"Amasia, the new continent." Topic

How it possible change politic coalitions or conflicts the new continent in the far future?

"It'll be a geological showdown for the ages, with North America, South America, Europe and Asia colliding head-on over the North Pole to create a supercontinent called Amasia.

Unfortunately, nobody we know will be around to watch the collision, which won't happen for another 50 million years or more. But it's still fun to imagine.

"The snapshot that is the present is smack-dab in the middle of what we call the supercontinent cycles," said geologist Ross Mitchell of Yale University, lead author of a Feb. 8 Nature prediction of supercontinental trajectories. "We're part of something larger, both in the past and into the future."

Mitchell's group isn't the first to say that Amasia will form, but geologists differ on where exactly this will happen.

Some think that supercontinents break up, drift apart, and gather again in the same place. They say Amasia will swallow the Atlantic and center itself over present-day Africa, at the heart of Pangea, the last supercontinent, which broke up 250 million years ago.

Other geologists believe supercontinents break up, drift apart, and gather again on the other side of Earth. This would place Amasia somewhere between Hawaii and Fiji, and swallow the Pacific.

Mitchell's group, however, places Amasia in the Arctic. Their conclusion is based on records of Earth's magnetic field as contained in rocks dating back 800 million years to Rodinia, the supercontinent that preceded Pangea.

According to their interpretation, the geomagnetic record only makes sense if supercontinents rotate on their axes at a 90 degree angle, which would send Amasia into an unexpected polar location.

Given that their data spans 800 million years yet contains only 2 examples of supercontinental rotation, this will be a hard hypothesis to test. Whether or not it holds up, however, the research should illuminate a question even more fundamental than where supercontinents will gather.

"One of the larger questions in research is, ‘Why does a supercontinent even break apart?"

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So, you can drive a tank (or the vehicle of that Era) from Washington to Moscou by a road.
Much more possible wargames in Amasia!.

Amicalement
Armand

Much more possible wargames in Amasia!.

If you're prepared to wait 50 million years …

So, you can drive a tank (or the vehicle of that Era) from Washington to Moscou by a road.

Through the Arctic Circle? Would be one hell of a drive.

(Goodbye, Italy!)

This proposed continent has been around for years, but called Pangea Ultima. There has been a lot of talk in the news about this, but it's not really a new idea. See here for some maps: scotese.com/earth.htm

PS, if you want to read up on it, the hypothesis that supercontinents form and then rift apart on ~500 million year time scales is called the Wilson Cycle.

There is only the little matter of the Bering Straight to keep you from driving from Washington to Moscow *now*.

Wow!. Now I take note that from here, we could travel by car to Bangkok!.

scotese.com/future2.htm

Thanks for the info RexMcl!.

Amicalement
Armand

we could travel by car to Bangkok!

As Farstar said, it's only the Bering Straits that stops you doing that now.

Big deal.

By the time that happens, the human race will be long gone, evolved into another life form, or abandoned Earth and colonize the stars … Or all three …

Or we could be right here, arguing about where Historicon will be located.

But most important--How does Bongolesia stand in this new alignment of powers and land-masses?
The world wonders.