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World building: Day 4

In today's exercise, I'm to create a couple of climates and potential geological cataclysms that could shape those climates.

Podocarp forest
Also known as laurel forest
- Earthquakes in plenty, young geologically
- Slips and flooded valleys
- Windward slope of mountain range
- Wet forests

Located:
- on Western continental coasts between 35 and 50 degrees of latitude
- on western coasts of large islands between 25 and 40 degrees of latitude
- humid montaine regions of tropics
- eastern margin of continents between 25 and 35 degrees of latitude

Semi-arid regions
Not true desert
- Ash from volcanoes elsewhere
- Meteorite
- Cliff edge
- Flash flood
- Wind
- Leeward side of mountain range (orographic lift)
- Dust storms and sand storms
- Tessellated mosaic covering ground

Mountain masses between above regions
- alpine
- joining of two continental plates
- earthquakes and geothermal activity
- wet on western side, dry on eastern
- remodelled by ice ages as well as quakes
- wetlands
- snow, ice, avalanches
- passes

Continental map
Planet spin same direction as earth
Podocarp forest around 35 degrees of latitude, semi-arid region slightly closer towards equator with alpine ranges between