One of the (many) things that fascinate me about glaciers is they are crafted of ice and snow, which are usually transient, yet glaciers are semi-permanent entities.
The above is a glacier located in Iceland that was surrounded by greenish grass when we saw it.
Snow and ice usually melts and goes away. Especially in warmer part of the planets. It isn’t designed to stick around. We expect it to disappear.
Yet glaciers have survived for hundreds of thousands of years. Some glacier ice in Antarctica is almost a million years old. And if human activity hadn’t warmed the planet so dang much, glaciers would have survived for hundreds of thousands of years more.
What elements of your fictional world are transient? What elements are permanent? And are there some elements that we think SHOULD be transient yet are permanent?
