Today, the plates under our feet are still in constant motion. Although their speed is as slow as the growth rate of your fingernails, if accumulated over tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years, some plates will eventually meet one day. Based on the earth's past history, perhaps 50 million or 200 million years later, most of the continents on the earth today will eventually reunite to form a new supercontinent, which scientists call the "Eurasian continent."
There are many different understandings about the future "Eurasian continent". The "introverted" view holds that the "inland sea" between continents will now stop expanding (such as the Atlantic Ocean today), and the separation of continents will stop and reunite and eventually come together, with its center, like the center of the Pan-continent, located in today's central Africa. The "outward-looking" view holds that the "inner sea" between continents will continue to expand, the continents will continue to separate, and eventually the "outer sea" will disappear, and the continents will gather on the other side of the earth to form a new "Eurasian continent", with its center located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. There are also latest research results that point out that in the next two to three hundred million years, all continents on the earth will converge north, forming a new "Eurasian continent" in today's Arctic region. First, the Caribbean Sea will disappear and North and South America will merge. Next, the new America will migrate north and collide with the Eurasian continent in the Arctic region, and the Arctic Ocean will disappear. Australia will move north until it connects with India. Whether Antarctica will join this "party" or remain alone in the Antarctic is still inconclusive.
Will new supercontinents emerge in the future?
This article focuses on the question of whether a new supercontinent will emerge in the future, pointing out that since the earth's plate has always been moving slowly at a speed similar to the growth of fingernails, after tens of millions to hundreds of millions of years of accumulation, most continents on the earth may reunite to form a new supercontinent called "America-Asia", and introduces three different views of the academic community on the formation and location of "America-Asia".
