On this pictures you can see how our planet look like in past and what it might look like far into the future...
We are entering a new phase of continental collision that will ultimately result in the formation of a new Pangea supercontinent in the future. Global climate is warming because we are leaving an Ice Age and because we are adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
If we continue present-day plate motions the Atlantic will widen, Africa will collide with Europe closingthe Mediterranean, Australia will collide with S.E. Asia, and California will slide northward up the coast to Alaska.
New subduction zones along the eastern coasts of North America and South America will begin to consume the ocean floor separating North America from Africa. About 100 million years from now the present-day Mid-Atlantic Ridge will be subducted and the continents will come closer together.
The next Pangea, "Pangea Ultima" will form as a result of the subduction of the ocean floor of the North and South Atlantic beneath eastern North America and South America. This supercontinent will have a small ocean basin trapped at its center.


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Really cool... Pangaea Ultima is right around the time period our sun is set to burnup its remaining fuel.
Hey Rick... where did you come up with that figure. It's only off by about five billion years, give or take a few hundred million. Two hundred fifty million hardly puts a good dent in that.
Fascinating maps, however. Considering the current state of our ignorance, though, they probably have little to do with what Earth will actually look like two hundred fifty megayears hence but they're an interesting springboard for thought.
wow well this guys a lowlife that stole this from a different website incase ur wondering where he got it from..
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