Meet 'Amasia,' the Next
Supercontinent
by Sid Perkins on 8 February 2012, 3:33 PM | 21 Comments
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No boats required. In the distant future, most
if not all of today's continents (brown fragments, depicted with current-day
outlines) will assemble into a single landmass called Amasia (shown
approximately 100 million years from now).
Credit: Adapted from Mitchell et al., Nature
(2012)
Over the next few hundred million years, the Arctic Ocean and the Caribbean
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