According to research carried out at Curtin University in Australia, led by professor and geophysicist Chuan Huang says that, especially the Pacific Ocean is showing signs of gradual shrinkage every year. According to research published in the scientific journal National Science Review, annually the Pacific gets 2.5 cm smaller.
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With the squeezing movement of tectonic plates to the west, every year the Pacific Ocean has been shrinking by 2.5 cm. But there is no need for euphoria, as the prediction for the emergence of a new continent or changes that will impact our lives, is only for more than 100 million years from now.
The continents that will come together due to the shrinking of the ocean are North America and Asia. This issue of the junction of continents has been debated by scientists for over ten years. Professor Huang and fellow researchers noted that the strength of the lithosphere, the Earth's most rigid layer, is the key point for the emergence of a supercontinent.
Amasia, the supercontinent
We all know that the Earth has been changing for thousands of years and that it will continue to change, mainly due to the movements of tectonic plates. In the very distant past, it is believed that there was a supercontinent called Pangea, a continent that was the junction of all the continents that we know today.
In 200 million years, this new supercontinent will be formed, with the junction of Asia and North America, and scientists have already called a name for it, and it is called Amasia.
“Earth as we know it will be drastically different when Amasia forms. Sea levels are expected to be lower, and the vast interior of the supercontinent will be very arid with high daily temperatures.” said Professor Zheng-Xiang Li of Curtin University.
