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Anonymous at Mon, 8 Jul 2024 03:44:52 UTC No. 16272409
What would an island at this latitude in the middle of the Atlantic be like ecologically, climactically, and geologically? Also, would it have any big effects on Western European climate?
Anonymous at Mon, 8 Jul 2024 03:49:49 UTC No. 16272411
>>16272409
not doing your retarded homework
Anonymous at Mon, 8 Jul 2024 03:57:14 UTC No. 16272419
>>16272411
how on earth would you think this is homework? have you been to school in the past 20 years?
Anonymous at Mon, 8 Jul 2024 05:33:01 UTC No. 16272505
>>16272409
that's the Azores, kek
Anonymous at Mon, 8 Jul 2024 07:09:37 UTC No. 16272549
>>16272505
yes, but slightly to the north!
Anonymous at Mon, 8 Jul 2024 07:17:18 UTC No. 16272554
>>16272409
Considering it's right between Britain and the Azores it would probably be a climate between Britain and the Azores.
It's smack dab in the channel of the Gulf stream so it'd be pretty mild.
Anonymous at Mon, 8 Jul 2024 07:51:33 UTC No. 16272569
Very good question. It's impossible for it to get immigration from American or European megafauna, but at the same time it'd be big enough to have hosted a native wildlife since the breakup of Laurasia.
My guess is it would have equivalents of Laurasiatheria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laur
>>16272419
Yep, he's a retard. School is about creating 100 IQ worker drones, not pondering interesting questions
Anonymous at Tue, 9 Jul 2024 17:55:56 UTC No. 16274526
>>16272409
ecologically, it would likely have species from much further south than you might expect. surface currents from the Gulf of Mexico take a nearly direct line to it. the westerlies would further bias the local species to North American native fauna/flora, and would provide a seaborne path for the infrequent but possible migration of small, driftable land animals from North America to Europe (but not vice versa except for birds and their seed-bearing poop).
climatologically, the island happens to be right in the region where Gulf Stream warm water current splits before forming the North Atlantic Deep Water off the east coast and tip of Greenland, as the deep dater formation step of the AMOC system in the Atlantic - this will likely make the island MUCH warmer and wetter than it would otherwise be at that lattitude (this is exactly the same reason why Ireland and the UK are so warm and wet, despite their lattitude), and potentially cause a cooling effect in Europe, maybe even as far south as the Iberian Peninsula, if it diverts the North Atlantic Deep Water return current to the east between itself and Europe. however, this is very hard to predict - if enough Gulf Stream warm surface water is diverted to the east before it forms the North Atlantic Deep Water and reenters the AMOC, it's even possible parts of Northern Europe would get slightly warmer. there's even an outside chance it might direct Gulf Stream warm water directly into the Arctic Ocean, which would do quite a number on Arctic sea ice and probably leave Northern Europe cooler and drier (Southern Europe's climate is dominated by the Mediterranean, so fairly isolated from the AMOC IIRC).
geologically, it would almost certainly be a large igneous province deposited on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge composed (almost entirely basalt), exactly as Iceland is. would require a local mantle plume/hotspot, and would almost certainly be highly volcanically active.