I have now read the two-column that you added since my earlier visit to that entry.
The island, of course, sticks out. ;)
The rest of the details seem, to this untrained observer, to be within the envelope of "reasonably likely" given not just the areas that societies tend to find attractive, but the notions that storytellers have about the areas that societies would find attractive.
But there is one towering counterexample -- or so it seems. :o
Geographically, such a tower (ignoring the "Look at the size of that thing!" effect) could develop as the central core of lava in certain types of volcanic mountain building. After time, erosion removes the softer outer areas and leaves the lava column in the center. Devils Tower is a famous example of this.
Perhaps getting a supercopter to move your tower to the center of a nearby ancient crater might get you comfortably away from that spike in the comparison graphs. ;)
Re: Edits, part 1
The island, of course, sticks out. ;)
The rest of the details seem, to this untrained observer, to be within the envelope of "reasonably likely" given not just the areas that societies tend to find attractive, but the notions that storytellers have about the areas that societies would find attractive.
But there is one towering counterexample -- or so it seems. :o
Geographically, such a tower (ignoring the "Look at the size of that thing!" effect) could develop as the central core of lava in certain types of volcanic mountain building. After time, erosion removes the softer outer areas and leaves the lava column in the center. Devils Tower is a famous example of this.
Perhaps getting a supercopter to move your tower to the center of a nearby ancient crater might get you comfortably away from that spike in the comparison graphs. ;)
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