13 de fevereiro de 2012

Amasia - The Future Super Continent

Tectonic movements on the next 50 to 300 million years

On an article, published last week on Nature magazine, scientists say that on the next 50 to 200 million years all continents will be pushed against each other, forming a compact mass which will be in the origin of a new supercontinent.

300 million years ago, the last compact supercontinent Pangea was centered where West Africa is now.
After looking at the geology of mountain ranges around the world, geologists had assumed that the next supercontinent would form either in the same place as Pangaea, closing the Atlantic Ocean like an accordion, or on the other side of the world, in the middle of the current Pacific Ocean more here

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