I'm excited to dig into this one, having studied geology at university. This sorta thing was always in the back of my mind, excited to see it given form! Awesome job.
@@madelinejameswrites I very much did! It's not easy bringing so much information together and creating a digestible video on it. If I have one suggestion though, it'd be to sprinkle some modern marine carbonates on those continental shelves. Of course, not as significant as terrestrial lithologies which are the main focus, but if you know where your tropical reefs and cooler climate carbonate ramps are they could be mapped as carbonates on the continental shelf, important areas for islands in reefs and shellfish or productive fisheries in the cooler climes. I like how the end result is very familiar, with the landscape being broadly split between erosive and depositional regions, cratons and orogens dividing up sedimentary basins. A simple methodology that gives good results, I'm a fan. In the end, physiographic worldbuilding is all about passing those vibe checks ^^
@@xiphosura413 oh good suggestion! I might dig into oceanic maps with this more at some point. I don't currently have reefs or oceanic bispheres or anything like that atm. And thank you, seriously! I spent so much time on this and it's good to pass the vibe checks haha.
Wow, you rock (pun intentional)! Thank you for the huge amount of research that went into this video. Unfortunetly, I'm not a rock-star (pun intended), and for me there was too much technical terminology. The theory part was not for me. See you on the discord.
At 34:20 you say that shallower mountain ranges have andesitic rock, but in the map you show it looks like the shallow ones only have rhyolitic rock, whereas the older ones have andesitic rock in addition to rhyolitic rock, so I'm confused as to what I'm supposed to do. In general, the igneous section of the mapping part of this video is *really* confusing, as is that part of the text guide. As far as I understand the process is as follows: * make some LIPs at past hot spots and ridges, and make most of them basaltic, with a couple granitic * make some more LIPs around present hot spots and mountain ridges, and make these all basaltic * make some more LIPs around subduction zones and island arcs(maybe only non-hot spot ones?), and make these all andesitic * make some more LIPs around present hot spots, and make these all rhyolitic * on all remaining mountain ranges, past or present, add andesitic rock(or rhyolitic based on the map, which makes more sense), alongside rhyolitic rock(or andesitic based on the map) on older mountain ranges * on past mountain ranges, add basaltic rock but I'm really uncertain, could you clarify what you mean here?
I think part of the confusion might be the LIPs vs other igneous rocks. So there are a few stages. First do 2/3rd of your LIPs, then the remaining 1/3 of your lips section, and then add in general igneous rock based off the general sections. The NW most subduction mountain range at the top of that continent is the most shallow (so has the highest amount of andesitic rock. The one on the West coast of that range is a bit older but has a bit of andesitic as well since it's relatively shallow ish. Does that help?
@@madelinejameswrites Yes, that does make more sense. I think I got confused because the mountain range on the northern continent looks pretty shallow, but is all rhyolitic, but I guess the pointiness of the mountains on the map actually has nothing to do with the height of the mountain range. Thank you so much for responding!
@@madelinejameswrites Sorry, but I'm confused again. In the mountain ranges with andesitic rocks, you have the andesitic rocks closer to the center of the mountain range, where they would be steeper. So, like, is it the case that only shallow mountain ranges get andesitic rocks, but they get them in the steeper parts?
Super comprehensive and detailed, exactly the video on this subject I've been looking for ever since I first got into worldbuilding!
I've been waiting for this one! Mineralogy is one of my favorite topics to learn about. So thankful for your research and presentation!
I'm excited to dig into this one, having studied geology at university. This sorta thing was always in the back of my mind, excited to see it given form! Awesome job.
Hope you enjoy it!
@@madelinejameswrites I very much did! It's not easy bringing so much information together and creating a digestible video on it. If I have one suggestion though, it'd be to sprinkle some modern marine carbonates on those continental shelves. Of course, not as significant as terrestrial lithologies which are the main focus, but if you know where your tropical reefs and cooler climate carbonate ramps are they could be mapped as carbonates on the continental shelf, important areas for islands in reefs and shellfish or productive fisheries in the cooler climes.
I like how the end result is very familiar, with the landscape being broadly split between erosive and depositional regions, cratons and orogens dividing up sedimentary basins. A simple methodology that gives good results, I'm a fan. In the end, physiographic worldbuilding is all about passing those vibe checks ^^
@@xiphosura413 oh good suggestion! I might dig into oceanic maps with this more at some point. I don't currently have reefs or oceanic bispheres or anything like that atm. And thank you, seriously! I spent so much time on this and it's good to pass the vibe checks haha.
Oh this ROCKS! I knew mapping out prehistoric sea levels would come in handy eventually! :D
Oh absolutely!
Wow, you rock (pun intentional)! Thank you for the huge amount of research that went into this video. Unfortunetly, I'm not a rock-star (pun intended), and for me there was too much technical terminology. The theory part was not for me. See you on the discord.
Been so excited to see where you'd be going next in this series. Can't wait for part 12.
thank you so much for your research! I build my map off of that guide
Glad I could help!
She's back!
Been waiting for this for so long!
I love how much you love rocks!
🥰 I really do.
Omg not this dropping right before my break when I just started researching this topic yesterday!!
This one is so good!
Nice! I was wondering about this a lot so much so that i was planning on doing my own research, this should help with getting started
YEEEHAW! Long waited one. Thx for your time and effort.
Absolutely, I'm very proud of the research in this one!
@@madelinejameswrites it's so good, ive done a geosciences PhD but this video is something im going to use as a reference now
@@dalellll oh wow! That's incredible!
32 minutes in - are you sitting on a yoga ball? But OMG such detail. It feels like a university-level geology course! Very cool!!!
Just standing haha!
I LOVE ROCKS!!!!
ME TOO!
Hell yes
Are you going to make videos about speculative biology, or is it out of the theme of the series?
That's not part of the current plan!
Check out Biblaridion's "Alien Biosphere" series
@@nathnlturner68 thanks!
At 34:20 you say that shallower mountain ranges have andesitic rock, but in the map you show it looks like the shallow ones only have rhyolitic rock, whereas the older ones have andesitic rock in addition to rhyolitic rock, so I'm confused as to what I'm supposed to do. In general, the igneous section of the mapping part of this video is *really* confusing, as is that part of the text guide. As far as I understand the process is as follows:
* make some LIPs at past hot spots and ridges, and make most of them basaltic, with a couple granitic
* make some more LIPs around present hot spots and mountain ridges, and make these all basaltic
* make some more LIPs around subduction zones and island arcs(maybe only non-hot spot ones?), and make these all andesitic
* make some more LIPs around present hot spots, and make these all rhyolitic
* on all remaining mountain ranges, past or present, add andesitic rock(or rhyolitic based on the map, which makes more sense), alongside rhyolitic rock(or andesitic based on the map) on older mountain ranges
* on past mountain ranges, add basaltic rock
but I'm really uncertain, could you clarify what you mean here?
I think part of the confusion might be the LIPs vs other igneous rocks. So there are a few stages. First do 2/3rd of your LIPs, then the remaining 1/3 of your lips section, and then add in general igneous rock based off the general sections. The NW most subduction mountain range at the top of that continent is the most shallow (so has the highest amount of andesitic rock. The one on the West coast of that range is a bit older but has a bit of andesitic as well since it's relatively shallow ish. Does that help?
@@madelinejameswrites Yes, that does make more sense. I think I got confused because the mountain range on the northern continent looks pretty shallow, but is all rhyolitic, but I guess the pointiness of the mountains on the map actually has nothing to do with the height of the mountain range. Thank you so much for responding!
@@madelinejameswrites Sorry, but I'm confused again. In the mountain ranges with andesitic rocks, you have the andesitic rocks closer to the center of the mountain range, where they would be steeper. So, like, is it the case that only shallow mountain ranges get andesitic rocks, but they get them in the steeper parts?