Browsing: Supercontinent

I’ve recently wrote a few post about tectonic plates, the latest being the one with the next supercontinent which will form some 100 million years from now – Amasia. After this, I’ve received a lot of questions about tectonic movements and how the surface of our planet chances in geologic time periods; seeing people interested […]

Based on how the tectonic plates are moving now, no later than one hundred million years, Asia and the Americas will merge into one huge supercontinent, named Amasia. Geophysicists have long theoretized this, but a team of researchers from Yale University offered a new view on how Amasia will be formed. Continental drift Continental drift […]

Despite an evident contrast, geologists claim that the region of modern day El Paso, Texas was once attached to the now icy continent of Antarctica, in an effort to piece together the giant pieces of a puzzle that formed a pre-Pangaea supercontinent. “Most people are familiar with Pangaea,” said study co-author Staci Loewy, a geochemist […]