Meet 'Amasia,' the Next Supercontinent

Science ^ | 2/8/12 | Sid Perkins

[JRios1968]

...most if not all of today's continents (brown fragments, depicted with current-day outlines) will assemble into a single landmass called Amasia...

Bush's Fault, of course

[UCANSEE2]

It always amazes me how they discovered the names of those things.

Well... they are on that map. How fortunate that the 'ancients' spoke English.

[UCANSEE2]

will assemble into a single landmass called Amasia (shown approximately 100 million years from now).

I would be willing to be the entire amount of the STIMULUS FUND that it doesn't happen.

[CtBigPat]

Now... if they can explain how the continents or islands, which sit on tectonic plates, can move when the tectonic plates themselves all butt up to one another, and interlock better than the pieces of a puzzle, then I am all ears.

First, the solid rock crust of the Earth is roughly comparable in thickness to the skin of an apple for scale. Second, the heat generated by radioactive elements in the Earths core cause the liquid rock of the mantle to circulate like a giant lava lamp, pushing around the continents.

[bgill]

America might not last past this next election yet they’re claiming the name will carry over in a million years?

[Wuli]

“Over the next few hundred million years, the Arctic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea will disappear, and Asia will crash into the Americas forming a supercontinent that will stretch across much of the Northern Hemisphere.”

Yes, “across much of the Northern Hemisphere”, and across very little of the Southern Hemisphere, in a formation that looks like an exaggeration of the current, northern-heavy distribution of land and southern-heavy distribution of the seas.

I wonder if geologists and geophysicists have considered and weighed in on any possible geophysical impact (the “wobble” for instance) due to the exaggerated distribution of land and seas between the two hemispheres - north and south. Or, maybe my thinking there is, or could be such a concern, just reflects my ignorance on the topic.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Thunder90.

• America and Eurasia 'to meet at north pole' (in 50-200 million years.)

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[Lazamataz]

Over the next few hundred million years, the Arctic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea will disappear, and Asia will crash into the Americas forming a supercontinent that will stretch across much of the Northern Hemisphere.

Okay. I'll wait.

[Silentgypsy]

Thank heavens we got the heads up soon enough to plan the party!

[SunkenCiv]

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Thanks LibWhacker. America and Eurasia 'to meet at north pole' (in 50-200 million years.) Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.