Scientists Say New Supercontinent "Amasia" Will Form When Pacific Ocean Disappears
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As per the researchers, Australia is already drifting toward Asia at a rate of about 7 centimetres per year, while Eurasia and the Americas are moving at slower rates toward the Pacific Ocean.
Over the next 200 to 300 million years, the Arctic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea will disappear, and Asia will crash into the Americas forming a new supercontinent called Amasia, scientists have said.
Researchers at Curtin University in Australia and Peking University in China stated that the Pacific Ocean is slowly but consistently shrinking by around one inch every year. Therefore, at some point - probably within 200 million to 300 million years - they believe that the Earth's landmasses will come together and the Americas and Asia will collide to create a new supercontinent: Amasia.
"Over the past two billion years, Earth's continents have collided together to form a supercontinent every 600 million years, known as the supercontinent cycle. This means that the current continents are due to come together again in a couple of hundred of million years' time," said Dr Chuan Huang, lead author of a study published in the journal National Science Review.
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