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The Pacific Ocean will disappear and another supercontinent will emerge. This awaits us in at least 200 million years.
Amasia — is a supercontinent which, according to the latest research, will be formed in about 300 million years in the place of the Pacific Ocean. How is this possible?
Between 300 and 180 million years ago, there was no Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas, Antarctica or Australia. Instead, there was one supercontinent, which we call today Pangea (Whole Earth). It included all the modern continental plates. It was divided into a northern part, Laurasia, and a southern part, Gondwana. It formed in the Carboniferous as a result of the collision of Gondwana with Euroamerica and the Siberian and Kazakh continents.
What is the supercontinental cycle?
It is a very remote period, preceding the creation of the first humans and predating even the dinosaurs. As early as 1915, geophysicist Alfred Wegener described the theory of the wandering of continents in one of his books. The scientist allowed later biologists to explain why related plants and animals could occur often separated by a large ocean, on two sides of the world.
The theory also allowed paleontologists to understand why fossils of a particular dinosaur could be found in both Africa and South…
