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msnbc.com News— Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A new computer model suggests that the Arctic Ocean and Caribbean Sea will be among the first things to go when the next supercontinent is formed.
Next supercontinent will amaze you
Wed Feb 8, 2012 1:24 PM EST
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A new computer model suggests that the Arctic Ocean and Caribbean Sea will be among the first things to go when the next supercontinent is formed.
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India finally breaks off of the continent and floats off into the sea,..
#1 - Wed Feb 8, 2012 8:45 PM ESTWell, fair is fair as India is currently crashing into the larger Asia, creating the Himalayas.
One thing that is counter-intuitive is the gathering of the plates at the north pole. I would tend to believe that the centrifugal force created by the Earth's rotation would argue the gathering of the continents closer to the equator.
The poles are already flattened by approximately 38 miles out of round.
They started at the South Pole, flew out the the Meridian and came crashing into the North Pole. Perhaps later they will bounce back to the South Pole, again,..
I would say I'm not too far from being wrong. However, it looks as though they migrate more to the South Pole first, before moving on to the North.
America and Eurasia 'to meet at north pole'
Geologists believe that, over billions of years, these shifting plates have driven the continents together periodically, creating the hypothesised supercontinents of Nuna 1.8 billion years ago, Rodinia a billion years ago, and then Pangaea 300 million years ago.
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