This Supercontinent Will Change the Face of Earth
As you know, all the continents are on Earth. Have different climates, ecosystems and Cultures, but it wasn't always like this. In fact, this will also change in the Future, someday, our world will change.
Beyond recognition, all continents will Become one great land, what will it look like. Like, well, I won't be around for this but Let's find out shall we let's peek at On the world map, there are seven continents.
North and South America, Africa Australia Antarctica, Europe, and Asia. If you know these congrats, you still remember something from elementary school Now have you ever noticed that there Borders line up quite well with each.
Other, for example, South America and Africa looks just like two puzzle pieces. the scientist Alfred Wegener also noticed this back in the 1910s after Finding this out, he continued to Assemble the puzzle and notice that India and Madagascar line up with Africa Just as well, but that wasn't the only.
The strange thing about the world for An example, we found fossils of the same. ancient animals on completely different Continents now. How's that possible.
They couldn't have originated as a species in Japan and Central America at At The same time, that's just Preposterous a a Special word I like to deploy now and then Could some of them have crossed the Ocean, and that's unlikely unless there's some kind of Olympic swimmers, maybe There used to be some kind of natural.
A bridge between these continents but even Though so much time has passed, if it. Really existed. We would have found. traces of this bridge and what kind of Crazy Builder would build a road that. long There were a few other strange things.
For example, people found traces of the same mountains both in the U.S and in Scandinavia, what does it all mean ER thought hard about it, and then it. dawned on him a brilliant Discovery in 1912 he presented his idea to the world The general idea was that the continents.
Move like icebergs on the water. They're constantly converging and diverging now We know that he was 100 right but unfortunately, scientists at that time basically, pelted Wagoner with tomatoes He lacked data and couldn't explain.
Exactly how these plates move Nevertheless, Wagoner didn't give up he wrote a book called the origin of continents, and finally, in the 1930s the Geologist Arthur Holmes filled in the Blanks and Wagoner's Theory.
Finally the World, ah, wait, we'll have to wait for another. a couple of decades until the world Realizes that this is true, people are Kind of slow, huh anyway, now we call it. the theory of continental drift by the Way on a grammatical note, when we travel on a continent away from the beach to Farther Inland, we say we're going Inland.
Rather than we're going incontinent big The difference doesn't mix them up, meanwhile. the continents on Earth move along the mantle by several inches per year every A few million years, they bump into each.
Other and create the so-called. supercontinent Supercontinents are, as you might have Guessed huge land masses that consist of several smaller continents We're still not sure how many of them. Existed before, but you've probably heard.
About one of them, it became the most. Famous because scientists believe that It was the only supercontinent in the history of the Earth It was named Pangea because of Afra Arctica.
Euro-Aussie ambrosia is too long to Remember, hey, just kidding, Pangea from Greek means the entire Earth is beautiful. Right this supercontinent exists for About 160 million years, but it broke up A very long time ago, that was why it's Hard to even imagine what Pangea looked Like and how many things have changed on it It was significantly different from our Present Earth, for example, there weren't Any mountain ranges that we have today The CO2 concentration was five times.
Higher than it is now, so the average The temperature was much warmer, it's Possible there wasn't even ice on Earth. only tropical forests on this Earth could Be a greenhouse and even the North Pole. could be covered with rainforest sounds like a pleasant place Dinosaurs witnessed all this, but we Didn't the first humans appear only?
Two million years ago, and the first Homo Sapiens, which are basically us, appeared. only 300 000 years ago, so unfortunately We, as a species, basically miss the cool. continental drift part but maybe one day We'll be able to see what it could look like.
Like You see, Pangea wasn't actually the first. Supercontinent, there were at least three. of them before it the oldest one, Valera existed about 3.6 billion years ago it became the grandma of all the continents We know today Svalbard included almost.
All of them, then it broke up like a A couple of bad days, and we got her. grandkids or kennel and Nuna and so on Eventually, it came to Pangea. Now we know That they form every 600 million years That's called the supercontinent cycle.
That means one day on Earth, everything. will merge together again, but when and How will it happen Well, first of all, we need to clarify. Something we have one supercontinent right basically, one huge island that This means the rest of the world is now a super Ocean, except for a couple of small Islands Maybe The Ocean at the time of Pangea was called xanthelasma and our cool The Mysterious Pacific Ocean is, actually.
Just its pathetic remnants of the other two big oceans, the Atlantic and Indian ones Were born when Pangea started to break into separate pieces so when these Oceans close completely, drying up new. Supercontinents are formed, and every.
The time they close gradually and very. Slowly it means the Pacific Ocean. It is shrinking in size right now. Yep it loses a few inches a year, boy I could Sure lose a few inches a year now. It's hard to imagine, but in the future it It will become an ordinary puddle. It will Disappear together with the Arctic Ocean And that's inevitable.
But when it happens, a new supercontinent. will appear Amnesia the birth of Amnesia was predicted by scientists from the University of New Curtin in Australia They did some very complex calculations. On a supercomputer, they uploaded the Continental movements of the last 300 million years or so, and then based on these calculations, the computer Predicted what the future holds for us We learned that one day the Americas.
Both South and North will collide with Asia and this Collision will create a new supercontinent with a very original Name, as already mentioned, the Pacific. Ocean will one day completely disappear. On the other hand, the Atlantic Ocean is growing right now, pushing both Americas To the West, so when Asia appears this.
The Ocean may become the new largest Ocean. In the world so, here's what it's going It looks like both Americas will collide. In East Asia, although it's hard to Predict some sources claim that Antarctica will eventually find its way.
To South America, Australia will also Play a huge role in this. It may connect America and Asia, so it won't be down. Under anymore, guess not, and if Humanity. Somehow still exists, which means that you.
Could hike from France to Australia or from South Africa to Argentina without Getting your feet wet, so here's a Solution if you can't travel right now Just wait 300 million years and know. That doesn't count the wait time getting.
Through airport security Scientists also used to think that. Amnesia would gather around the North. Pole creating a huge ice cap and cooling The planet, however, now thinks that This is very unlikely. It's probably going to be somewhere in the middle of The polls, however, this doesn't mean that.
The Earth will remain as friendly as it is. is right now The Earth of the future will be Radically different from what we know The sea level will become lower and the Amnesia will consist of vast, very arid. areas with high daily temperature ranges Yeah.
Yep, it's going to be super hot the Ecosystem will completely change but It's quite difficult to say what it will All lead to the more data we receive over time the more accurately we can Predict the future of our planet at the At The Moment.
All these are just theories and Scientists know they're still far from being proven, but even so, the results of The team's work is very impressive they Tell us a lot, not only about the future of the planet but also about its past Wouldn't it be great if humans could Live up to those times we could watch from distant space how our home planet Is changing. It's fascinating and a little bizarre at the same time.
Source : Bright Side