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
Over the next few hundred million years, the Arctic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea will disappear, and Asia will crash into the Americas forming a supercontinent that will stretch across much of the Northern Hemisphere.
