Our 4.54 billion-year-old planet, Earth, continues to evolve and change shape every day. Hundreds of millions of years ago, the Earth consisted of a single continent called ‘Pangea’, while this continent was disintegrated over time and eventually the Earth reached its present form.
Well, what will replace today’s oceans and continents in the future in our world, which is known to form a supercontinent every 600 million years? The scientists who pursued this question ran a simulation with the help of supercomputers and gave the answer to the question.
This is how the Earth might change in 300 million years:
According to the information scientists got from the simulation, 300 million years from now, there will be no such thing as the Pacific Ocean. Today, the ocean, which continues to shrink by a few centimeters every year, will be replaced by the continents of North America and Asia.
This new ‘supercontinent’, which will be formed by the union of the North American and Asian continents, will actually be the continent that has been put forward as a theory for a long time: Amasya (Amasia). On the other hand, scientists previously thought that with the formation of this continent, not the Pacific, but the Caribbean Sea or the Atlantic Ocean would disappear. (Amasya is a word formed as a result of the combination of the names of America and Asia)
In addition, scientists suggested that when the new continent was formed, the sea level would be lower than today and the new supercontinent would have very high temperatures. Of course, this simulation and the results obtained will continue to exist as a theory for now.
The research was published in the National Science Review.
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