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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aristotle" data-source="post: 2334659" data-attributes="member: 5885">okay then... I was working on a planet with no true oceans. A planet that was mostly land. I was thinking of making it small, say about the size of mars, so it would have roughly the same land surface area as the Earth. My concern was that I didn't want it to be a desert world or an ice ball, and those seem to be the most likely choices for the planet I am describing. I was hoping to find some science to explain why my world is the way it is. Of course the science doesn't need to be overly deep. It's a fantasy world and I'm fine with "it's magic" being the final verdict. I was looking at including 4 primary biomes (there would be rivers, forests, and such in each as appropriate). There would be a large desert area with no seasonal change other than hot days and cold nights. I was guessing the best place for this was a pole (likely leaning towards the sun). There would be a vast grassland/savannah dominating a large portion of the world. It would be covered in seas of grass from two to six feet tall. It would be warm year round, with an annual wet season (possibly a cascading wet season since the area is so big?) that floods the lower plains. Then there would be a swamp area (swamps, bogs, everglades, or whatever) with a great deal of shallow standing water. And lastly there would be a large forbidding rainforest region. It would be warm year round with a short season of high heat. It would be littered with lakes and streams fed by near continuous rainfall.  Mountains and canyons are common throughout all 4 areas. Earthquakes are frequent and volcanic activity is fairly regular in remote locations. Rivers, some much larger than anything we have on Earth, can be found in all areas. There are many small and large rivers in and near the jungle and swamp areas. Fewer in the grasslands (except during the wet season), and only a couple in the desert. I figure many of them start in the mountains and the rainforest, and most of that water makes it's way to the swamp region, collecting minerals and becoming more and more brackish as it goes until it finally becomes unusable near the swamp area. Uh... that's mostly it.</blockquote>

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