refreshed by an active process. I would like to sustain the following atmospheric compo...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Rúnatál Davino‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Rúnatál Davino‭

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Q&A What is a plausible way to fuel highly active volcanism and seismic activity on my planet?

I thought that a large, close moon might help generate enough heat and stress to raise the average temperature on my world and stave off a Snowball Earth scenario. According to this article and thi...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Rúnatál Davino‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Rúnatál Davino‭

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Q&A Where to find equations to calculate tidal heating in a binary planet/planetesimal system?

I'm building a very small homeworld (0.602 M$_e$) with a very large moon (0.0711 M$_e$) that orbit each other at a barycenter about 7.12 planetary radii (1 R = 0.870 R$_e$) from the primary's cente...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Rúnatál Davino‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Rúnatál Davino‭

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Q&A Could I intentionally trigger a Yellowstone eruption?

I'm very interested in a post-eruption setting in the continental United States. Unfortunately, it looks quite unlikely that a serious caldera-forming eruption is in our near future. However, we'r...

6 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Avernium‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Avernium‭

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Q&A What wearable material do I need to survive a pyroclastic flow?

This question is inspired by Green's Volcanoes in Orbit! The premise is that there is a 50-mile-high shield volcano (again, let's ignore the height implausibility) with a slope of about 2-3 degrees...

14 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by HDE 226868‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by HDE 226868‭

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Q&A Volcanoes in Orbit!

Building on this question about space exploration on the slopes of a 50 mile high volcano, I'm curious what would happen when the volcano erupts. The volcano is: 50 miles high, just on the edge ...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Green‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Green‭

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Q&A Could the Siberian Eruption Get Any Bigger?

Background Information: 252 million years ago, Siberia erupted, releasing enough lava to fill in a volume anywhere between one and four million cubic kilometers. Any time someone thinks "large ig...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by JohnWDailey‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by JohnWDailey‭

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Q&A Could a super volcano cause ragnarok like events?

For the world I am creating I am trying to have an event like a super volcano explosion in its past. Generations of oral storytelling have resulted in the Norse mythology of Ragnarok making its way...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Moreau‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Moreau‭

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Q&A The Geography and Ecology of a Supervolcanic Planet

What would be the geographical and ecological implications for an Earth-like planet that experienced intense volcanic and supervolcanic activity on a scale that, while decreasing over time, was far...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by C. S. Wright‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by C. S. Wright‭

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Q&A Molten Whirlpool planet

Premise; A magma/lava planet tidally locked around its sun. The side facing the sun is always erupting lava, the dark side is a cooled shell, which sinks into the magma beneath in a global whirlpo...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Eloc‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Eloc‭

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Q&A A layer of igneous rock over a large area

How big of a volcano would be needed for a large (Alaska-sized) area on an Earth-Like planet to be covered in a thick shell of igneous rock? Would that volcano also destroy the world or make it un...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Khail‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Khail‭

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Q&A Russia's Alternate Geological History

Since the geological history of the world's largest nation is as big as the nation itself, and since I don't have a master familiarity with Russia's formation over hundreds of millions of years, I'...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by JohnWDailey‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by JohnWDailey‭

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Q&A Volcanic winter related to moons?

My Kepler Bb planet has 4 moons and is habitable. So that is good. But all 4 of these moons are major moons which while indeed possible, could be a problem. You see, these moons are in resonance s...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Caters‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Caters‭

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Rigorous Science How large can a volcano be?

A key part of the plot in a story I'm working on revolves around the main region being on top of volcano that is set to erupt. The trouble is that the region in question in my setting is roughly th...

10 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by HDE 226868‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by HDE 226868‭

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Q&A Californian Yellowstone

North America's largest and perhaps most popular volcano is the plume of mantle situated right beneath the surface of what we arbitrarily call Yellowstone National Park. This image shows the two...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by JohnWDailey‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by JohnWDailey‭

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Q&A Would it be possible to create an artificial volcanic island?

A volcanic island can obviously come into existence quite easily and swiftly by natural causes, as evidenced for instance by the appearance of Surtsey off the coast of Iceland. However, people have...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Kit‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Kit‭

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Q&A Blue Cryovolcanic Planet

Everybody, even those who are complete beginners in the field of Astronomy, know Io, the cryovolcanic moon of Jupiter that looks like a burned pizza with skin cancer. Volcanoes constantly spit out ...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by MedwedianPresident‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by MedwedianPresident‭

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Rigorous Science Habitability of an icy volcano planet

Suppose we have a rocky planet (somewhere between Earth- and Super-Earth- sized) orbiting a star far enough away that it would be around Pluto's temperature if sunlight was the only heat source. If...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Joshua Snider‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Joshua Snider‭

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Q&A Volcanic Debris Clouds In Planet's Low Orbit?

I have a few questions related to a crazy setting I'm working for my novel. Let's say we have a planet with a thin atmosphere and low gravity. It's volcanic activity is so intense that the planet ...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by A.C Louis‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by A.C Louis‭

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Q&A Is a volcano civilization possible?

I would like to create a civilisation that develops near active volcanos. In ancient times, they would make good use of volcanoes like: Use lava as heat resource. Use lava as material to make bri...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by Gstestso‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Gstestso‭

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Q&A Effects on wildlife of having permanent smoke in an area

The setup: A thick mountain chain is permanently covered in smoke. The smoke comes from several active volcanoes within the mountains, and is kept from dispersing by magic (the magic plays virtuall...

1 answer  ·  posted 8y ago by Thomas Myron‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Thomas Myron‭

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Q&A How close is too close for a human habitation to be near an erupting volcano?

I am working on a survival suspense story, where a sizeable group of surivors is trapped in a tropical island (somewhere in the Ring of Fire) by a volcanic eruption. They find shelter from the erpu...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Mindwin‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Mindwin‭

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Q&A Size of the volcano that ends the world

One of the theories behind the extinction of the dinosaurs is the eruption of one or a series of volcanoes. Supposedly the ash expelled by these eruptions blocked out the sun, killing plants and th...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by DaaaahWhoosh‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by DaaaahWhoosh‭

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Q&A Volcano the size of Australia

What would happen a volcano the size of Australia were to erupt? How high on the extinction-list would it rank? Would it be above the asteroid that hit Earth and killed the dinosaurs? Which known...

1 answer  ·  posted 9y ago by Gerwin‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Gerwin‭