This Is What Earth Will Look Like in 100,000,000 AD

To map the supercontinent of the future, geologists first had to solve a vexing magnetic riddle.


By Paul Raeburn
Aug 6, 2012 5:00 AMNov 12, 2019 5:33 AM
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Most of today's continents (left) will migrate toward the North Pole and collide to form a new landmass called Amasia (right). | <a href="http://trevorjohnston.com">trevorjohnston.com</a>

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Earth’s modern continents are the fragments of a single, 300-million-year-old supercontinent called Pangaea. This vast landmass once rested on the equator, near where Africa is today. During the age of dinosaurs, tectonic forces slowly tore Pangaea apart. Now geologists predict those same forces will reassemble the pieces into a new supercontinent, named Amasia, about 100 million years in the future.

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