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This is an image derived from a colossal blooming solar flare, on the Sun's surface. I don't think geological insight is so necessary here. Just use your imaginations on how it formed.

This is just a random map. No geological insight into this one. Believe it or not, it was derived from the homepage. Extremely modified of course, mostly by warping functions and a little bit of use of the 'Spraypaint' function. Enjoy if you want, but I'm alright with it if you don't, I'm not that fond of this map.

Welcome to the David Traps, a coastal region in the extremely far future. The region is eroded, on the coastline of the Russian continent at it's location 1 billion years from now, in a colossal supercontinent. The region is elevated, higher than usual, a sign that the entire continent is about to be hit by the biggest volcanic eruption in 1.2 billion years, a large igneous province with a colossal volume of 14 million cubic kilometers. The insulating supercontinent is holding in massive amounts of heat in the hemisphere covered by the supercontinent. This trapped, concentrated heat melts mantle rock in the lower mantle, triggering the formation of a 'mantle plume' where the superheated, now liquid, rock rises in a, well, plume. It billows up and hits the crust, uplifting the land, and we have this. The plume is about to burst through, and it will erupt molten lava for eons, ten thousand human lifetimes. The seas will rise as the carbon dioxide gas heats the planet, and the world will cool dramatically as sulphuric acid takes over and triggers a colossal ice age. The David Traps is what will be left, named after my father as a birthday present. This map is an insignificant fraction of the true scale of the David Traps. The map covers 2500 square kilometers, where the large igneous province will create a step[trap- trapp, Swedish for stair, common landscape feature in large igneous provinces]-covered almost flat deposit of basalt taking up over 10 million square kilometers. The David Traps L.I.P hasn't erupted yet, but it is imminent. This is a 50 kilometer by 50 kilometer, greyscale, in-game-rendered map. Again, SC4Terraformer hasn't been able to function yet. I'm sorry it could not be the way most maps are. Enjoy! I fell in love with this map even before the render, and I dearly hope you love it like I do! And one more thing; if you didn't figure it out, this is the first map a three-part series of maps. Expect the post-eruption version soon!

This region is a river valley region 16 kilometers wide and 80 kilometers long. It stretches from what would be it's 'glacial' origins in the high mountains to down past even the delta, into an ocean, playing host to several islands. A challenge is available in the mountain region, an extremely easy terrain for most of the valley, small cities can be built on the islands, or even new islands could rise from the sea by your own hand. This is a greyscale map region. I'm sorry, but SC4Terraformer does not work on Mac. If I ever get to use it, I will have figured out how to use it on Vista [ParallelsDesktop]. Until then, it has to be a greyscale file. Again, sorry. I really hope that everyone will enjoy this region. Please do, gotta go!

[Extreme erosion manually added in an additional version, due to larger terrain scales] I had uploaded the true-scale version of this 7-stage region several weeks ago, and it was one of the most poorly rated in STEX history. Current evidence suggests that the file was corrupt, or wasn't uploaded properly. So, it's re-uploaded, with an 'extra erosion' version packed in. You must remember, you have to press 'download' and open up the zip folder and subfolders inside. The 7-map sequence comes in two sets, each with a working configuration file. One sequence is just at accurate size, at 3x the size of the 'small' version. The other is also 3x the size, but has a larger amount of erosion, and is marked as such. The config for the eroded folder is not there as it can be copied from the other folder, they are the same configuration, and the first stage is removed from the eroded folder because it is no different from the first stage from the other folder.