When I say Mordoresque I mean Mordor, Fire and Brimstone Hell, Muspellheim, Shadow Lands and so on.
In my medieval-themed non-Earth setting, an epic meteor hit the planet 50 millions years ago.
Could a meteor strike into a planet so deep that it leaves a crater that exposes the liquid magma to the surface of the planet? There is another thing to add, the radius of the meteor hit several volcanoes that existed before the meteor impact. This crater is of colossal proportions. It is the size of Switzerland.
Like in deserts, plants cannot grow in this crater because its too hot.
I am imagining this crater to have black soil, lakes of magma and some volcanoes.
The liquid magma is always exposed to the surface, but I wonder will the magma that comes in contact with the planet's surface be cooled after 50 million years like lava and turn into solid state, or will the magma lakes in that crater always be
lakes of forever-burning lava since the meteor made a crater so deep into the planet's "yolk".
In my medieval-themed non-Earth setting, an epic meteor hit the planet 50 millions years ago.
Could a meteor strike into a planet so deep that it leaves a crater that exposes the liquid magma to the surface of the planet? There is another thing to add, the radius of the meteor hit several volcanoes that existed before the meteor impact. This crater is of colossal proportions. It is the size of Switzerland.
Like in deserts, plants cannot grow in this crater because its too hot.
I am imagining this crater to have black soil, lakes of magma and some volcanoes.
The liquid magma is always exposed to the surface, but I wonder will the magma that comes in contact with the planet's surface be cooled after 50 million years like lava and turn into solid state, or will the magma lakes in that crater always be
lakes of forever-burning lava since the meteor made a crater so deep into the planet's "yolk".
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