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Pangea Ultima
By adam.cozens | October 18, 2009
Pangea has always been one of my favorite things about earth. The idea that a couple of years back, all of the earths continents were one, large connected landmass that through the global shift of plate tectonics, shook apart and created our modern day planet. That previous sentence may have numerous discrepancies.
But NOW, according to some nerds over at some-notoriety-less acronym, in the next 250 million years (wake me up when we get there…) we may all get to see it again, in Pangea: II!
OK, well they are actually calling in “Pangea Ultima” but the opportunity to take a family road-trip from Seattle to Capetown would be almost too awesome to pass up.
My biggest problem with the global realignment is that Australia would be relegated to hanging out with Antarctica which would NOT be cool.
Stupid Antarctica…
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:37 pm
i want tokno how would it be to live in Pangaea
November 25th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
coolio!
November 28th, 2009 at 3:16 am
the erth was describing a dangerous orbit then the builders of the planet created the cracks in the continents to balance. when continents migrating orbit is ok. ok?
January 13th, 2010 at 8:38 pm
um this doesnt really look like ultima.. looks like normal pangea if you ask me. the continents should continue around the earth until they hit again on the other side right? why is it that they instead contracted and moved back where they kind of were in original pangea. shouldnt north america be on the other side of eurasia? also keep in mind that more islands/continents could still be made from the movement over such time. some from the collision of plates and some from the reason why we have plates that move. the energy from inside earth is trying to escape which split the plates and separated the land, this can create more land masses like hawaii. If the plates end up colliding and coming together it may trap more energy and create new plates by splitting the old ones making room for the continents to go different directions again (and look different) in which case it probably wont ever happen because the reason it split in the first place may be the reason it keeps them apart forever.
/thoughts
February 3rd, 2010 at 6:42 pm
this is the trueth. now even the science tist are thinking that this will happen. but pangia ultima is when the pacific ocean becomes the mega ocean. but now scenctist think that at the rate the atlantic ocean is growing we will not have a Pangia altima but a Amaisa will happen.(this is when the atlantic ocean is bigger than the pacific ocean in about 250 ma’s.
February 3rd, 2010 at 8:07 pm
what would life be like now if pangea never broke up?
February 4th, 2010 at 8:12 pm
you gouys should really learn how to spell :p
April 16th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
this tells me nothing
April 16th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
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