100 million years?
It will at least give me time to renew my passport!
It’s going to be a heck of a reunion: the Pangea supercontinent that broke up to create the atlas we know today will one day reform in the Northern hemisphere. That’s the conclusion reached by researchers at Yale University who, instead of looking at the past history of continental movements, have turned their attention to the …
I remember being taught that Europe was a separate continent from Asia. That somehow the Ural Mountains were the logical separator of Europe from Asia. At least this chart concedes that Europeans live on Eurasia.
Why wasn't it Asiope? That would be shorter.
At any rate Amasia will amaze-ya!
Probably a snappy title, i dunno "Tectonic" or something.
A CGI budget that comprises 99% of the film
A nice tag line like "When continents start getting frisky, pray that you're on top."
And maybe chuck in an annoying kid somewhere and a Feel-Good-Family-Message.
The Urals are a suture between two former continents when the former Siberian plate collided with Pangaea, so yep it is perfectly correct for geologists consider them to mark a continental divide as the geology on either side is so profoundly different.
But then, you could claim the same for most of Scotland and North Wales which are geologically much more similar to Greenland than they are to London.
The only really new bit in this work is the possible location of the new supercontinent (and it's a pretty safe bet none of us will be around to prove otherwise). That the Atlantic was widening, the Pacific floor being subducted and Africa and India burrowing into the belly of Eurasia is Geology 101. But the animations are nice.
albeit without the specifics listed in the article, that the continents would one day merge into what the scientists have long been calling "Pangaea Ultima".
http://www.scotese.com/earth.htm, look at the links for Future World, Future +100, and Future +250 - this site places Pangaea Ultima at around 250m.y. from now.
Possibly.
The Atlantic is a mature ocean, sooner or later it will begin to see subduction occurring around its margins (currently really only happening in the Caribbean margin, in South Sandwich and possibly getting started off Portugal.
If that happens, the UK might one day have some lovely volcanoes whose effect on house prices will really upset the Daily Mail.
This is indeed wonderful news for property speculators, real estate agents and bankers.
Does anyone know if any of the above will be issuing investment brochures offering pristine beach front homes, hotels and the like in this new global landscape.
Whilst I'm risk averse, given the potential profits and timeframes I'm confident many will sign up for these more futuristic of investment opportunities.
I predict that all humans on the earth will live in complete harmony, with no taxation, no crime, no need to work, plenty of food, everyone will drive perfectly, free petrol and sunshine every day.........
In 10 million years time!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh - and the internet will be totally free and the Eurozone will not be totally flawed and.......
You can predict anything you like if it's far enough ahead not to matter. Unfortunately, like listening to politicians - someone is going to take it seriously.