Supertides Are Pushing All of Earth's Continents Together Once More

[sharpiefan]

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Earth's crust is made up of fractured slabs of rock, like a broken shell on an egg. These plates move around at speeds of about 5 centimetres (2 inches) per year - and eventually this movement brings all the continents together and form what is known as a supercontinent.

The last supercontinent on Earth was Pangaea, which existed between 300-180 million years ago.

This collection and dispersion of the continents is known as a supercontinent cycle, and the world now is 180 million years into the current cycle.

It is predicted that the next supercontinent will form in about 250 million years, when the Atlantic and Pacific oceans both close and a new ocean forms where the large Asian plate splits.

Because the plates move around, ocean basins change their shape and size. For example, the Atlantic is currently expanding at about the rate your fingernails grow (a couple of centimetres per year), whereas the Pacific is slowly closing.

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[skuthorp]

Australia is pushing north and rotating to the west, and quite quickly. It is reckoned the continent will eventually stick itself to China.
"Australia is not quite where you think it is. The continent has shifted by 4.9 feet since the last adjustment was made to GPS coordinates in 1994, reports the New York Times."

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/...inental-drift/

Our attachment to China in a political and trade sense will happen much earlier.

[Osborne Russell]

Continents are not pushed. Plates are pushed, and pulled.

[ron ll]

Good. It’ll save on plane fares.

[skuthorp]

But I don't want to go to China…..

[sharpiefan]

Continents are not pushed. Plates are pushed, and pulled.

The first paragraph:

Earth's crust is made up of fractured slabs of rock, like a broken shell on an egg. These plates move around at speeds of about 5 centimetres (2 inches) per year - and eventually this movement brings all the continents together and form what is known as a supercontinent.

[TomF]

So many threats to investing in waterfront property.

[Todd D]

My main concern is that subduction will start along the Atlantic coast of North America and I will end up with a volcano in my back yard, not to mention the earthquakes.

[TomF]

Always with the NIMBY. Somebody has to have the volcanoes...

[Peerie Maa]

Real click bait headline. Totally has the cart before the horse.

[Peerie Maa]

It looks as though Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador will be the first to go.

Gros Morne is going to get a lot higher.

[TomF]

Thankfully, our species will have left it to the cockroaches to deal with.

[Steve McMahon]

So I should build in some anchor points on the house?

[TomF]

Have to be quite a bit more than code...

[Steve McMahon]

Have to be quite a bit more than code...

Code - ha! The only building code here is: "please try to stay 5' away from your property lines, if you knows where they is."

[Osborne Russell]

The first paragraph:

Earth's crust is made up of fractured slabs of rock, like a broken shell on an egg. These plates move around at speeds of about 5 centimetres (2 inches) per year - and eventually this movement brings all the continents together and form what is known as a supercontinent.

No it doesn't. The former super-continent was pushed and pulled apart. Maybe another will be formed, maybe not.