Pacific Ocean Set To Make Way For World’s Next Supercontinent

A possible Amasia configuration 280 Myr into the future. Credit: Curtin University

 A new study has found that the world’s next supercontinent, Amasia, will most likely form when the Pacific Ocean closes in 200 to 300 million years.

Researchers from the Curtin University used a supercomputer to simulate how supercontinent forms and found that because the Earth has been cooling for billions of years, the thickness and strength of the plates under the oceans reduce with time, making it difficult for the next supercontinent to assemble by closing the “young” oceans, such as the Atlantic or Indian oceans.

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